What are the symptoms of female cervicitis? How does female cervicitis cause infertility?

The fact that cervicitis causes infertility is still unknown to most people, so women should never ignore cervicitis. What are the characteristics, misunderstandings, symptoms of cervicitis, and how to correctly understand cervicitis? These are all issues that women with cervicitis who are infertile are concerned about. So, what is the truth behind cervicitis causing infertility? Let's take a look at the following introduction.

Cervicitis causes infertility

Chronic cervicitis is the most common gynecological disease. It is often seen after childbirth, abortion or surgical injury to the cervix, pathogens invade and cause infection, and it is transformed from acute cervicitis. Acute cervicitis is often not treated thoroughly, and pathogens hide in the cervical mucosa to form chronic inflammation. Many women have mild symptoms of acute cervicitis, which are often ignored and directly lead to chronic cervicitis. About 20%-25% of patients with excessive vaginal discharge are caused by cervicitis. If the leucorrhea caused by inflammation is sticky and purulent, it will be detrimental to the passage of sperm through the cervical canal, thus leading to infertility.

What are the symptoms of cervicitis

Increased vaginal discharge is the most common, and sometimes even the only, symptom of acute cervicitis. The discharge is purulent or mixed with blood, often accompanied by backache and lower abdominal pain. Sometimes the vulva is irritated by the inflammatory secretions and causes itching, burning sensation, and urination symptoms such as frequent urination and urgency. A small number of patients have symptoms such as sexual intercourse pain and fever.

Leucorrhea self-test: Test whether your leucorrhea is normal?

Analysis of common gynecological diseases "leucorrhea" Don't take medicine on your own if you have increased leucorrhea. Some people have no obvious symptoms after suffering from acute cervicitis, so it is often easily ignored and develops into chronic cervicitis. The main symptom of chronic cervicitis is increased leucorrhea. When the inflammation spreads to the pelvic cavity along the uterosacral ligament, there may be pain in the lumbosacral region and pain in the lower part of the pelvic cavity. Its main clinical manifestations are: cervical erosion, cervical hypertrophy, cervical polyps, cervical canal cysts and cervical mucositis.

There are many misunderstandings about cervicitis

Although cervicitis is a common gynecological disease, many female friends currently do not understand this disease and have some misunderstandings about it.

Some people believe that all married women will have cervicitis, which neither affects work nor life, is insignificant, and is the same whether it is treated or not.

Another group of people believe that cervicitis is a precancerous lesion, and they are very afraid of cancer, which leads to "cancer phobia" that affects their personal emotions and even their daily lives.

These are all incorrect. Chronic cervicitis and cervical cancer have some common symptoms, such as vaginal spotting after sexual intercourse or bloody vaginal discharge. In this case, a cervical smear, colposcopy, cervical biopsy, etc. must be performed to rule out cancer before treating cervicitis.

Correct understanding of cervicitis

Generally speaking, simply suffering from cervicitis will not pose a big threat to health, but symptoms such as increased vaginal discharge, back pain, and lower abdominal distension caused by cervicitis often affect people's emotions. From the perspective of cancer prevention, cervicitis is closely related to cervical cancer. According to relevant cancer prevention survey data, 0.39% of women without cervical erosion suffer from cervical cancer, while 2.05% of women with uterine erosion suffer from cervical cancer. This shows that actively treating chronic cervicitis and taking active preventive measures are of great significance to protecting women's health and preventing and treating cervical cancer.

The truth behind cervicitis causing infertility

Acute cervicitis is more common after puerperal infection, and is manifested by increased leucorrhea, pain in the lower abdomen and lumbosacral region, and increased white blood cell count with fever in some patients. Sexual intercourse and vaginal surgery should be avoided at this time. Chronic cervicitis is mostly caused by pathogens invading the cervix after childbirth, abortion or vaginal surgery. It can be divided into four types: cervical erosion, cervical polyps, cervical hypertrophy, and cervical cysts. Among them, cervical erosion is the most common. During gynecological examination, it can be seen that the surface of the cervix loses its pink and smooth mucosa, and the surface is uneven and red and granular. This is the result of the replacement of the squamous epithelium of the cervix by the columnar epithelium. Chronic cervicitis is often manifested by increased leucorrhea, which is purulent, and may be mixed with blood. Sometimes contact bleeding (i.e. bleeding after sex) occurs.

So how does cervicitis lead to infertility?

(1) When suffering from chronic cervicitis, the cervical secretions become thick and form a mucus plug, which blocks the cervical canal and is not conducive to the penetration and upward movement of sperm.

(2) During inflammatory lesions, the secretions contain a large number of white blood cells that can wrap around and engulf sperm.

(3) Cervical inflammation causes abnormal changes in pH in areas such as the cervix and vagina, making it easier for pathogenic microorganisms to reproduce. Pathogens and their metabolic toxins can weaken the motility of sperm.

Many women also believe that there is no scientific basis for the view that pre-pregnancy treatment will affect pregnancy and childbirth. Not to mention that cervicitis itself makes it difficult for women to get pregnant. Even if they get pregnant by chance, the increase in estrogen levels in the pregnant woman's body will make cervical erosion more serious, and even cause very difficult-to-treat prenatal bleeding, which will endanger the safety of the fetus in the expectant mother's belly.