What is cervical erosion

Cervical erosion is a common disease among women, and data show that its incidence rate can be as high as 40% to 60% among married women with children. Many female friends feel panic when they hear the word "erosion".

In fact, cervical erosion itself is not an inflammation. It can be divided into pseudo-erosion and inflammatory erosion. Pseudo-erosion occurs under some physiological conditions, such as adolescence and pregnancy. Due to the increase in estrogen levels, the columnar epithelium of the cervical canal proliferates and moves outward. The external opening of the cervix is ​​red and granular, so pseudo-erosion does not need to be treated; inflammatory erosion is mostly a chronic inflammation caused by untreated or incomplete treatment of acute cervicitis. The main symptoms are increased vaginal secretions and lumbosacral pain. If the leucorrhea is sticky and purulent, it is not conducive to the passage of sperm and will lead to infertility. Therefore, vaginal medication can be used for treatment with obvious clinical symptoms to relieve local inflammation. In addition, cervical erosion needs further examination to differentiate it from cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and early cervical cancer. .

Therefore, patients with cervical erosion need the help of doctors to distinguish true erosion from false erosion. Generally, pseudo-erosion does not require treatment. Only those very few patients with severe cervical columnar epithelial ectopia (cervical erosion), ectropion, hyperplasia, a lot of leucorrhea, need to use sanitary pads, or affect infertility need treatment. What patients with pseudo-erosion need is to have a screening for cervical cancer and precancerous lesions once a year. In fact, even women with smooth cervixes need to be screened for cervical cancer and precancerous lesions.