What's wrong with the pain, swelling and itching below?

Some women have a high probability of suffering from gynecological diseases because they do not pay attention to personal hygiene, but they don’t know how to treat it. Many women do not know what is causing the pain, itching and swelling down there. Pain, itching and swelling down there are signs of gynecological diseases. Women with these symptoms must go to a regular medical institution for treatment and not take it lightly, so as to avoid developing into more serious diseases.

1. Causes of vulvar itching and swelling

1. Vulvar dryness: Excessive use of potassium permanganate solution for sitz baths and vulvar dryness in postmenopausal women can also cause vulvar itching, which is the main cause of vulvar itching.

2. Various diseases of the vulva: such as vulvar eczema, vulvar hypopigmentation or leukoplakia, vulvar ringworm, vulvar neurodermatitis, vulvar condyloma, etc. can cause vulvar itching.

3. Irritation from secretions: Inflammation of the reproductive tract caused by fungi, gonococci, Trichomonas, and bacteria, which produces abnormal leucorrhea, as well as stimulation from urine (thin urine, urinary incontinence) and feces (thin feces) can cause vulvar itching.

4. Chemicals and drugs stimulate local itching: such as alkaline soaps, condoms, sanitary napkins, synthetic underwear, etc., which directly contact the local area and stimulate itching.

5. Systemic diseases. Systemic diseases mainly include diabetes, anemia, leukemia, polycythemia, skin diseases, hepatobiliary diseases (such as jaundice), kidney diseases, lymphoma, etc. In addition to general itching, vulvar itching is often accompanied. According to statistics, 3.4% of 500 diabetic patients had localized itching, mainly vulvar itching.

6. Drug rash: "Fixed drug rash" caused by women with allergic constitution taking sulfonamides or other drugs often occurs at the junction of the skin and mucous membrane of the vulva, causing local itching. Vulvar itching may also occur if allergic reactions and contact dermatitis occur after using drugs for vaginal douching or vaginal implantation.

7. Skin diseases of the vulva: The skin lesions of tinea cruris often extend to the vulva, causing severe local itching. The local itching caused by vulvar eczema neurodermatitis is more severe, and vulvar leukoplakia also often causes local itching.

8. Mental factors: When you are worried, depressed, nervous, or irritable, you will often feel itchy vulva, which becomes more itchy the more you scratch it.

9. Dietary factors: Lack of iron, riboflavin, vitamin A, vitamin E, fat, etc. in food causes dryness, flaking and itching of the vulvar skin.

10. Malnutrition of the vulva, varicose veins of the vulva, and itching and swelling of the vulva.

11. Rectovaginal fistula, anal fistula, and stool contamination.

12. Inflammatory stimulation, such as trichomoniasis, candidal vaginitis, and chronic cervicitis, which causes itching and swelling of the vulva due to the stimulation of inflammatory secretions.

13. Symptoms of vulvar itching and swelling caused by systemic diseases, such as diabetes mellitus, vitamin deficiency, icteric hepatitis, patient reactions such as drug allergy, urticaria, and topical use of contraceptive tools may cause vulvar itching.

14. Inflammatory stimulation, such as trichomoniasis vaginitis (trichomoniasis vaginitis), candidal vaginitis (candidal vaginitis), and vulvar itching and swelling caused by inflammatory secretions during chronic cervicitis

15. Urinary fistula, urinary incontinence, urinary tract infection secretions, urine irritation.

2. Symptoms

Vulvar itching and swelling are mostly located in the clitoris and labia minora, and may also affect the labia majora, perineum and even perianal skin lesions. It is often paroxysmal, but can also be continuous, usually worsening at night. Unexplained vulvar itching and swelling usually only occurs in women of childbearing age or after menopause, often affecting the entire vulva, but may also be limited to a certain part or one side of the vulva. Although the itching is very painful and even unbearable, the local skin and mucous membrane appear normal, or there are only scratches due to excessive scratching.