Symptoms of vulvar leukoplakia: Learn about them in time and say goodbye to gynecological diseases

Vulvar leukoplakia is a disease caused by cell damage, also known as vulvar malnutrition or vulvar precancerous lesions. More than 70% of patients will experience varying degrees of whitening of the vulvar skin. Due to cell lesions, the patient's body resistance and recovery ability decrease, and it is impossible to absorb nutrients from the body, which leads to the occurrence of various gynecological diseases. Let's take a look at the symptoms of vulvar leukoplakia .

Symptoms of vulvar leukoplakia

1. Typical symptoms of hyperplastic vulvar leukoplakia at each stage

Stage I hyperplastic type: The main symptom is vulvar itching, which worsens at night. Some patients have severe itching and may feel burning and other discomfort. Scratching often causes redness, swelling and ulceration. Stage II hyperplastic type: Based on the symptoms of stage I, the vulvar skin has mild hypopigmentation (usually on the inner side of the labia majora and minora), and the skin in the lesion area has keratinization and hyperplasia. The surface is frosty and white, forming dots or small white papules. Stage III hyperplastic type: The keratin layer is repeatedly shed, the skin is severely keratinized, or scratching causes edema, vulvar iris, chapped, ulcerated and eroded. Patients feel severe symptoms and may have itching accompanied by pain. However, the treatment effect of this type of patients is rapid, just like the traditional Chinese medicine "Yinbansan", which basically eliminates the symptoms of about 85% of patients within one course of treatment.

2. Typical symptoms of atrophic vulvar leukoplakia at each stage

Stage I atrophy: The main symptoms are not obvious, no white lesions appear, some patients have mild itching, and the vulva has atrophy that is not easy to be found by the naked eye. Stage II atrophy: The typical symptoms are mild atrophy of the vulva, generally the elasticity of the labia majora and minora is reduced, starting from the labia majora, minora, and clitoris, the surface vulva pruritus is relatively mild, and the wrinkles are reduced or absent. Due to atrophy, there may be dryness of the vulva, discomfort in sexual life, etc., and local hypopigmentation of the vulvar skin, which is multiple or flaky. Stage III atrophy: The symptoms are severe, the labia minora disappears, the labia majora of the vulva is flat, and the clitoris atrophies and becomes smaller or adheres. In severe cases, urinary incontinence occurs, the urethral opening atrophies, the vaginal opening atrophies, and sexual life is difficult. Some patients have no wrinkles on the perianal skin, white spots and atrophy of the anus, anal fissures during defecation, and reduced elasticity. About 50% of patients have large areas of hypopigmentation on the vulvar skin.

3. Symptoms of mixed vulvar leukoplakia. When the proliferative and atrophic types of vulvar leukoplakia develop to the late stage II or stage III, patients will generally experience mixed symptoms of the two types.