Slime from the vagina

A healthy woman is normal and should have mucous discharge from the vagina .

Slime from the vagina is normal

  1. Normally, mucosal discharge may be yellowish or slightly cloudy.
  2. Most often, white mucus from the vagina is allocated on the eve of ovulation.
  3. In the first half of the cycle, mucus from the vagina is dense and stretching in small amounts.
  4. Liquid and transparent mucus from the vagina can appear during sexual arousal.
  5. In the second half of the cycle, the vaginal mucus is creamy, it becomes larger before the monthly mucus.
  6. Dense mucus from the vagina, which is secreted by clots of a yellowish color, happens after unprotected sex. After a few hours, these discharges are liquid and white in large quantities.
  7. After a secure act of the vagina comes mucus in a very small amount of white.
  8. If the mucus is discharged from the vagina with blood veins at the end of the menstrual cycle, then this is the precursor of the onset of menstruation.
  9. After giving birth, not only mucus comes from the vagina, but also the succulent discharge - the lochia .

Slime from the vagina in pathological processes

Mucus in various diseases can change color (from brown to greenish), it can have an unpleasant smell, secretions can cause itching or irritation of the genital tract, contain impurities of pus or blood.

  1. The most dangerous thing is the appearance of blood along with mucous secretions, for example, during pregnancy, this indicates a detachment of the fetus or miscarriage. Even brown discharge or clots without fresh blood can indicate a threat of miscarriage or fetal death.
  2. After an abortion or childbirth, a large amount of fresh blood and mucus may be a sign of uterine bleeding.
  3. Before or after the sexual intercourse, such discharges indicate erosion of the cervix (usually a little blood, only veins in a lot of mucus).
  4. A brown spotting before or after menstruation can be a sign of endometriosis.
  5. Very characteristic discharge of mucus that resemble cottage cheese and cause itching and irritation of the genital tract, with a sour smell, can occur with candidiasis (thrush).
  6. In inflammatory diseases, the discharge is yellowish or greenish, resembling purulent, often with an unpleasant odor.
  7. But trichomonas infection is characterized by a foamy discharge, with bubbles, in large quantities.
  8. With oncological diseases with the release of mucus, bloody and purulent with clots, sometimes with a very unpleasant odor.

The appearance of any discharge from the vagina, which can not be called normal - this is an occasion to turn to a gynecologist.