How to distinguish between cervicitis and cervical erosion? What causes cervicitis?

Nowadays, many people are paying attention to uterine and cervical diseases, especially women. When talking about cervical diseases, the first thing that comes to mind may be common diseases such as cervicitis or cervical erosion. Therefore, as a woman, you need to understand and distinguish between cervicitis and cervical erosion. So, do you really know the difference between the two? How do women distinguish between cervicitis and cervical erosion? Female friends who want to understand uterine diseases, now follow the experts to look at the following health care common sense!

Everyone should know that female cervicitis is essentially an inflammation of the cervix caused by infection, trauma and other reasons. It is also a cause of cervical erosion, and cervical erosion is only one of the pathological manifestations of chronic cervicitis. In addition to these, what else can we not distinguish? Let's take a look at the detailed explanation below.

As we all know, cervicitis is a common gynecological disease, and some women regard cervicitis as cervical erosion. In fact, the two are different, but cervicitis is one of the causes of cervical erosion. As the saying goes, cervicitis is essentially an inflammation of the cervix caused by infection, trauma and other reasons. It is also a cause of cervical erosion and can be divided into acute cervicitis and chronic cervicitis.

Clinically, the latter is more common, manifested by increased leucorrhea and purulent discharge, pain in the lower abdomen and lumbosacral region when tired, and sometimes accompanied by frequent urination or dysuria, irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, infertility, etc. Cervical erosion is only one of the pathological manifestations of chronic cervicitis. It refers to the epithelial shedding or ulceration of the cervical vagina at the external cervical opening, and the appearance of a fine granular red area.

Causes of cervicitis:

1. Mechanical stimulation or injury Long-term chronic mechanical stimulation and injury are the main causes of cervicitis, so almost more than half of married women have cervicitis. In addition, bacteria can easily enter deep tissues or lymphatic vessels through wounds caused by miscarriage and childbirth, and gradually develop into cervicitis.

2. Pathogens The most common cause of cervicitis is common pyogenic bacterial infection. Gonorrhea and chlamydia are also very common and often coexist. There are also Trichomonas infection and tuberculosis infection. Others include the currently very important human papillomavirus infection and herpes virus infection, etc.

3. Chemical substances include strong acids and strong alkalis. Flushing the vagina with high-concentration acidic or alkaline solutions, as well as sitz baths with highly corrosive drugs, may cause varying degrees of vaginitis or cervicitis.

Causes of cervical erosion:

1. Unclean sex life. Generally, when women have sex, their vagina is relatively "open". During sex, the penis and cervix are in direct contact. If men do not pay attention to sex hygiene, they can directly bring bacteria into the vagina and infect the cervix. Before sex, men must be persuaded to clean their external genitalia.

2. Multiple artificial abortions. Repeated artificial abortions can cause varying degrees of cervical damage, giving bacteria an opportunity to invade and cause cervicitis. Due to the stimulation of inflammation, local secretions increase, and the cervix is ​​immersed in inflammatory secretions for a long time, which will cause erosion.

3. Chaotic sex life. Frequent changes of sexual partners will cause the body to be stimulated by multiple "antigens", disrupting the body's immune system. In addition, multiple miscarriages and mycoplasma and chlamydia infections are considered to be the "number one killer" of cervical erosion in women. From a clinical point of view, the more direct cause of the "number one killer" is men.

4. Failure to thoroughly clean the reproductive system of sexual partners. If men do not thoroughly clean their reproductive system, it is easy for them to bring bacteria into the female body during sexual intercourse, which in turn harms the female. Chlamydia exists in their bodies, but it will not cause infection. Once men bring bacteria in, it is easy to cause illness in women.

The above 4 methods are the ways to distinguish cervicitis from cervical erosion. Therefore, I hope everyone can learn more about it. Of course, there are still many ways to distinguish common uterine diseases, so I hope everyone will pay attention to this aspect. Experts also remind everyone that if you find that there are changes in your body, you might as well use B-ultrasound to check it out, so as to prevent uterine diseases!