Vulvit - inflammatory disease of the external genital organs of a woman (vulva). In most cases, the inflammatory process affects only the mucous membrane of the external genital organs. Vulvit can develop as an independent disease, and may arise as a complication of other diseases.
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Vulvit – Inflammatory disease of the outdoor genital organs of women (vulva). Most often, inflammation covers the area around the entrance to the vagina, the lower departments of small and large sexes, sometimes spreads above and affects all their inner surface, reaching the clitoris. In exceptional cases, the region of inflammation can go to the inguinal folds and even the inner surface of the hips.
In most cases, the inflammatory process affects only the mucous membrane of the external genital organs. In more serious cases, the infection proceeds to subcutaneous fatty tissue and then the disease takes a more severe temperature with high temperature, common malaise, weakness, expressed painful sensations.
Causes of vulvita
Vulvit can develop as an independent disease, that is, primary, and may arise as a complication of other diseases.
Vulvit, as an independent disease, may appear as a result of injury of soft gentle extracurricular tissues of vulva, with a non-accurant implementation of hygienic procedures and sexual intercourse, with chemical preparations and drugs, when exposed to high temperatures. Damage to the mucosa can occur when combing this area due to itching, which accompanies some diseases. This, for example, diabetes, Helminti defeat, urinary incontinence, various skin and allergic diseases. Traumatization of the mucosa opens «Entrance doors» For microorganisms that can cause inflammation.
Secondary vulvit, as a complication, occurs in the presence of inflammation in the overlying organs of the sexual system, that is, vagina, uterus and less frequently. At the same time, the selection of these organs go down to the vulva region. Accumulating here, they cause irritation and inflammation of mucouspicks. Especially often it happens when a woman does not pay attention to the hygiene of the external genital organs.
The probability of the development of inflammatory diseases of the vulva is especially great in women with reduced immunity. This happens with acute and chronic infections, diseases of the immune system and in the autumn-spring period.
The development of vulvite contributes to the use of close, especially synthetic linen.
Manifestations of vulvita
What is usually worried about the woman with this disease? When she can suspect vulvit?
First of all, this is a burning sensation and itching of external genital organs, especially intensifying after urination, as watering irritates inflamed fabrics. Sometimes itching and burning in motion is replaced by soreness. Often a woman worries discomfort when sex. There are discharges that can wear different character depending on the main pathogen. If the disease is caused by an intestinal wand, the release is liquid with an unpleasant odor, yellowish green, during staphylococcal lesions – dense, yellow-white.
Since the disease strikes outdoor genitals, a woman itself can see the swelling and redness of the mucous membrane.
The intensity of these manifestations depends on both the scale of inflammation and the possibility of the disease. If a woman has long been sick, does not appeal to the doctor, does not get the necessary treatment or is trying to cope with the disease independently, then vulvit can go into a chronic form. Then the manifestations of vulvite are worn out of erased character and less brings unpleasant sensations. A woman may seem at all that she is healthy, but in fact it is not. Often there are diseases of the disease, and the disease takes a long wave-like flow. Disease transition to chronic form makes it difficult for diagnosis and treatment.
So, if you have found the above symptoms, do not self-medicate, and faster go to the reception to the gynecologist. It is absolutely necessary for proper diagnosis, determining the causative agent of the disease, the selection of adequate treatment and speedy recovery.
Diagnosis of vulvita
Diagnostics begins with a survey of the patient. You must describe your feelings, without hiding from the doctor. You came to him for help! And he should know everything: and when the disease began, and that this was preceded, and what diseases you suffer, and even what lingerie you prefer to wear. All this will help partially decide on the cause of your illness.
Then follows the gynecological examination. Already immediately, when examining outdoor genital organs, the doctor will see all the manifestations of pathology. When inspection in the mirrors, take the selection from the cervix to determine whether the result is the result of inflammation of the internal genital organs. Next, the doctor will hold a two-handed study of the abodes of the small pelvis: uterus and appendages. This will help to understand if they are not involved in the inflammatory process.
In order to more accurately determine the causative agent of infection and its sensitivity to antibacterial therapy, the gynecologist will produce bacterial seals to the nutrient medium. The result of the scrap from the urethra will exclude the defeat of the lower departments of the urinary system. In addition, sometimes the pathogens of some infections, in particular gonorrhea, trichomoniasis, it is easier to detect exactly here. The materials taken will be investigated in the laboratory, which will take several days.
Another method of diagnosing vulvit is colposcopy, which allows you to more clearly see the boundaries of inflammation, changes in the vascular pattern and fabric structure.
In addition, you will be prescribed a blood test, which allows to exclude diseases such as syphilis and HIV.
Treatment of vulvita
The doctor will then select and prescribe you the necessary treatment. It will certainly be comprehensive, including the use of local procedures and general. Be sure to carry out the treatment of concomitant diseases, against the background of which there is vulvit (diabetes mellitus, allergies, skin diseases, glides invasion). If necessary, the gynecologist will send you to the desired specialist.
In the treatment of vulvit, it is recommended to abstain from sex life. This is necessary in order to give a damaged mucosity to recover and, in addition, eliminate the possibility of attaching another pathogen.
With vulvite, as a rule, no antibiotic admission is required. If vulvit is a complication of inflammation of the internal genital organs, then you will receive antibiotics by the main disease. Inflammation of the same vulva requires only local treatment.
