What to do if children have vaginitis

Children usually do not suffer from vaginitis. If it happens, it may be that parents do not pay enough attention to their children's cleanliness and hygiene, which eventually leads to a lot of bacteria invading their children's bodies. If this is the case, comprehensive treatment is needed. Some oral medications can be taken for treatment. The effect is actually very significant and prevents the symptoms from becoming more serious.

Vaginitis in young women requires comprehensive treatment:

① Replace crotchless pants with soft, clean cotton underwear. The mother should also keep the girl's vulva and underwear clean;

② Gently insert a soft and thin sterilized urinary catheter into the child's vagina, and then use a sterilizing solution of appropriate concentration to flush out the inflammatory secretions in the vagina once a day;

③ Use a 1:5000 concentration of potassium permanganate warm water solution to give the young girl a sitz bath for 15 minutes each time, once in the morning and once in the evening;

④ If urethritis and cystitis occur concurrently, non-corrosive bactericidal drugs can be injected directly into the urethra and bladder through the urethra, once every 5 days;

⑤ Oral cephalosporin antibiotics;

⑥ When a young girl has a sexually transmitted disease (such as gonorrhea, syphilis, mycoplasma and chlamydia infection), parents should also check her. If any abnormality is found, they should receive systematic treatment together with the girl. It should be noted that when the symptoms of vaginitis, urethritis, and cystitis disappear and the results of urine and vaginal secretion tests are normal, oral antibiotics should be continued for one week to consolidate the therapeutic effect.

Because the ovarian function of infants and young children is not yet fully developed, the vaginal mucosa of infants and young children is relatively thin, and the external opening of the vagina is close to the anus and urethra, the local area is prone to moisture and bacterial infection and inflammation, such as vulvovaginitis. Vulvitis is more likely to occur when the vulvar skin is abraded or scratched and becomes contaminated.

The physiological characteristics of newborns and young girls determine that almost any source of infection or irritant can cause inflammation after entering the vagina. The most common is infection by Escherichia coli, which exists in the intestines and causes disease through fecal contamination. Intestinal pinworms crawl out of the anus and invade the vulva and vagina, causing infection, which is also one of the important causes of this disease.

Some children, out of curiosity or to relieve some discomfort in the vulva, will insert things such as hairpins, small pencil heads, and small toys into the vagina. If they fail to remove them in time, the vaginal mucosa may be stimulated or damaged for a long time, causing inflammation. Girl babies are more susceptible to congenital malformations such as vaginal-rectal fistula. Some pathogenic factors in the mother's body, such as herpes simplex virus, fungi and Trichomonas, can be transmitted to female newborns when the fetus passes through the birth canal or has close contact in daily life.

Now people's material and cultural living standards have improved significantly, and the early education of only children has been paid attention to. Some parents take their young girls to swim in the swimming pool, but do not pay attention to vulvar and vaginal hygiene, which is often repeatedly contaminated by bacteria. When the resistance is reduced, bacteria multiply and cause vaginitis.

In acute infection, there is often redness, swelling and pain of the vulva, pain during urination, and discomfort in the vulva, which makes baby girls irritable. Abnormal vaginal discharge manifests as purulent leucorrhea, sometimes yellow watery, or even bloody discharge. If it is a long-term foreign body irritation accompanied by E. coli infection, it is often accompanied by a bad odor. If you find the above situation, you should take your child to the hospital in time to ask a doctor to identify the disease and provide symptomatic treatment.