Vulvit in girls is an inflammatory process of the external genitalia, which has an infectious base and is quite common. In the case of such a disease, parents should immediately go to the district pediatrician or gynecologist, as delays are fraught with serious consequences. However, it is often the ignorance of the vulvitis symptoms in girls that prevents timely diagnosis and treatment of the disease.
The causes of vulvitis in girls
The main reason is similar in nature to the one that provokes an adult vulvitis, namely, an inflammatory or infectious process. However, often the children's form of the disease is caused not by pathogenic microbes, but by those that initially live in the microflora of the vagina: intestinal rods, yeast fungi or staphylococci. But in order for their activities to become abnormal, there must be certain indirect factors, for example:
- primary vulvitis in a girl of 3 years old or at any other age, may appear due to infection from outside. This is explained by the instability and immaturity of the microflora of the vagina, the non-observance of hygiene rules or the presence of pinworms that carry the infection from the rectum;
- Secondary vulvitis develops against the background of the already existing infectious process.
Very rarely among children, you can meet the allergic form of this disease, which appears due to eating unusual foods.
Symptoms of vulvitis in girls
The signs of this disease are quite typical, which simplifies the process of self-diagnosis:
- swelling and redness of the labia, which extends to the groin, pubis, inner thighs and clitoris;
- itching, soreness and burning, which intensify with awkward movement, urination or touch;
- often appear sores and erosion;
- allocation, which can have the most diverse color and smell, which depends on the causative agent of the disease;
- may increase lymph nodes or fever;
- poor sleep, nervousness and overexcitability of the child.
Treatment of children's vulvitis
The child simply has to undergo a comprehensive study to determine the cause of this state of health. After this, the doctor develops an individual treatment tactic, which involves fighting with inflammation itself and the disease as such.
Acute vulvitis means complete bed rest and taking antibacterial drugs. The latter can be presented as antibiotics in the form of pills or injections. If vulvitis is fungal in nature, then there is a need to use ointments and creams.
Girls are prescribed very thorough hygiene of the genitals, which requires the use of lotions, baths and tinctures of antiseptic herbs and preparations. The side effects of the disease require the use of ointments and suppositories that have antipruritic results. Also, taking sedatives and hypnotics is not superfluous.
Allergic vulvitis in girls, which was established by finding the allergen,
Possible complications of vulvitis at an early age:
- adhesion of small labia;
- adhesion or gluing of the walls of the vagina;
- the formation of scars after ulcers, which can further complicate sexual contact with a man;
- Cystitis , which is the result of the movement of infection in the urinary tract;
- chronic vulvitis provokes cyanosis of the external genitalia in a small girl.