What are the symptoms of female genitalia?

Speaking of genital warts, I believe everyone is very scared. There are many reasons why people suffer from genital warts. The most common reason is bad sexual behavior. Young people nowadays have more open ideas and are more confused in sexual behavior, which makes them easy to be infected with genital warts. It is also related to factors such as decreased personal immunity. So if a woman develops genital warts, what symptoms will appear?

What are the symptoms of female genitalia?

Female patients are greatly harmed by genital warts. When genital warts occur on the vulva of women, the most typical symptom is that there are very few soft and tiny pink papules in the early stage of the disease. Then, as the disease progresses, they will further increase in number and size, and the papules will merge or overlap with each other. The surface looks very uneven, like a wart. Because some areas are very humid and hot and have chronic irritation, the warts will grow rapidly and eventually become shapes of different sizes, such as nipple-shaped, cauliflower-shaped, cockscomb-shaped or mushroom-shaped. These warts are very soft and will bleed easily when touched.

During the onset of genital warts, some patients produce white, dirty or red secretions that soak into the surface of the warts, causing great inconvenience to the lives of female patients. The root of the wart is very narrow and has a stalk. The surface is also very moist, and there is often exudation, erosion, and skin damage. At the same time, there are very purulent secretions pushed inside the cracks, so bacterial infection is very likely to occur, and there is also a very strong foul odor. The symptoms women feel are that the affected area is very itchy, with a burning sensation or a feeling of pressure.

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1. Acetic acid white test

Apply 3-5% acetic acid to the wart for 2-5 minutes and the lesion will turn white and slightly raised. Anal lesions may take 15 minutes. The principle of this test is the result of protein coagulation and whitening with acid. The keratin produced by HPV-infected cells is different from that produced by normal uninfected epithelial cells, and only the former can be decolorized by acetic acid. The acetic acid white test has a high sensitivity in detecting HPV and is better than conventional testing in observing histological changes. However, false positives occasionally occur in cases of epithelial thickening or traumatic abrasions, and false positive blanching signs appear ill-defined and irregular. The US CDC reminds that the acetic acid white test is not a specific test and false positives are common.

2. Immunohistological examination

The peroxidase antiperoxidase method (PAP) is commonly used to show viral proteins in warts to prove the presence of viral antigens in wart lesions. When HPV protein is positive, a weak red positive reaction may appear in the superficial epithelial cells of genital warts.

3. Histochemical Examination

A small amount of lesion tissue is taken to make a smear and stained with specific anti-human papillomavirus antibodies. If there is viral antigen in the lesion, the antigen-antibody will bind in the peroxidase antiperoxidase (PAP) method and the nucleus can be stained red. This method is highly specific and rapid, which is helpful for diagnosis.