What are the symptoms and effects of cervical erosion? What methods can be taken to prevent cervical erosion

Cervical erosion is a gynecological disease that troubles many female patients, and its harm is also obvious. After falling ill, attention should be paid to treatment and preventive work should be done in advance.

Symptoms of cervical erosion

1. Increased vaginal discharge: Increased vaginal discharge is the main symptom of this disease, usually presenting as milky white or light yellow purulent discharge, bloody or mixed with bloodline.

2. Vulval itching: Vulvovaginal itching and pain secondary to vulvitis and vaginitis due to increased stimulation of the vaginal discharge.

3. Lower abdominal and lumbosacral pain: When inflammation is severe, the uterosacral and main ligaments spread, and pelvic connective tissue inflammation is lacking, causing lower abdominal and lumbosacral pain, accompanied by a sense of falling.

4. Urinary frequency or difficulty urinating: When inflammation affects the trigone and surrounding bladder, urinary frequency or difficulty urinating.

5. Infertility: Thick vaginal discharge is not conducive to sperm penetration, and severe cervicitis may lead to infertility.

The impact of cervical erosion

1. Causing infertility: When cervical erosion occurs, especially in moderate to severe cases, cervical secretions significantly increase, with a sticky texture and a large number of white blood cells. Phagocytosis of sperm has a negative impact on sperm motility, hindering sperm entry into the uterine cavity, and affecting pregnancy.

2. Complication: Inflammation of other organs after cervical erosion. For example, the pathogen of cervical erosion can rise and cause inflammation of the periuterine ligaments and lymphatic vessels that cause endometritis. When the inflammation of chronic pelvic inflammatory disease affects the trigone of the bladder, it can cause diseases of the urinary system, causing symptoms such as painful urination, frequent urination, and difficulty urinating.

3. Long term stimulation of chronic inflammation can cause deeper diseases such as polyps, lacerations, ectropions, and cysts.

4. Carcinogenesis: In women with cervical erosion, the incidence of cervical cancer is nearly 10 times higher than in the general population. Under the stimulation of long-term chronic inflammation, atypical hyperplasia of the columnar epithelium in the cervical canal can occur. If not treated promptly and correctly, it will develop towards the direction of cervical precancerous lesions. Cervical erosion is always accompanied by HPV infection, which is one of the suspicious signals causing cervical cancer, and this development process usually takes 5-10 years.

Methods for preventing and treating cervical erosion

1. Maintain mental pleasure, strengthen exercise, and enhance disease resistance.

2. Contraceptive measures should be taken to avoid wounds caused by miscarriage and curettage.

3. Keep the external genitalia clean and can be rinsed with water. Do not rinse the perineum with various vaginal rinses every day to avoid damaging the normal pH of the vagina and causing bacterial infections and inflammation.