How is vulvar dystrophy treated?

When it comes to vulvar malnutrition, you may not be familiar with this name. It is also called vulvar leukoplakia. Its main symptom is vulvar itching. This is not just a symptom, it is actually a gynecological disease with relatively serious harm. If it is not taken seriously and treated in time, it will cause a great threat to the health of the body. So how to treat this vulvar dystrophy? The following will give you a detailed introduction.

The most prominent symptom of vulvar dystrophy is vulvar itching. It is more severe at night. The degree of itching is related to time, menstruation, climate, food, environment, and mood. The itching is usually intermittent and patients often scratch constantly due to the extreme itching. Sometimes patients experience local burning and pain.

1. First rule out vulvar itching caused by diabetes, mold, etc. It is understood that vulvar malnutrition may be related to systemic diseases such as diabetes and endocrine disorders. If you are a diabetic patient, in addition to treating vulvar malnutrition, you must also actively control blood sugar to alleviate the problem fundamentally.

2. Drug treatment: What methods are commonly used to treat vulvar malnutrition? The treatment of vulvar leukoplakia should first pay attention to dietary taboos. Avoid spicy and irritating foods. Eat more seafood containing more trace elements such as walnuts, sesame seeds, mushrooms, tofu, green vegetables, fungus, carrots, lean meat, pig blood, oysters, conchs and sea cucumbers, etc., which contain more iron, copper, manganese, etc. Keep a good mood. Pay attention to regulating life stress and emotions in daily life. Stay optimistic, cheerful and get enough sleep. In this regard, the patient's family should actively cooperate to help them build up confidence in overcoming the disease, which has a great impact on the treatment effect of vulvar leukoplakia.

3. Physical treatment: microwave therapy, carbon dioxide laser and helium-neon laser, Bohm light, frequency-doubled photodynamic therapy, high-frequency electric knife, local electrocautery therapy and liquid nitrogen local cryotherapy, etc.

4. Because vulvar malnutrition is mostly related to the local environment of the vulva, such as inflammation, moisture and other stimuli, if the above treatments are not effective, check whether these factors are interfering.

5. Surgical treatment: If precancerous lesions are found, surgical treatment is recommended. Simple vulvectomy or vulvectomy combined with skin grafting can be performed.

Through the above article's detailed description of the symptoms and treatments of vulvar dystrophy, we hope that the above methods and suggestions can be helpful to people with this symptom. If you find yourself having the symptoms mentioned above, you must take it seriously and go to the hospital for examination and diagnosis in time to avoid causing greater harm to your body.