What anti-inflammatory medicine should I take for vaginal itching

The vagina is the tissue of the female reproductive organ. Generally speaking, the female private parts often produce some uncomfortable symptoms, such as abnormal leucorrhea, vaginal itching, odor, etc. These are all gynecological diseases. It is recommended that those with severe symptoms go to the hospital in time and cooperate with the doctor's treatment. In daily life, try to maintain a light taste in eating habits, avoid spicy and irritating foods, pay attention to the hygiene of private parts, and change underwear frequently.

Many women have this "bad habit": when they find abnormal leucorrhea and vaginal itching, they think they have vaginitis and immediately go to the pharmacy to buy anti-inflammatory drugs and topical lotions to treat themselves. In fact, this is wrong behavior.

Vulvar itching often occurs in the vagina, on the outside of the labia majora, mons pubis, clitoris, labia minora, and perineum, and can spread to the vicinity of the anus. It is a type of localized pruritus. The itching is often unbearable, often occurring at night. It often worsens during menstruation or after eating spicy food. Vulvar itching often manifests as paroxysmal, but sometimes persistent, often worsening at night. Severe itching causes restlessness. Long-term itching can cause ulceration, redness, swelling, or secondary infection. Due to long-term scratching, local infiltration, hypertrophy and pigmentation may occur. The diagnosis is easy based on the clinical presence of only secondary skin lesions and no primary skin lesions.

There are as many as 29 kinds of anaerobic and aerobic bacteria in the normal female vagina. Although patients with vaginitis may have symptoms such as increased vaginal discharge, fishy odor, mild vulvar itching or burning sensation, vaginitis caused by different flora has different symptoms, and other gynecological diseases also cause similar symptoms. Thinking that you have vaginitis as soon as you have similar symptoms is an unscientific way of treating the disease.

Secondly, once you find that you have vaginitis, it is very dangerous to buy medicine to clean the vulva or take large amounts of oral anti-inflammatory drugs privately. Under normal circumstances, vaginal lactobacillus plays a dominant role and the vagina is acidic, so the various bacterial flora in the vagina can restrain each other and women do not get sick. However, if anti-inflammatory drugs are used in large quantities, the normal bacteria in the vagina will be killed, and the pathogenic bacteria that cause vaginitis will grow rampantly. Moreover, indiscriminate use of drugs before it is clear which pathogenic bacteria are "rebelling" will only be counterproductive.

If you suffer from vaginitis, the correct approach is to see a regular hospital in time, take vaginal secretions for testing, and find out which pathogens are causing the vaginitis. If necessary, vaginal bacterial culture + drug sensitivity test, fungal culture + drug sensitivity test, other pathogen tests (such as mycoplasma, chlamydia, etc.) + drug sensitivity test and other tests are needed. Based on these test results, clinicians will prescribe corresponding drugs for the bacteria to treat the disease.