What is cervical hypertrophy? What are the symptoms?

Cervical hypertrophy is one of the common diseases among women. It is also a factor that leads to female infertility. So what is cervical hypertrophy? What are the symptoms?

Causes of cervical hypertrophy:

1. Mucus retention may occur deep in the cervical glands, forming cysts of varying sizes and causing the cervix to become enlarged.

2. Long-term stimulation of chronic inflammation causes congestion and edema of the cervix, and proliferation of cervical glands and stroma, leading to varying degrees of cervical hypertrophy.

3. Infection by pathogens such as mycoplasma, chlamydia, bacteria, viruses, etc.

Symptoms of cervical hypertrophy:

Experts say that cervical hypertrophy can sometimes be 2 to 4 times larger than a normal cervix, and the surface of the cervix can be smooth or eroded. The symptoms of cervical hypertrophy are mainly reflected in women's menstrual problems, such as shortened menstrual cycle, prolonged menstrual period, increased menstrual flow, etc.

Increased vaginal discharge is an important symptom of cervical hypertrophy, mainly characterized by milky white mucous discharge, sometimes yellow or pus-like. When accompanied by polyp formation, bloody vaginal discharge or bleeding after sexual intercourse may occur.

So what are the dangers of cervical hypertrophy in women?

1. Impact on normal life: Patients with severe cervical hypertrophy often experience symptoms of bladder irritation such as bloody leucorrhea, bleeding after sexual intercourse, frequent urination, urgency and pain when urinating, which seriously affect women's daily life. When the inflammatory lesions spread along the uterosacral ligament to the pelvic cavity, there may be discomfort such as lumbar pain, lower abdominal distension and dysmenorrhea, which are aggravated during defecation and sexual intercourse.

2. Impact on pregnancy: The texture of the patient's leucorrhea will change significantly, usually appearing purulent, milky white, or with blood in it, which seriously affects the couple's sex life and may be accompanied by severe pain during sexual intercourse. The sticky leucorrhea is not conducive to the combination of sperm and egg, affecting women's pregnancy and having serious effects on women.

3. Impact on normal delivery: Severe cervical hypertrophy can affect women's normal delivery. Therefore, cervical hypertrophy should be cured before preparing for pregnancy. If the cervical hypertrophy is severe during pregnancy, treatment should be received. If the symptoms are mild, it can be observed.

4. Myometrial vascular sclerosis: primary uterine vascular disease, etc. Continuous stimulation of estrogen can cause thickening of the uterine muscle layer. Clinically, patients with functional uterine bleeding, especially those with a long course of illness, often have varying degrees of uterine enlargement.

5. Cervical cancer. If not checked in time, it will cause early cervical cancer. Patients should go to the hospital's gynecology department in time to have cervical secretions checked and receive symptomatic treatment based on the results.