How do women identify genital warts?

If a woman gets genital warts, it will cause great harm to her health. It can easily lead to more serious gynecological diseases and is also an important cause of some tumors. Therefore, when a woman gets genital warts, she must receive good treatment in time. The clinical diagnosis of genital warts is also relatively simple. As an individual, you can apply 5% acetic acid to the affected area at home, which has a good identification significance. Let us learn about it.

How do women identify genital warts?

For clinical identification, you can use gauze or cotton swab dipped in 5% acetic acid solution to apply tightly to the affected area and observe after 2 to 5 minutes: if it is genital warts, the local area will turn white, which is a positive reaction; pseudo-warts are a negative reaction, that is, there is no color change. If there is local inflammation, it may be a false positive reaction and a pathological examination may be performed if necessary.

What are the harms of genital warts to women?

1. Infect the baby and affect the quality of birth.

Pregnant women with genital warts may infect their babies during childbirth, causing biting warts in infants and young children.

2. It may cause infection.

For women with genital warts, if the treatment is not active and thorough, especially those with high-risk viruses, what harm will genital warts do to women? Female genital warts are highly contagious and can be transmitted to family members or other people, causing infection.

The more contagious the disease is, the more the body's immune system is suppressed, the more difficult it is to cure the disease, and it may recur repeatedly for a long time. Finally, there is the possibility of causing genital warts to become cancerous.

3. Genital warts in women recur repeatedly and are difficult to control.

Female genital warts recur repeatedly and are difficult to control, and sometimes the pain is severe, which causes excessive mental burden on patients. As a result, female patients with genital warts develop psychological disorders, fear of cancer, fear of infecting sexual partners, avoidance of sexual life with sexual partners, unwillingness to interact with the opposite sex, leading to sexual dysfunction. Female genital warts affect family harmony and even cause depression.