What is the cause of cervicitis

Generally speaking, when people have unclean sexual intercourse, it often causes inflammation in the female cervix, which is often called cervicitis. In fact, the cause of cervicitis is not only sexual intercourse, but also many other reasons. Therefore, when cervicitis occurs, if people want to avoid further development of inflammation, they need to find the cause of cervicitis. The following is a detailed introduction to the causes of cervicitis.

Cervicitis is one of the common gynecological diseases, including inflammation of the cervical vagina and inflammation of the cervical canal mucosa. Because the squamous epithelium of the vaginal part of the cervical canal is continuous with the squamous phase of the vagina, vaginal inflammation can cause inflammation of the vaginal part of the cervix.

Since the cervical mucosal epithelium is a single-layer columnar epithelium, it has poor resistance to infection and is prone to infection. The most common clinical cervicitis is acute cervical mucositis. If acute cervicitis is not diagnosed and treated in time or the pathogen persists, it can lead to chronic cervicitis.

1. Acute cervicitis

(1) Sexually transmitted disease pathogens Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis are mainly found in people at high risk of sexually transmitted diseases.

(2) Endogenous pathogens Some pathogens of cervicitis are related to bacterial vaginosis pathogens and Mycoplasma genitalium infection.

2. Chronic cervicitis

Chronic cervicitis can be a continuation of acute cervicitis or it can be caused by persistent infection with pathogens similar to those of acute cervicitis.

(1) Chronic endocervical mucositis: The lesions are limited to the endocervical mucosa and submucosal tissue. The vaginal part of the cervix is ​​smooth, with purulent secretions from the external opening. The endocervical mucosa proliferates and protrudes outward. The cervical opening is congested and red, and the cervix is ​​enlarged.

(2) Cervical polyps are caused by chronic inflammation that causes the local mucosa of the cervical canal to proliferate and protrude to the external cervical os.

(3) Chronic inflammation of cervical hypertrophy → repeated congestion and edema of cervical tissue, glandular and stroma hyperplasia → varying degrees of cervical hypertrophy.

Although cervicitis is a common gynecological disease in women, the cause of cervicitis needs to be understood based on the two different classifications of acute and chronic. In other words, the causes of acute cervicitis and chronic cervicitis are different. Therefore, before looking for the cause of cervicitis, patients first need to clarify their own type of symptoms.