What happens if there is still a small amount of blood one week after the menstrual period ends?

A woman's menstruation comes once a month. Sometimes the bleeding is heavier, sometimes less. This is related to the woman's physical health. Especially after suffering from gynecological diseases, menstruation is likely to become very abnormal, or even no menstruation for two months, which has a great impact on women's lives. Clinically, a small amount of blood one week after the menstrual period is usually a manifestation of cervical erosion, so what is the cause?

Cause of cervical erosion: unclean sexual life

Unmarried women are protected by the barrier of the hymen, and the microecological environment in their vagina is in balance. Even if pathogens invade, they are unlikely to cause trouble, so cervical erosion rarely occurs. Once you have sex, the vagina is in a relatively "open" state. During sexual intercourse, the penis and cervix are in direct contact. If men do not pay attention to sexual hygiene, they can directly bring bacteria into the vagina and infect the cervix. For women who already have cervical erosion, it can aggravate their cervical inflammation, expand the erosion area, and in severe cases, bleeding during sexual intercourse may occur. Therefore, men are to blame for the cause of cervical erosion. Therefore, men must be persuaded to clean their external genitalia before having sex.

Cause 2 of cervical erosion: multiple artificial abortions

More importantly, repeated artificial abortions can cause varying degrees of cervical damage, giving bacteria an opportunity to invade and cause cervicitis. Due to the stimulation of inflammation, local secretions increase, and long-term immersion of the cervix in inflammatory secretions will cause erosion. Therefore, women of childbearing age must take good contraceptive measures, avoid multiple artificial abortions, and prevent the occurrence of cervical erosion. Mild cervical erosion often has no clinical symptoms. Some patients may experience increased vaginal discharge, which may be milky white mucus or yellow pus. Sometimes there may be bloody vaginal discharge or cervical contact bleeding. It generally does not affect fertility, so female friends do not need to worry too much.

Cause three of cervical erosion: excessive cleaning

Some women pay great attention to hygiene, but lack the necessary knowledge and often use high-concentration disinfectant to flush the vagina, which has the opposite effect. Because doing so will not only affect the growth of normal vaginal flora and reduce its ability to inhibit pathogens, but can also cause varying degrees of cervical epithelial damage and eventually erosion. Therefore, the correct way to clean the genitals should be: clean the vulva appropriately, do not flush the vagina unless necessary, maintain the natural defense line of the female reproductive tract, do not destroy the ecological balance in the vagina, and prevent bacteria from causing trouble.