What causes itchy genital skin?

Gynecological diseases have always been a troublesome disease for many women, especially when the genital skin is itchy, it is very embarrassing. You want to scratch it but can't, and the itching is unbearable. What is the cause of genital skin itching? This is an issue that many women are concerned about. Let me introduce it to you below!

The causes of female genital itching include:

1. Local skin uncleanness: Some women use toilet paper improperly, and the skin of the vulva is soaked by menstrual blood, vaginal secretions, and even urine, feces and sweat, which causes chronic inflammation of the local skin and causes vulva itching.

2. Trichomonas vaginalis infection: When the acidity of the female vaginal mucosa decreases, the production of lactic acid decreases, making vaginal Trichomonas infection more likely to occur, which manifests as foamy leucorrhea and itching of the vulva.

3. Fungal infection: For women with diabetes or long-term use of antibiotics that cause imbalance of normal flora, Candida albicans in the fungus can easily invade the vulva and vagina, causing fungal vulvar and vaginitis, often with bean curd-like leucorrhea and vulvar itching.

4. Parasitic infection: Pinworms mainly attack young girls, but adult women can also be infected. When the anus relaxes at night, pinworms crawl out of the rectum and swim to the vulva to mate and lay eggs, irritating the skin and mucous membranes of the vulva, causing local itching. When scabies is caused by scabies infection, the external skin lesions are the most serious, so local itching is also the most obvious. Pubic lice are manifested by severe itching in the area where pubic hair grows, and grayish-white millet-sized nits or lice may be found at the base of the pubic hair or on the hair shafts.

5. Drug rash: "Fixed drug rash" caused by women with allergic constitution taking sulfonamides or other drugs often occurs at the junction of the skin and mucous membrane of the vulva. In addition to local itching, it may be complicated by erosion and exudation. Vulvar itching may also occur if allergic reactions and contact dermatitis occur when using drugs for vaginal washing or vaginal insertion.

6. Skin diseases of the vulva: The skin lesions of tinea cruris often extend to the vulva, causing severe local itching. The local itching caused by vulvar eczema and neurodermatitis is more severe. The former is manifested as papules and blisters with unclear local skin boundaries and erosion exudate, while the latter often causes thickening of the skin with lichenification due to scratching. In addition to causing local itching, leukoplakia of the vulva is often accompanied by vulvar malnutrition and skin atrophy.

7. Viral infection: Genital warts mostly occur in the female vaginal wall, cervix and vulva, and also cause foul-smelling leucorrhea. Molluscum contagiosum occurring in the vulva often presents as round papules with an umbilical-like depression in the center, and may also cause itching in the vulva.

After reading the editor's introduction, I believe you have a certain understanding of the itching of the genital skin. If you have this condition, it is best to go to the hospital's gynecology department for a detailed examination in time to find out the cause of the skin itching and symptomatic treatment is better. In addition, you must pay attention to personal hygiene and change and wash your underwear frequently.