Sexual Health
What good habits can prevent external genital itching? What is the quickest way to relieve itching below
Vulvar itching also occurs in our daily life, and there are many reasons for it, mainly related to our daily habits. We should also pay attention to reasonable prevention in our daily life.
Causes of external genital itching
1. Special infection: The main reason for vulva itching in general life is that women suffer from fungal Vaginitis and Trichomoniasis. Lice and scabies can also itch. The itching around the anus and vulva caused by pinworm disease in young girls usually only occurs at night.
2. Chronic vulvar malnutrition: The main symptom of vulvar itching caused by this is the appearance of strange itching, accompanied by whitening of the vulvar skin.
3. Local allergies: This is also the main cause of external genital itching. If female friends are allergic to cotton swabs, sanitary napkins, or other drugs and chemicals in their daily lives, it may cause itching in the external genitalia.
4. Poor hygiene habits: If female friends do not pay attention to local cleaning of the external genitalia in their daily lives, such as sebum, sweat, menstruation, vaginal secretions, and even urine and feces soaking, long-term stimulation of the external genitalia can cause itching. Physiological daily use of rubber or plastic physiological belts, and wearing airtight chemical fiber underwear can cause itching due to dampness and heat.
5. Drug allergy: fixed drug eruptions caused by women with allergic constitution taking sulfonamides or other drugs mostly occur at the boundary of the skin and mucous membrane of the vulva, which can be accompanied by erosion and exudation in addition to local itching. When drugs are used for vaginal cleaning and vaginal insertion, allergic reactions and Contact dermatitis may also cause vulva itching.
6. Skin disease of the external genitalia: Skin damage caused by psoriasis spreads to the external genitalia, causing severe itching in the local area. The local itching caused by external genital eczema and neurodermatitis is more severe. The former is manifested as papules, blisters, and erosive exudates with unclear local skin boundaries, while the latter scrapes and thickens the skin with moss. In addition to local itching, leukoplakia in the external genitalia also causes malnutrition and skin atrophy in the external genitalia
7. Virus infection: Genital wart mostly occurs in the vaginal wall, cervical orifice and vulva of women, and there will also be Molluscum contagiosum with foul smelling leucorrhea that occur in the vulva. Most of them are round papules with navel fossa like depression in the center, which can also cause pruritus in the vulva. Genital herpes is mostly caused by bright rice blisters at the urethral orifice and vaginal wall, accompanied by local itching.