Why do girls have leucorrhea?

During each cycle of a woman's sexual organs maturing due to the shedding of epithelial cells, bleeding and leucorrhea will occur, which we call menstruation. Leucorrhea occurs when the surface layer of epithelial cells falls off. It is an important sign for detecting a woman's physical condition and is normal. Mothers have the responsibility to help their daughters understand some of the changes happening in their bodies and provide family sex education.

Women often use the regularity of menstruation as a criterion for judging whether their private parts are healthy. In fact, the health of women's private parts can also be judged by the condition of leucorrhea. For example, some women report that they have leucorrhea at many times, unlike other people who only have leucorrhea for a few days. So do women usually have leucorrhea? How should women judge whether their leucorrhea is abnormal? Let’s take a brief look at it below!

If we ask the question whether women normally have leucorrhea, we first need to understand when it is normal for women to have leucorrhea. Many people think that leucorrhea appears during the ovulation period. In fact, this is not entirely true. In addition to leucorrhea in women during the ovulation period, leucorrhea also appears before and after menstruation. However, due to the different physiques of each person and different daily diets, the amount of leucorrhea is also different.

Normal leucorrhea is milky white or light yellow, odorless or with a slightly fishy smell. Before and after menstruation, as well as during ovulation, there may be a small amount of blood in the leucorrhea. Before menstruation, it indicates that menstruation is about to come. After menstruation, when the leucorrhea contains blood, it is because the menstruation has not yet been completely gone. It is also a normal physiological phenomenon that the leucorrhea contains blood during ovulation.

However, when the patient has leucorrhea for a long time, or the color of the patient's leucorrhea becomes abnormal, turning gray or green, or there is blood streaks for a long time, it is often because the woman has gynecological inflammation. If a woman has vaginal secretions for a long time, it is not necessarily leucorrhea, but may be secretions caused by inflammatory stimulation. It is recommended to go to the hospital for timely diagnosis of the condition and actively receive treatment. Because many gynecological diseases will not affect menstruation. Even if they have been diagnosed, the menstrual cycle and amount will not be affected, so abnormal leucorrhea should be taken seriously.