Is folliculitis a sexually transmitted disease?

Folliculitis is not a sexually transmitted disease, but a skin disease that often causes patients to have pubic hair, and the surrounding skin becomes red, swollen, painful, and itchy. The symptoms are highly recurrent. Sometimes the symptoms are more stubborn, so we must strengthen good treatment in our daily life, pay attention to diet adjustment, improve physical fitness, and enhance the body's immunity level. Only in this way can we achieve good therapeutic effects.

Folliculitis is an inflammation of the hair follicles caused by Staphylococcus aureus. The female vulva is covered with pubic hair from the mons pubis to the skin outside the labia majora. In daily life, because the vulva is easily contaminated with urine, feces and leucorrhea, the skin of the vulva is often in a humid environment, and this humid environment is very suitable for bacterial growth.

Symptoms of folliculitis include:

First: In the early stages of folliculitis, symptoms such as pain and redness of the skin may occur in the affected hair follicles and their surrounding areas. As the disease progresses, the affected hair follicles may gradually form pustules surrounded by red halos and are tender to the touch.

Second: A hair may stick out from the top of the pustule (if there is pus, a small white dot may appear on the top of the pustule). Sometimes one hair follicle is infected, sometimes multiple. If the inflammation gets worse, the infected hair follicles may form boils.

Folliculitis is a skin disease that everyone may have. It often occurs on the head, face, limbs, neck, buttocks, perineum, etc., but folliculitis is not a sexually transmitted disease. The course of vulvar folliculitis is mostly chronic, stubborn, and difficult to cure, requiring timely treatment.

As mentioned above, folliculitis is not a sexually transmitted disease, but a skin disease. Patients can consult a pharmacist to understand the symptoms of folliculitis.