How do you get Bartholinitis?

The occurrence of Bartholin's glanditis affects many women, so it is important to understand the multiple causes, which include guided surgery during childbirth that causes some bacteria to enter the gland through the wound, or not paying attention to the cleanliness of the vulva.

1. Childbirth. Vaginal surgery may cause bacteria to enter the glands through the wound.

2. Not paying attention to the cleanliness of the vulva. If women often touch their vulva with dirty hands and do not pay attention to good hygiene, such as not washing the vulva every day and not changing underwear frequently, the bacteria can multiply and increase at the vaginal opening and enter the gland through the gland duct opening. This is also the reason why Bartholinitis is more common in unmarried women.

3. Unclean sexual intercourse. When a woman has sex with a man who has gonorrhea and has not been completely cured, the gonococci on the head of his penis will enter the gland through the opening of the Bartholin's gland duct at the vaginal opening, causing the bacteria to invade and cause Bartholin's glanditis. Or having sex during menstruation can also press pathogenic bacteria in the menstrual blood into the duct opening and into the deep part of the gland, thus causing the occurrence of the disease.

4. If the abscess is not treated in time, it may occasionally spread posteriorly, forming a perirectal abscess, and sometimes even rupture into the rectum. After the abscess is incised and drained, most of the abscess cavities can be completely closed and healed, but fistulas may occasionally form, with a small amount of secretions continuously discharged. Small, hard nodules can be felt upon palpation, with slight tenderness, and pus can sometimes flow out of the fistula when squeezed. Sometimes the fistula will close or narrow on its own, and pus may accumulate and form an abscess again. It may also recur and not heal for a long time. After the acute phase of Bartholinitis, due to obstruction of the glandular duct opening, the glandular secretory fluid cannot be discharged and is retained, forming a Bartholin's gland cyst.