Post Date November, 16 2024
Vulvitis is a common gynecological disease that can have an impact on patients' daily life and work, especially on their physical harm. We should pay attention to it and take reasonable prevention measures from multiple aspects.
Does vulvitis affect fertility
Vulvitis can affect sexual intercourse and create an environment in the vagina that is not conducive to sperm survival. In patients with severe vulvitis, a large number of white blood cells in sexual secretions can phagocytize sperm, consume energy substances in semen, reduce sperm motility, shorten the survival time of sperm, leading to lower pregnancy rate.
Pregnant women have certain changes in their physical constitution and a high probability of contracting bacteria. Infection with vulvitis during this period can affect the normal development of the fetus, leading to premature rupture of the fetal membrane, premature delivery, and infection with vulvitis bacteria when the child passes through the reproductive tract. Pregnant women must undergo timely examination and receive the best treatment to ensure the healthy development of their children.
Hazards of vulvitis
1. Impact on daily life: Severe inflammation and stimulation of the external genitalia can cause diseases such as genital warts, genital herpes, gonorrhea, syphilis, trichomonas, and fungal infections, seriously affecting patients' lives and health.
2. Impact on sexual quality of life: Patients with acute inflammation may experience itching and burning sensation in the external genitalia, as well as varying degrees of swelling and congestion in the skin and mucous membranes of the external genitalia. In severe cases, it can also lead to erosion, ulcers, or large eczema, accompanied by painful urination and sexual intercourse, which affects the quality of sexual life.
3. Impact on fertility: If patients with vulvitis are not treated in a timely manner, it can lead to the spread of inflammation and secondary infection, and it can affect the environmental balance in the vagina, thereby affecting the survival rate of sperm. When the condition is serious, the patient's secretion contains a large number of white blood cells, which can engulf sperm, reduce sperm motility, shorten the survival time of sperm, etc., thus affecting women's fertility to some extent.
4. Transmission to sexual partners: In vulvitis, fungal vulvitis and trichomoniasis vulvitis are highly contagious, especially through sexual transmission. If a patient engages in sexual activity without a cure, their sexual partner has a 50% chance of being infected. Therefore, if a female friend suffers from vulvitis, it is necessary to treat it in a timely manner. It is best to treat both husband and wife at the same time to avoid sexual cross infection, which cannot be completely cured.
Causes of vulvitis
1. Vaginal secretion stimulation: When there is an increase in vaginal secretion or stimulation of menstrual blood or menstrual pads, especially in cases of cervicitis and various vaginitis, the secretion increases and flows into the external genitalia, leading to varying degrees of vulvitis.
2. Local skin uncleanness: The skin of the external genitalia is soaked in menstrual blood, vaginal secretions, and even urine, feces, and sweat, causing chronic inflammation of the local skin, leading to vulvitis.
3. Fungal vaginitis: itching of the external genitalia and vagina, redness of the external genitalia, bean residue like leukorrhea, unpleasant odor, and eczematous changes after scraping of the external genitalia. Therefore, it is important for women to seek medical attention promptly if they experience symptoms such as itching.
4. Mixed infection: multiple stimuli often cause mixed infection, and the pathogens are usually staphylococcus, streptococcus, and Escherichia coli.
5. Other reasons: Vulvitis may not necessarily be unhygienic. Some women have Candida parasites in their bodies, and there is usually no disharmony. However, when the overall or local immune system of the vagina decreases, Candida will multiply in large numbers, causing symptoms. Common reasons include pregnancy, use of antibiotics, obesity, wearing tight synthetic underwear, overwork, and tension.
Prevention of vulvitis
1. The correct method for cleaning the external genitalia: to prevent vulvitis, women should clean the external genitalia every day, change their pants, and use towels exclusively. After cleaning and changing the towels and pants every day, heat or boil them with hot water for more than 30 minutes, remove them and expose them, and dry them in the shade
2. Pay attention to personal hygiene: keep the external genitalia clean and dry, replace underwear, use specialized tools for external genitalia, and use hot water to wash underwear, towels, and bowls. Of course, urging husbands to also pay attention to hygiene.
3. Cannot blindly use washing liquids and drugs: Use drugs to treat vulvar inflammation, but this type of patient lacks hygiene knowledge and believes that long-term drug washing of the vulva is health care, no longer suffering from vulvitis, and long-term drug stimulation of the skin makes the vulva even more uncomfortable.
4. Do not use sanitary pads too much: Patients mistakenly believe that sanitary pads are hygienic and do not change their pants or wash their genitals after long-term use. In fact, they often diagnose and treat vulvitis due to the above reasons, without knowing the cause of the onset. For such patients, we need to understand that the breathability of the pad is poor, and long-term use of local moisture is also a cause of inflammation, especially daily use is more unfavorable.
5. Enhance one's own resistance: strengthen nutrition, exercise the body, improve the body's immunity, and reduce the chance of opportunistic pathogens. Eliminate bad habits, actively participate in healthy entertainment activities, and effectively prevent vulvitis.
6. Pay attention to diet: Avoid spicy and seafood foods, as seafood can also cause vaginal infections.
7. Eliminate contact with sources of infection: Women who love swimming should pay attention to hygiene, promote showering, and avoid using towels, pants, bowls, etc. to each other. When going to public places such as public toilets, swimming pools, and bathrooms, attention should be paid to preventing cross infection.
