Does vulvar leukoplakia need to be treated?

After getting sick, our first reaction is to seek treatment. For those serious diseases, people tend to actively look for good treatments. However, some diseases that do not seem serious are often ignored. Although vulvar leukoplakia is not a life-threatening disease, it also requires active treatment. Next, we will introduce you to the treatment of vulvar leukoplakia in detail.

Vulvar leukoplakia is a gynecological disease caused by local loss of pigmentation of the female vulva skin, resulting in whitening, roughness, thickening, hardening, cracking, desquamation of the skin and mucous membranes, or decreased elasticity of the vulvar skin and mucous membranes, and even atrophy and disappearance of the labia majora and minora. It is systematically divided into four types: hyperplasia, atrophy, mixed, and lichenified. Among them, the hyperplasia type is prone to cancer. When the atrophy type is severe, it causes narrowing of the vaginal opening and loss of sexual desire, affecting normal married life. The condition is mild in the early stages and requires active and targeted treatment to avoid long delays in treatment.

Vulvar leukoplakia is a chronic disease, a process of pigment regeneration and recovery. It cannot be cured overnight. The therapeutic effect of vulvar leukoplakia cannot be achieved according to a certain course of treatment. Maintaining an optimistic attitude is a very important process in the treatment of vulvar leukoplakia.

Vulvar itching, sometimes with burning and pain. Leukoplakia vulvae is also called vulvar white lesions, which is a chronic female vulvar malnutrition disease. It includes primary vulvar atrophy, atrophic lichen sclerosus, vulvar leukoplakia, leukoplakia vaginitis, and vulvar dryness. Clinicians usually refer to vulvar diseases that are white and thick and atrophic to the skin and sticky touch as vulvar leukoplakia. Chinese medicine calls it yin moss, yin sore, yin erosion, and yin pain. This disease is a precancerous lesion.

The above content is an introduction to the treatment of vulvar leukoplakia. For a disease, we may know too little, so some wrong practices may occur during the treatment process. For healthy people, they must pay attention to the cleanliness of their private parts in daily life to reduce the possibility of disease.