Cervicitis is a kind of gynecological inflammation, gynecological inflammation as a common disease of women, mainly refers to the inflammation of female reproductive organs.
Cervicitis, more common in women of reproductive age, is caused by cervical injury and pathogen invasion, including cervical vaginal inflammation and cervical mucous membrane inflammation. Clinical cervicitis is divided into acute and chronic two, chronic cervicitis is more.
Acute cervicitis is mainly manifested as increased vaginal secretion, mucopurulent, cervical swelling, cervical canal mucosal edema, often accompanied by acute vaginitis or acute endometritis.
Chronic cervicitis has leucorrhea increase, lower abdomen or lumbosacral pain, cervical erosion, cervical hypertrophy, cervical polyps, cervical gland cyst and cervical ectropion and other manifestations.
There are many causes of cervicitis, mainly as follows:
Acute cervicitis: neisseria gonorrhoeae, chlamydia trachomatis, staphylococcus, streptococcus, escherichia coli and trichomonas, candida, amoeba and other pathogens caused by infection.
Chronic cervicitis: chronic cervicitis may be caused by acute cervical inflammation or by persistent infection of pathogens.
Unclean sex life, estrogen level drop, vaginal foreign body long-term stimulation can cause chronic cervicitis.
Abortion, childbirth, vaginal surgery injury cervical secondary infection, but also do not cause acute symptoms, and directly occur chronic cervicitis.
Cervicitis does great harm to women's health, not only leading to women's physical health, but also leading to women's psychological problems. The dangers of cervicitis include:
1, may cause infertility: long drag to cervical erosion, affect sperm activity, causing infertility.
2, easy to cause abortion: cervicitis will make tissue changes, elasticity decline, make the labor process is not smooth, leading to abortion.
3, easy to cause complications: cause cervical erosion, pathogens can cause endometritis, chronic pelvic inflammatory disease, pain in urine, frequent urination or dysuria and other stimulation symptoms.