How long can you live with vulvar leukoplakia?

Vulvar leukoplakia is a common gynecological disease. Its main symptoms are decreased immunity and difficulty urinating. Vulvar leukoplakia can also affect vaginal delivery. Therefore, it is recommended that female friends should seek timely treatment for the symptoms of vulvar leukoplakia. Vulvar leukoplakia can be treated with hormone therapy or by microwaves to inhibit bacteria to control the condition, but the disease will not lead to death.

Vulvar leukoplakia is a relatively common gynecological disease. Once patients unfortunately suffer from this disease, they will suffer great pain. This disease not only causes serious harm to the patients' bodies, but also has a great impact on their lives.

With the increase in the number of patients, vulvar leukoplakia has gradually attracted everyone's attention. Vulvar leukoplakia is a very harmful disease that can cause many kinds of discomfort to the patient's body, such as endocrine disorders, reduced immunity, heredity, difficulty urinating, potential vulvar cancer, etc. Vulvar hypopigmentation refers to a group of chronic diseases in which the skin and mucosal tissues of the female vulva undergo degeneration and pigmentation changes. It is also called vulvar white lesions and is often secondary to chronic irritation and inflammation of the vulva. It is more common in people aged 40-60 years. According to statistics, the cancer rate of this disease is about 2%-5%.

The harm of vulvar leukoplakia to patients has the following aspects:

1. Impact on daily routine : Vulvar leukoplakia is harmful to women's physical and mental health. Women are prone to unbearable itching in the vulva after the disease. This itching is mostly paroxysmal, aggravated at night, and often accompanied by discomfort such as vulvar burning and dryness, which seriously affects the patient's sleep at night and normal work progress during the day.

2. Vaginal delivery difficulties : If women suffer from vulvar leukoplakia and ignore the treatment of the disease for a long time, it may affect their normal delivery. Because vulvar leukoplakia can cause the local vulvar skin and mucous membrane to become thinner and swollen, the labia majora and minora to shrink or even disappear, and the vaginal opening to become narrow, thus causing vaginal delivery difficulties.

3. Difficulty in normal urination : The local skin and mucous membrane of the vulva will become thinner, and some patients will experience swelling and edema of the vulva. The labia majora and minora will shrink or even disappear. The atrophy of the vulva will make the vaginal opening narrow, and patients will experience pain during sexual intercourse and difficulty in sexual life, which will seriously affect the quality of the couple's sexual life.

4. Systemic symptoms : The human body is an organically connected whole, so after women suffer from vulvar leukoplakia, other parts of the body will also experience discomfort symptoms, such as loss of appetite, palpitations and shortness of breath, irritability and weakness, chest tightness, insomnia, back pain, and listlessness.

5. Transformation into vulvar cancer : If patients with vulvar leukoplakia do not pay attention to treatment or use improper treatment methods, once the condition worsens, it may develop into vulvar cancer. If the cancer is high, it will endanger the patient's life. Therefore, patients with vulvar leukoplakia must receive timely treatment.

Western medicine treatment of vulvar leukoplakia:

1. Drug treatment : For the treatment of vulvar leucorrhea, the more common treatment method is drug treatment, such as local application of hormone drugs, local injection of anaerobic bacteria and traditional Chinese medicine treatment.

2. Physical therapy : Some patients' conditions cannot be treated with drugs, so they need to be treated with physical therapy. Generally, microwave therapy, carbon dioxide laser and helium-neon laser, Bohm light, high-frequency electric knife, local electrocautery therapy and liquid nitrogen local cryotherapy are used.

3. Surgical treatment : Clinically, vulvar leukoplakia can also be treated through surgical therapy, simple vulvectomy, and vulvectomy combined with skin grafting.