Symptoms and treatment of vulvar leukoplakia

The symptoms and treatment methods of vulvar leukoplakia are the issues that patients want to know most. Many patients delay treatment and worsen their condition because they do not know the symptoms and treatment methods of vulvar leukoplakia. Now let the experts introduce the symptoms and treatment methods of vulvar leukoplakia in detail.

What are the symptoms and treatment of vulvar leukoplakia? The symptoms of vulvar leukoplakia mainly include simple atrophic type, lichen sclerosis type, hyperplastic type, and mixed white lesions. The main symptoms are:

1. Patients with simple atrophy: The labia majora and minora of the vulva are shrunk to varying degrees. Mild cases are colorless and white. After degree 2, there is slight itching and abnormal discomfort of the vulva. The clitoris adheres to the foreskin, disappears, and becomes flat. The labia minora on both sides disappear and become flat. The overall vulva is shrunk by 1/3 to 1/2 of the upper and lower diameter of the vulva of normal women. The vulva is inelastic as a whole, and becomes leathery, with varying degrees of hardening.

2. Patients with lichen sclerosus: In the early stage, the vulva has white, small white rashes of varying sizes, itching and severe cracking and itching. In severe cases, white flakes will fall off, itching will intensify, itching will be unbearable, and the patient will be unable to sleep at night. The vulva will gradually shrink, harden, become leathery, and uneven.

3. Hyperplastic patients: The labia minora on both sides of the vulva, clitoris and foreskin are enlarged and thickened to varying degrees, and the surface is brown or dark blue. The clitoris has varying degrees of adhesion, and the labia minora on both sides are enlarged and oval. The patients have decreased or no sexual desire, and are abnormally irritable. A small number of patients have mild itching, which is prone to cancer in the late stage.

4. Mixed type patients: Among the above three types, any patient with two of the combined types is called a mixed type.

Treatment of vulvar leukoplakia:

1. Infrared therapy, wave mother therapy, vulvar injection therapy, vulvar fire needle therapy, vulvar cryotherapy, laser therapy, etc. are all therapies that only treat the symptoms and not the root cause, and can only bring temporary relief to the vulva.

2. Remember not to perform surgical excision because surgical excision not only causes excessive bleeding, affects the nutritional supply of the vulva, destroys the subcutaneous tissue, and promotes faster progression of the disease, but also causes lifelong deformation of the vulva and difficulty urinating. If you can use Chinese medicine's syndrome differentiation and treatment and conservative treatment, you must find out the cause of vulvar leukoplakia during treatment so that you can prescribe the right medicine. Only with the right medicine can there be hope of curing vulvar leukoplakia.

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