What harm does mycoplasma vaginitis cause?

Mycoplasma are bacteria that can infect multiple organs in the body. Mycoplasma vaginitis is the most common. After the onset of the disease, it is easy to cause vaginal itching spots and various gynecological diseases. Severe cases can cause fallopian tube occlusion and endometrial inflammation, leading to infertility in many patients. Therefore, mycoplasma vaginitis is very harmful. In normal times, we should not only pay attention to the transmission route, but also go to the hospital for detailed examination and treatment in time. This will not only prevent the disease from worsening again due to adverse contact, but also make plans early.

The harm of mycoplasma vaginitis

1. Vaginal itching: After mycoplasma infection reaches the urinary and reproductive system, the symptoms in men and women are different. In female patients, the disease often spreads from the cervix to other parts of the body. When mucopurulent cervicitis occurs, it manifests as increased leucorrhea, and occasionally symptoms such as vulvar and vaginal itching, and lower abdominal discomfort.

2. Secondary chronic prostatitis: After mycoplasma infection through the urethra, patients may experience symptoms of urethritis and may develop secondary chronic prostatitis. In women, the cervix and Bartholin's glands may be seen, causing urethritis and Bartholin's glanditis.

3. Cause gynecological inflammation: When women are infected with mycoplasma, it will mainly cause cervicitis. Common complications include endometritis, salpingitis and pelvic inflammatory disease. If long-term chronic inflammation of the fallopian tubes is not treated in time, it will lead to infertility. Even if they conceive, women often suffer from ectopic pregnancy due to blocked fallopian tubes.

4. Causes infertility: Mycoplasma is an important factor in infertility. Although its mechanism is complex, it has not yet been fully clarified. In addition, it enters the female reproductive tract through sexual intercourse, causing endometritis, salpingitis, oophoritis, spontaneous abortion and intrauterine fetal death, affecting fertility and leading to female infertility.

There are many ways to spread the symptoms of mycoplasma vaginitis, but there are three common ones:

1. Infection through direct contact. It is mainly transmitted through sexual contact in adults. The site of infection in adult males is the urethral mucosa, and the site of infection in adult females is the cervix.

2. Indirect contact infection, using clothes, bedding, towels, bathtubs, flush toilets, etc. used by patients with non-gonococcal urethritis, as well as birth canal infection.

3. Birth canal infection. Newborns are infected through the mother's reproductive tract during delivery, mainly causing conjunctivitis and pneumonia in newborns.

Basic symptoms

The incubation period is 1-3 weeks. The typical acute symptoms are similar to those of other non-gonococcal genitourinary tract infections, including urethral stinging, varying degrees of urgency and frequency of urination, and stinging during urination, especially when the urine is more concentrated. The urethral opening is slightly red and swollen, and the secretions are thin, small in amount, and are serous or purulent. The urethra needs to be squeezed hard to see the secretions overflow. There is often a small amount of mucous secretions at the urethral opening in the morning, or only a scab membrane seals the opening, or a dirty crotch is seen.

Mycoplasma vaginitis is often a reproductive system inflammation that spreads from the cervix. Most patients have no obvious subjective symptoms, and a few severe patients have a feeling of vaginal prolapse. When the infection spreads to the urethra, frequent urination and urgency are the main symptoms that attract the patient's attention. When the infection is confined to the cervix, symptoms include increased leucorrhea, turbidity, cervical edema, congestion, or surface erosion. When the infection spreads to the urethra, symptoms include redness and congestion of the urethral opening. A small amount of secretions may overflow from the urethra when the urethra is squeezed, but tenderness rarely occurs.

A common complication of mycoplasma infection is salpingitis, and a small number of patients may develop endometritis and pelvic inflammatory disease.