How to treat female cervical erosion? Check out some common problems of female cervical erosion

As women, we don’t know much about the cervix. Zhang Dikai said that the cervix is ​​located in the lower part of the uterus, is cone-shaped, 2.5-3 cm long, connected to the uterine body at the upper end, and extends deep into the vagina at the lower end. The cervix is ​​an important line of defense to prevent pathogenic microorganisms from entering the uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries. This line of defense is also particularly vulnerable to invasion by various pathogenic bacteria.

Question 1: If I pay attention to hygiene, I won't get cervicitis?

Case: Ms. Chen is 27 years old and has been married for half a year. But in the past two weeks, she always felt some pain in her vagina every time she had sex, and her vaginal discharge increased and turned yellow. After examination, the doctor said she had cervicitis. But Ms. Chen felt that she and her husband paid attention to hygiene, so how could she have cervicitis?

Expert answer: When sexual life is active, alkaline semen often enters the acidic vagina, causing the pH value of the vagina to change, the beneficial bacteria to decrease, and the harmful bacteria to increase, which can easily lead to chronic cervicitis. In addition, poor hygiene habits, flushing the vagina with high concentrations of acidic or alkaline solutions, childbirth, curettage, abortion or other improper cervical operations may cause cervical infection and cervicitis.

Question 2: Is it okay to leave cervical erosion untreated?

Case: Ms. Lin had a physical examination at work last week and was found to have mild cervical erosion. She heard that cervical erosion is a more serious form of cervicitis, which made her very worried.

Expert answer: Cervical erosion is not completely equivalent to chronic cervicitis. Only when the cervical epithelium falls off and ulcerates, it is the real cervical erosion. Under some physiological conditions, such as women in adolescence, pregnancy or oral contraceptives, due to the increase of estrogen levels, the columnar epithelium of the cervical canal proliferates, which can cause physiological "cervical erosion". When the estrogen level drops, the columnar epithelium can return to the cervical canal, and the "cervical erosion" will heal without medication.

Question 3: Is cervical erosion a precancerous lesion of cervical cancer?

Case: Ms. Liu found out she had cervical erosion during a physical examination. She heard that cervical erosion is a precancerous lesion of cervical cancer. She is 45 years old this year and is very worried that she will suffer from cervical cancer like Anita Mui.

Expert answer: The mild, moderate and severe grades of cervical erosion only represent the area of ​​erosion visible to the naked eye and have no direct relationship with cancer.

Human papillomavirus --- HPV, this virus is the culprit of cervical cancer. The peak infection period is between 20 and 24 years old and between 40 and 44 years old. After being infected with HPV, most women can eliminate HPV by themselves. However, less than 10% of women cannot completely eliminate HPV from their bodies. In this way, HPV integrates with DNA, changes the properties of squamous cells on the surface of the cervix, and slowly erodes the normal cervix until cancer occurs.

Six Myths About Cervical Erosion You Don’t Know

Cervical erosion, a type of chronic cervicitis, is mainly caused by vaginitis. Cervicitis develops if it is not treated in time or is not treated thoroughly. Women with this disease may have bleeding after sexual intercourse, bloody vaginal discharge, abnormal leucorrhea, odor, etc. Don't underestimate it as an inflammation. If it is not treated in time, the cervix will be extremely damaged and the bacteria will ascend. The most serious one will cause female infertility.

In fact, cervical erosion is not difficult to treat. The key is that many women have misunderstandings about it and do not pay attention to it. So what are these misunderstandings of female friends?

1. Cervical erosion can cause infertility

Cervical erosion is a symptom of chronic cervicitis and a common disease among female friends. Mild and moderate cervical erosion will not affect fertility. If you want to have children, don't focus too much on "erosion". If it is a major cervical erosion, you should pay attention to it. Don't blindly follow some misleading information and accept improper treatment. You can get pregnant under the guidance of a doctor.

2. Indiscriminate drug treatment

At present, there are many kinds of local drugs for treating cervical erosion, but local drugs can only protect the surface of the erosion. The surface seems to heal in a short period of time, but because the basic lesions are not resolved, they will soon relapse. As for vulvar and vaginal washing, it can only improve the symptoms of leucorrhea, but it cannot play a fundamental role in the healing of erosion. At the same time, unnecessary vaginal washing or medication will destroy the normal defense mechanism of the vagina and may cause infection.

For those who need treatment for cervical erosion, don't think that "applying medicine and cleaning" costs less than physical therapy and does not hurt the skin. Improper treatment can only prolong the course of the disease and worsen the condition, and you will end up spending more money.

3. Women who have not given birth are not suitable for physical therapy

Many people have heard that scars on the neck after physical therapy will affect pregnancy, which makes many women who have not given birth refuse physical therapy. So how should women with cervical erosion who have not given birth be treated?

First of all, we need to look at the degree and nature of the erosion. Cervical erosion is divided into three degrees: mild, moderate, and severe according to the depth of the lesion. If it is mild and superficial erosion, even if the erosion surface is large, if the erosion depth is shallow and there is not much leucorrhea, it can be temporarily left untreated. If it is moderate or above papillary erosion, cancer prevention detection and treatment must be done. Just pay attention to the treatment range during physical therapy does not involve the cervical canal, then there is no need to worry too much. This depends on the doctor's clear diagnosis of the disease and proficiency in the operation.

4. Only middle-aged women who have given birth will suffer from cervical erosion. It has nothing to do with me!

Cervical erosion is a common inflammation of the female reproductive organs, but it does not mean that women will suffer from cervical erosion only after giving birth. After women have sex, their vagina is relatively "open". If you do not pay attention to hygiene during sex, bacteria will have a chance to invade the vagina, which will increase the possibility of women suffering from inflammation of the reproductive organs, causing cervicitis and erosion. Cervical erosion is not "exclusive" to married middle-aged women. Early prevention, early inspection, and early treatment can keep you healthy!

We know that increased vaginal discharge is sometimes caused by physiological changes, such as increased vaginal discharge during ovulation. If an unmarried woman has persistent increased vaginal discharge, or changes in color or texture, she should go to a regular hospital to find out the cause. If it is diagnosed as cervical erosion, it should be treated in time to avoid affecting fertility and normal life.

5. Although you suffer from cervical erosion, there is no discomfort, so it doesn't matter whether you treat it or not.

Mild cervical erosion is not uncomfortable, but in moderate and severe cervical erosion, the cervical secretions will increase significantly, the texture is viscous, and contain a large number of white blood cells, which will affect the activity of sperm and directly prevent sperm from entering the uterine cavity, thus affecting normal conception and causing female infertility; and if it is not treated in time, the inflammation of the cervix will not be cured for a long time, which will cause inflammation and complications of other organs, such as: endocervicitis, adnexitis, infection and adhesion of fallopian tubes, which will lead to female infertility. Under the long-term stimulation of chronic inflammation, it can also cause deeper diseases such as polyps, lacerations, eversions and cysts; even some cervical erosions can become cancerous. According to statistics, the incidence of cervical cancer in women with cervical erosion is 10 times higher than that of those without cervical erosion.

6. The treatment of cervical erosion is very simple, so don’t take it too seriously.

The treatment of cervical erosion is indeed not very difficult, but it is simple only relative to the operation process. For patients, if they do not cooperate well and the treatment is random, the disease is difficult to cure. Even if it is cured, it will easily be re-infected and cause inflammation. Danfeng Chaoyang gynecology experts said that as long as the right treatment method is chosen for cervical erosion and active cooperation is given, it can be cured quickly.