Is abnormal vaginal discharge related to infertility?
Infertility is a headache for many women who want to have a baby. There are many causes of infertility, gynecological diseases, lifestyle habits, and dietary habits may cause infertility, so is there a relationship between abnormal vaginal discharge and infertility, which is very common in gynecological diseases?
Can abnormal vaginal discharge cause infertility
Vaginal discharge is commonly known as vaginal discharge, and the main component is vaginal mucus. Healthy women's vagina often has some colorless, odorless, viscous but not thick liquid, which can moisten the vagina so that the vagina will not be dry, which is normal vaginal discharge and is a physiological need. During puberty, vaginal discharge begins to appear around the onset of a woman's first menstrual period.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is "born to exist, and it is always moistened". Before each menstrual cramp, there is a slight increase in the middle of the two menstrual periods and the first trimester, which are normal physiological phenomena.
Vaginal discharge can be physiological and pathological. Physiological leucorrhea is a milky white serous liquid with no odor. The amount of vaginal discharge depends on age, estrogen levels, and congestion of the reproductive organs. Pathological leucorrhea often manifests as foamy, tofu-like, purulent, or even bloody, suggesting inflammation of the genitals. Gynecologic inflammation is a common cause of female infertility. When there is inflammation of the genitals, the inflammation increases the vaginal secretions, which contain a large number of white blood cells, swallow sperm, consume the energy substances present in the sperm, reduce the motility of sperm, shorten the survival time of sperm, and thus affect conception.
Causes of abnormal vaginal discharge
1. Use a large amount of cleaning liquid
When women wash the vagina frequently, especially with lotions, lactobacilli will be reduced, which will disrupt the microbiome balance in the vagina and cause dysbiosis. Because women's vagina has a self-cleaning effect, women's vaginal epithelial cells are rich in glycogen, and normal women's vagina is parasitic with a bacterium called lactobacillus vaginal, which can decompose these glycogen into monosaccharides, and then decompose into lactic acid, so that the vaginal environment is acidic, and the pH value is kept at 4~5. As a result, pathogens that are suitable for growth in an alkaline environment are inhibited, which is known as the self-cleaning effect of the vagina.
2. Long-term use of sanitary pads
Long-term use of sanitary pads, not breathable, due to more leucorrhea secretions, often make the vulva in a damp state, to the local skin has a certain irritation. Disrupting the balance of the vagina and making it easy to cause infection.
3. Don't pay attention to hygiene and don't change underwear frequently
Women should change their underwear once a day, pay attention to personal hygiene, and it is best to put the underwear in the sun to cool down. If the abnormal treatment of leucorrhea is not timely and does not go to the root, serious sequelae will occur, such as pelvic inflammatory disease, endometritis and other gynecological inflammation, and serious vaginal cancer, uterine cancer, cervical cancer and other terminal diseases. Moreover, if there is too little vaginal discharge for a long time, the vaginal self-defense function is weakened, and women are prone to infectionvaginitis