Girls' vulvar leukoplakia

Vulvar leukoplakia is considered a relatively serious disease, because the vulva is a particularly private part of women. If vulvar leukoplakia occurs, it is often not noticed by female friends until the disease is in a serious stage. And if girls develop severe vulvar leukoplakia, they will not seek medical treatment because in their eyes it is a shameful disease. But all girls should know something about vulvar leukoplakia and understand its causes.

Vulvar leukoplakia can cause the following harm to women

1. Itching and pain: Patients with vulvar leukoplakia often feel unbearable itching in the vulva, as if a hole is drilled in the heart. In the early stage, rice-sized red dots and papules can be seen. As they are scratched and ruptured, they gradually ooze yellow fluid and gradually merge into pieces, and the color gradually turns white. At the same time, it is often accompanied by burning and swelling in the vulva, which seriously affects sleep and life and work.

2. Abnormal leucorrhea: Some patients have symptoms of increased leucorrhea, mainly referring to the appearance of purulent leucorrhea or white or grayish-yellow foamy leucorrhea in women.

3. Difficulty urinating: Vulvar leukoplakia will cause the surface of the vulvar skin to be rough and uneven, with cracks, ulcers, erosions, or hardening and loss of elasticity. The labia majora and minora may disappear, the urethral opening may atrophy, and urinary incontinence may occur, causing difficulty in urination. It may also cause difficulty in delivery and require a cesarean section.

4. Difficulty in sexual life: Due to the thinning of the local skin and mucous membrane of the vulva, some may be accompanied by swelling and edema, and the labia majora and minora may atrophy or even disappear, making the vaginal opening narrower, which may cause difficulties in sexual life. Over time, it may lead to symptoms of sexual indifference, seriously affecting the quality of sexual life of couples.

5. Leading to vulvar cancer: Vulvar leukoplakia is closely related to vulvar cancer, because if vulvar leukoplakia is not treated for a long time, it can cause necrosis of the squamous cells of the vulvar epithelium, and form local scar-like hyperplasia, lichen, and skin discoloration. Vulvar leukoplakia can be considered a precancerous lesion when there is epithelial hyperplasia.

TCM treatment of vulvar leukoplakia:

1. Blood deficiency and dryness. Insufficient spleen deficiency and insufficient source of energy, or long-term illness that consumes qi and blood, or other reasons that cause the body to lose blood and damage qi, resulting in Chong and Ren blood deficiency, which leads to poor genital skin care, dry vulva skin and disease. Symptoms: The vulva skin becomes white, dry, dull, wrinkled, and cracked, and it itches severely at night.

2. Liver and kidney yin deficiency, long-term illness or old age and physical weakness, liver and kidney insufficiency or excessive sexual activity, kidney damage, blood damage, inability to moisturize the skin and cause dry vulva. Symptoms include genital itching, which is worse at night, atrophy of the vulva, dryness, thinness and crispness of the lesions, and in severe cases of vulvar leukoplakia, the labia majora are flat, the labia minora disappear, and the vaginal opening is reduced.

3. Spleen and kidney yang deficiency. The body yang is deficient, or the kidney yang is damaged due to other reasons. Yang deficiency will cause internal coldness, Chong and Ren meridians will be cold, the genitals will lose warmth, the yang cold will stagnate on the genitals muscle surface, the circulation of qi and blood will be blocked, so the vulva skin will change color and shrink. Symptoms include whitening of the vulva skin, alternating between atrophy and thickening and roughness.

4. Damp-heat in the liver meridian is mostly caused by depression or anger that damages the liver. The liver qi is stagnant and turns into heat over time. The damp-heat evil flows into the lower part of the body and soaks the vulva to cause illness. Symptoms include hypopigmentation, roughness, wrinkles, redness, swelling and itching of the genital skin and mucosa. There is yellow fluid discharge from scratched areas. There are eczema-like changes, local burning pain, and a lot of yellow and smelly vaginal discharge.

[Warm Tips] The above is the introduction about vulvar leukoplakia. I hope it can be of some help to you. When you find yourself suffering from vulvar leukoplakia, do not panic, but go to a regular specialist hospital for examination in time to find out the cause, then prescribe the right medicine and follow the doctor's advice, so that you can recover your health better and faster. I wish you a happy life!