What are the symptoms of vulvar leukoplakia?

The so-called vulvar leukoplakia refers to the vulvar leukoplakia. Vulvar leukoplakia is also a kind of female gynecological disease. However, many people do not know much about vulvar leukoplakia, so the symptoms of vulvar leukoplakia are easily ignored.

1. Vulvar itching is the first prominent manifestation felt by patients with vulvar leukoplakia. The symptoms of vulvar leukoplakia are particularly severe at night. The degree of itching in patients with vulvar leukoplakia is related to time, menstruation, climate, food, environment, and emotions. Pruritus usually occurs intermittently. Patients with vulvar leukoplakia often scratch constantly due to the itching. Due to scratching, there are many scratches and redness and swelling in the external vagina. As a result of long-term itching, local ulceration, chapped skin, ulceration and secondary infection occur. Therefore, patients with vulvar leukoplakia often have local burning pain, especially the clitoris and labia minora are very sensitive. In the early stage, the keratinization of the replacement part is excessive, and the fat skin is infiltrated. This is also one of the symptoms of vulvar leukoplakia.

2. The symptoms of vulvar leukoplakia include localized or diffuse white thickening of the vulvar skin and mucosa, which is leathery, ridged, wrinkled, or scaly, and eczematous. The skin color of the vulva of patients with vulvar leukoplakia is mostly purple-red or light red, or gray-white or gray-blue, with clearly defined white keratinized plaques. The symptoms of vulvar leukoplakia vary in shape and size, and are mixed malnutrition, with mixed symptoms of atrophy and hyperplasia, and are manifested by obvious atrophy of the vulva, hypertrophy of the clitoral hood, obvious keratinization, and localized thickening and ulceration.

3. Leukoplakia vulvae can occur at any age, and has been reported in various stages of women: childhood, adolescence, menopause and old age, but most cases occur in menopause around the age of 50. The course of leukoplakia vulvae varies, and the elderly may suffer from leukoplakia vulvae for decades. The most common sites are the clitoris, labia minora and the inner groove of the labia majora, and sometimes the vestibule, vagina and urethra, which is also one of the symptoms of leukoplakia vulvae.

4. Symptoms of vulvar leukoplakia include rough skin, thickening like moss, scratches, and sometimes chapped skin. Localized pigmentation is reduced, and the labia majora and labia minora generally turn white. The vulva of patients with vulvar leukoplakia can be seen to be slightly atrophied. In severe cases, the clitoris, labia majora and labia minora atrophy and even affect urination and sexual life.

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