How is vulvar itching transmitted?

Is female vulvar itching contagious? How is it contagious? This is a question that many women want to know, because many women have vulvar itching. So today our editor will give you a brief introduction. Next, let's listen to the editor's introduction!

Vulvar itching is usually caused by trichomoniasis and fungal infection. These two diseases are spread through public baths, tubs, swimming pools, toilets, clothing, etc., and can also be spread through sexual intercourse. Therefore, women with vulvar itching symptoms should avoid sexual intercourse on a regular basis, and during treatment, sexual intercourse should be prohibited to completely cure the inflammation.

Patients often ask whether vulvar itching is contagious and how this disease is transmitted? In some special circumstances in life, such as long-term use of <drug name omitted> and diabetes, vaginal candida infection can induce vulvar itching, which can cause vulvar itching. However, in many cases, vulvar itching of candidal vaginitis is infected from the outside. When women have sexual contact with men with positive Candida culture, the infection rate is 80%; among men who have sexual contact with women with candidal vaginitis, about 1/2 of them will be infected.

In other words, candidal vaginitis can be transmitted through sexual intercourse, which is why when a woman has candidal vaginitis, her spouse must also receive treatment at the same time. In addition, indirect contact transmission is also a transmission route for candidal vaginitis. Contact with toilets, bathtubs, bath seats, towels in public toilets, and using unclean toilet paper can cause transmission. When the number of Candida albicans on the vulva and vagina of the infected person reaches a certain level, candidal vulvitis and candidal vaginitis can occur.

Patients often have paroxysmal attacks, which can also be continuous, usually worsening at night. Unexplained vulvar itching generally only occurs in women of childbearing age or postmenopausal women, often affecting the entire vulva, but may also be limited to a certain part or one side of the vulva, but the local skin and mucous membranes appear normal, or there are only scratches due to excessive scratching.

Vulvovaginal candidiasis and trichomonas vaginitis have vulvar pruritus and increased leucorrhea as the main symptoms. Vulvar squamous epithelial hyperplasia has vulvar pruritus as the main symptom, accompanied by loss of vulvar skin pigmentation. Vulvar pruritus caused by enterobiasis is worse at night.

In patients with diabetes, sugar in their urine irritates the vulvar skin, especially when complicated by vulvovaginal candidiasis. The vulvar itching is particularly inflammatory and even unbearable, but the local skin and mucous membranes appear normal, or there are only scratches and blood scabs due to excessive scratching.

When patients with jaundice, vitamin A and B deficiency, anemia, leukemia and other chronic diseases experience vulvar itching, it is often part of systemic itching. Cholestasis in the liver and gallbladder during pregnancy can also cause systemic itching of the skin, including the vulva.

To sum up, after listening to the above introduction, you should now know a little about whether female vulvar itching is contagious and how it is transmitted. Therefore, we recommend that patients go to a regular hospital for examination and treatment!