How to treat cervical erosion

In the past, when many women went for gynecological examinations, they would often hear that they had symptoms of cervical erosion. This was very worrying. How could the symptoms of cervical erosion appear for no reason? However, we have now cancelled the name of the disease cervical erosion, and the term cervical erosion has disappeared. So should cervical erosion be treated? How to treat cervical erosion?

Many patients with cervical erosion have always had a question: is it necessary to treat cervical erosion? In fact, most cervical erosion does not need to be treated. Some of the methods we know for treating cervical erosion are incorrect.

Cervical erosion was once a disease that troubled many women. If you go for a physical examination, you will almost certainly be diagnosed with cervical erosion. In 2008, the 7th edition of the undergraduate textbook "Obstetrics and Gynecology" cancelled the disease name "cervical erosion" and replaced it with the physiological phenomenon of "cervical columnar epithelium ectopia". Cervical erosion, after all, is actually a misunderstanding of a normal manifestation of the cervix in the past.

Cervical columnar epithelium ectopia is a normal physiological phenomenon and has no special clinical manifestations. Some people may experience contact bleeding, but this is just an individual difference in the cervix, just like some people will bleed from their teeth or mouth when they chew something hard.

If the amount of vaginal discharge increases, becomes yellow, and has an odor, it is a sign of cervical inflammation. The cyst and hypertrophy of the cervix are also the result of chronic cervical inflammation.

Cervical columnar epithelium ectopia does not require any treatment, and many current methods of treating cervical erosion are wrong. But for symptomatic cervicitis, treatment is needed. Acute inflammation is treated with suppositories, while chronic inflammation can be treated with physical therapy such as laser or freezing.

Regular examination of the cervix is ​​necessary, not to prevent cervical erosion, but to prevent cervical cancer. The occurrence of cervical cancer is related to infection with human papillomavirus (HPV). Some patients infected with high-risk HPV are prone to precancerous lesions and cervical cancer when they are persistently infected in the squamous-columnar junction of the cervix. Since the advent of cervical smear testing, the mortality rate of cervical cancer has dropped significantly. The key is early prevention and treatment. It is currently recommended that women over the age of 21 should undergo a cervical smear test once a year. After the age of 30, an HPV test can be combined. If three consecutive HPV and cervical smear tests are negative, the interval can be extended to once every three years. Screening can be stopped after the age of 65.

Above we introduced what cervical erosion is. We know that cervical erosion is no longer the name of a disease, and the term cervical erosion has disappeared. Therefore, if female friends are diagnosed with cervical erosion, most of them do not need treatment. The above article introduces in detail how to treat cervical erosion.