The symptoms of early vaginitis should be a common concern for everyone. Because vaginitis is also a common disease, its incidence is also relatively frequent.

What are the common symptoms of vaginitis?

1. Bacterial vaginosis: About 10% to 50% of patients with this disease are clinically asymptomatic. Those with symptoms often complain of gray-white leucorrhea with a fishy smell, vaginal burning, itching and other symptoms of vaginitis. Performance.

2. Trichomonas vaginitis: The main symptom of this type of vaginitis is an increase in leucorrhea, which is milky white or yellow. Sometimes the symptoms of vaginitis are purulent leucorrhea, which is often foamy, smelly, and severe vaginitis. Patients may have bloody leucorrhea, painful urination, frequent urination, and hematuria.

3. Increased leucorrhea, which is yellow and watery, purulent and smelly in severe cases, with itching, dryness and pain in the vulva, bloating in the lower abdomen, and when it affects the urethra, there may be frequent urination, urgency, and painful urination. Symptoms of non-specific vaginitis: vaginal sinking feeling, burning, accompanied by pelvic discomfort and general fatigue. Vaginal discharge increases, is purulent, serous, and smelly.

What causes vaginitis?

1. Not paying attention to hygiene: Some women fail to wash their lower bodies carefully before going to bed at night because of laziness, or do not change their underwear frequently, which allows bacteria to breed and enter the vagina, causing diseases, or some women Not paying attention to menstrual hygiene, using unclean products, etc. This is one of the causes of vaginitis.

2. Excessive cleaning: Although women need to pay attention to personal hygiene, excessive cleaning is not allowed. Many women will choose to use soap or other lotions to clean the vulva. If you do this for a long time, it will have a negative impact on women's health. The body may also cause vaginitis.

3. IUD surgery: IUD surgery is a common method of contraception for women. However, if safe and effective IUD surgery cannot be performed, not only will the contraceptive effect not be achieved, but it will also have a lot of impact on women's bodies. One of the sequelae is vaginitis in women.

What are the principles for medication for vaginitis?

1. Don’t rely solely on Chinese patent medicines

Some gynecological Chinese patent medicines have the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying, but they generally take effect slowly and are not very specific. They are often used as auxiliary treatment for chronic gynecological inflammation and cannot be used as the first choice treatment. For acute trichomonas, fungi, and bacterial infections, anti-trichomoniasis and anti-fungal drugs are the first choice. Blind use of Chinese patent medicines may delay the condition.

2. Do not abuse vaginal suppositories

As long as there is inflammation, treat it with suppositories. If you do not treat according to the cause, it will worsen the condition. For example, in acute trichomoniasis and fungal infections, corrosive vaginal suppositories cannot be used; if it is acute vaginitis, using suppositories can promote the spread of inflammation. . However, the effect of drug treatment is not obvious and the disease will recur.

3. Do not buy medicine according to advertisements

Different types of vaginitis require different medications. Before buying medicine, patients should understand the characteristics of the disease and choose medicine accordingly. If you are unclear about the symptoms, you should go to the hospital for treatment. The doctor will choose sensitive drugs for treatment based on the infectious pathogen and the patient's physical signs, rather than blindly selecting drugs based on advertisements.

4. Do not use antibiotics in large quantities

Some patients learn that they have vaginitis and immediately start taking antibiotics. In fact, excessive use of antibiotics will cause bacteria to develop drug resistance, destroy the balance of vaginal flora, and prolong the treatment cycle. Especially for fungal infections, antibiotics will aggravate the symptoms of infection.