What to do if a woman has abnormal leucorrhea

Leucorrhea is a unique secretion and physiological tissue in the female body. The color of the vaginal discharge is normally white or light yellow. If it is yellow or particularly thick, or has an odor, then don't hesitate any longer, your reproductive organs must be suffering from a disease, so go to the hospital for examination and treatment. Today, a gynecologist will analyze in detail several common abnormal leucorrhea phenomena for you. Please follow the editor to learn together.

1. Colorless, transparent, sticky leucorrhea: It is egg white-like and similar in properties to the mucus secreted by the cervical glands during ovulation, but the amount of secretion is significantly increased compared to usual. Generally, the possibility of chronic endocervicitis, ovarian dysfunction, vaginal adenosis, or well-differentiated cervical adenocarcinoma should be considered.

2. White or grayish yellow foamy leucorrhea: It is a characteristic of Trichomonas vaginitis and may be accompanied by vulvar itching.

3. Curd-like leucorrhea: It is a characteristic of candidal vaginitis, often accompanied by severe vulvar itching or burning pain.

4. Gray homogeneous leucorrhea with fishy smell: thin, small to large amount, unpleasant smell, commonly seen in bacterial vaginosis.

5. Purulent leucorrhea: yellow or yellow-green in color, sticky, and often smelly. It can be caused by acute vaginitis, cervicitis, and endocervicitis caused by bacteria such as Trichomonas or gonococci. Pyometra, cervical cancer, vaginal cancer or foreign objects retained in the vagina can also cause pus-like leucorrhea.

6. Bloody leucorrhea: If there is blood mixed in the leucorrhea, cervical cancer, endometrial cancer, cervical polyps or submucosal fibroids should be considered. Insertion of an intrauterine device can also cause bloody leucorrhea.

7. Watery leucorrhea: If watery leucorrhea like rice washing water continues to flow out and is accompanied by a foul odor, it is usually due to advanced cervical cancer, vaginal cancer, or submucosal fibroids with infection. If you have intermittent discharge of yellow or red watery vaginal discharge, you should be aware of the possibility of fallopian tube cancer.

Abnormal leucorrhea must be a manifestation of a disease in the reproductive organs of the body. While we try to understand the signals our bodies are sending us, we must also improve our health awareness, learn health knowledge, and be able to see the big picture from the subtle details. Only by not panicking when we see signals in our bodies and by getting timely checks and treatments can we recover our health soon.