How does vulvar leukoplakia cause whitening of the vulva skin?

Although vulvar leukoplakia is a common gynecological disease, many female friends do not have enough knowledge about the phenomenon of vulvar skin whitening . As a result, they are not alert enough to vulvar leukoplakia, resulting in failure to detect and treat the disease in time, and delaying the disease has caused great harm to their health.

Many women do not understand what vulvar leukoplakia is. In fact, vulvar leukoplakia is a vulvar disease. In medicine, the whitening or atrophy of the vulvar skin and mucous membranes of women caused by various factors is called vulvar leukoplakia. Let us now understand the pathological reasons why vulvar leukoplakia causes the vulvar skin to turn white.

Vulvar leukoplakia is a disease caused by the destruction of melanocytes in the vulvar skin. In addition to the whitening of the vulvar skin, the skin of other parts of the body can also turn white. The skin elasticity of the whitened area is normal, there are no pathological changes, it will not turn into skin cancer, and the patient has no discomfort symptoms, so no special treatment is required. You can seek treatment from a dermatologist. Although vulvar leukoplakia is a systemic hereditary disease. But it can also occur only in the vulvar skin. This disease is caused by the inability of melanocytes in the basal layer of the epidermis to produce melanin, causing the vulvar skin to turn white. Localized vulvar white disease does not require treatment because it has no symptoms and does not cause cancer.

Various chronic vulvar lesions, such as diabetic vulvitis, candidal vulvitis, vulvar abrasions, etc., can cause excessive keratinization and desquamation of the vulvar skin, which can cause the vulvar skin to turn white. Such patients are often misdiagnosed as vulvar white lesions because of vulvar itching. However, when the primary disease is cured, the vulvar white lesions will disappear.

The above are the pathological reasons for the whitening of the vulvar skin. I hope that by understanding this knowledge, female friends can be more vigilant about vulvar leukoplakia, pay attention to changes in the body, detect the disease in time and carry out effective treatment, which will help to recover soon.

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