There is a difference between cervical erosion and cervical hypertrophy, women must know!

Cervical erosion and cervical hypertrophy both fall under the category of female cervicitis, but there are great differences between the two, and many women are not very clear about this. In fact, there are great differences between cervical erosion and cervical hypertrophy in concepts, symptoms and hazards. Cervical erosion and hypertrophy are very harmful to women's health. Female friends must pay attention!

1. Conceptually

Cervical hypertrophy: refers to the inflammation caused by pathogens infecting the cervical mucosa in women.

Cervical erosion: It is the ulceration of the cervical surface caused by unhygienic female sexual life, excessive vaginal washing, and infection after childbirth or abortion.

In other words, cervical hypertrophy is caused by infection with the pathogen itself, while cervical erosion is mostly caused by external infection. The two should belong to different concepts.

2. From the perspective of symptoms

Cervical hypertrophy: often accompanied by symptoms such as abnormal leucorrhea, irregular menstruation, and bleeding during sexual intercourse.

Cervical erosion: accompanied by increased and sticky leucorrhea, frequent urination, urgency, and pain when urinating, itchy and painful vulva, pain in the lumbar and sacral region, dysmenorrhea, and infertility.

3. From the perspective of harm

Cervical hypertrophy: can cause female infertility, affect normal delivery, cause bleeding during sexual intercourse, and even transform into cervical cancer.

Cervical erosion: In addition to causing female infertility, bleeding during sexual intercourse, and cancer, it can also cause other gynecological complications in women, such as miscarriage.