Itching in the vagina is an unpleasant sensation that can accompany many diseases of the female genitalia. You can scratch yourself inside the vagina or enter it. These sensations can arise after sex or the process of urination.
Coughing of the vagina - what does it say?
- First, itchy sensations can arise trite due to non-observance of intimate hygiene, infrequent change of underwear, wearing strings, synthetic or too tight panties.
- Frequent douches, the use of various ointments, suppositories with a contraceptive effect can change the microflora of the vagina and, as a result, cause itching and the desire to scratch this intimate place.
- Itching can cause emotional stress, stress, taking certain medications, using a certain brand of tampons or pads.
If you eliminate the irritation factors, then the itch passes without a trace.
But in some cases, the cause of the itch is not so harmless.
- The fact that itches and hurts the vagina, can speak of the presence of such non-gynecological diseases as diabetes , hypothyroidism, hepatitis, renal failure, iron deficiency anemia, leukemia, and lymphogranulomatosis.
- The vagina can be itchy in women during the menopause due to the thinning of the mucosa due to a lack of estrogens in the body.
- If the vagina is strongly itchy and there are white colors and curdled discharge consistency, then, most likely, candidiasis is a disease that is caused by a yeast-like fungus.
- If the vagina and small labia scratches, there are brownish, yellowish or white discharge, then, probably, it is vaginosis.
- Itching of the vagina can cause a variety of sexual infections: gonorrhea, trichomoniasis, chlamydia, genital herpes and others.
- Other causes of itching include: cervicitis, genital warts, colpitis, kraurosis , tumors of the vagina and uterus.
What to do if itches the vagina?
If the itching of the vagina, then without delay, you need to contact a specialist. To determine the cause of this phenomenon will require the implementation of various laboratory tests: blood, smear.
In any case, with treatment, it is not necessary to tighten, as permanent combing will ultimately lead to a disruption of the integrity of its mucosa, which will be a fertile soil for the multiplication of many pathogenic bacteria and the development of a new infection.