Causes of yellow discharge

Some female friends may encounter yellow discharge in their lives. This is mainly because you have abnormal menstrual patterns and increased leucorrhea. Therefore, we recommend that female friends should treat the occurrence of yellow discharge in a timely manner. When we find yellow secretions, we should pay attention to whether we have irregular menstruation and other conditions, and then regulate our body in time.

Whether the leucorrhea is normal should be observed in terms of quantity, color, texture and smell. Normal leucorrhea should be milky white or colorless and transparent, with a slightly fishy smell or no smell; its secretion amount and texture are affected by the levels of estrogen and progesterone in the body, and vary cyclically with the menstrual cycle, with varying amounts, textures and thicknesses.

Generally, the amount of leucorrhea is less after the menstrual period; before ovulation, the increase in estrogen levels in the body promotes the proliferation of epithelial cells of the cervical glands, the secretion of cervical mucus increases, and the sodium chloride content in the mucus increases, which can absorb more water, causing the leucorrhea to increase during ovulation, and the texture is thin, clear, and looks like egg white, which can be stretched into long threads; after ovulation, estrogen levels gradually decrease, progesterone levels increase, the secretion of cervical mucus is inhibited, and the sodium chloride content in the mucus also decreases, making the leucorrhea at this time thick, milky white, with poor ductility, and easy to break when drawn. In addition, there are some physiological phenomena, such as pregnancy and oral contraceptives, which can cause an increase in vaginal discharge. The cause is also related to changes in estrogen and progesterone levels in the body.

If your vaginal discharge increases for no apparent reason, or is accompanied by changes in color, texture, or odor, you should be alert. Common causes of increased vaginal discharge include:

1) In case of candidal vaginitis, the leucorrhea is yellow or white in color, and most of the time it is thick, but sometimes it can be thin. The typical leucorrhea is like tofu dregs or curds.

2) The leucorrhea of ​​Trichomonas vaginitis is pus-like, yellow in color, and foamy, or like rice water, grayish white in color, and has a foul odor.

3) When the cervix is ​​eroded, the leucorrhea is usually yellow in color, sticky like pus, and usually odorless.

4) The leucorrhea of ​​gonorrhea is yellow and pus-like.

5) When suffering from pelvic inflammatory diseases such as endometritis, the amount of leucorrhea will increase, become yellow in color, and be thin in texture, often accompanied by abdominal pain.

6) When suffering from fallopian tube cancer, watery leucorrhea will appear continuously because the tumor stimulates the fallopian tube epithelium to exude fluid and cause necrosis of the diseased tissue.

Likewise, decreased vaginal discharge is not normal. If the amount of leucorrhea in women of childbearing age is reduced to a level that cannot meet people's physiological needs, causing the patients to often feel dryness and discomfort in the vulva, it is a pathological condition, often caused by ovarian dysfunction and decreased secretion of sex hormones. Postmenopausal women often feel dry vulva and no vaginal discharge. This is a normal phenomenon caused by ovarian atrophy and a significant decrease in sex hormone secretion.

Furthermore, changes in the color of vaginal discharge should also be noted. Generally, the leucorrhea caused by inflammation is mostly yellow; red discharge refers to the leucorrhea containing blood or light pink, which may occur in diseases such as cervicitis, vaginitis, bleeding during intercourse or cervical cancer.

Female friends can remember the causes of yellow discharge introduced in the article, because you may encounter the phenomenon of yellow discharge at any time in your life. Generally, the occurrence of yellow secretions is mainly caused by the fact that female friends have not developed good living habits in their lives. I hope you can correct them.