What to do if you are allergic to vulvar medication

Some women will go to the hospital to buy vulva cleansers when cleaning their vulva, but the female vulva is very sensitive. If the vulva cleanser is more irritating, it will cause vulva allergies in women. After the allergy, women will feel itchy, red and swollen, which is very uncomfortable. Some women need to apply medicine on the vulva when treating gynecological diseases, and they may also experience vulva medication allergies. So what should you do if you are allergic to vulva medications?

1. Medication

(1) Antihistamines: The results of preventive antihistamine treatment are mixed, and almost no oral antihistamines are effective for allergic vaginitis. Open and double-blind studies of antihistamine treatment are lacking.

(2) Cromolyn: In some women with allergic vaginitis, topical treatment with mast cell stabilizers can also slow the onset of symptoms. Patients with mild symptoms can use it before sexual intercourse, similar to antihistamines, but there is also a lack of open and double-blind studies to prove its exact effectiveness.

(3) Corticosteroids: used to completely control symptoms in one patient who failed antihistamine treatment.

2. Immunotherapy

(1) Inhalation therapy: A series of people believe that inhalation therapy is one of the immunotherapy methods to relieve the symptoms of allergic vaginitis. Mainly used for allergic reactions caused by pollen and house dust mites.

(2) Candida albicans: 177 women with recurrent vaginal candidiasis who were treated with Candida albicans allergens had direct skin tests that were positive for Candida albicans, and the symptom relief rate was 65% to 80%. All patients were treated with this treatment after failure of other treatments. This treatment seems to be the only option for this type of patients, so there is currently a lack of double-blind controlled analysis studies on Candida albicans immunotherapy.

(3) Human seminal plasma: Subcutaneous immunotherapy using whole seminal plasma or semen fragments. This treatment method has a 100% success rate. The vaginal route is another option. Before 1999, there were three successful cases of vaginal desensitization treatment using human seminal plasma. There is a 3-day interval between each course of treatment, and the desensitization state must be maintained during each course of treatment.

3. Treatment of patients allergic to human seminal plasma or to both seminal plasma and latex Treatment of seminal plasma allergy includes condom contraception, systemic antihistamines and vaginal pretreatment with sodium cromoglycate. Immunotherapy with allergen proteins from the spouse's seminal plasma may be considered. Immunotherapy is not recommended for patients with local reactions. Some women are allergic to both semen and latex. They can use condoms made of sheep intestine, but such condoms cannot prevent HIV infection. Men use double-layer condoms, with a non-latex condom as the outer layer and a latex condom as the inner layer.