- Vaginitis in children - reducing the body's defenses
- Girls
- Treatment
Vaginitis in children - it is a common pathology, but it does not develop simply vaginitis, and vulvovaginitis - inflammation of the vagina and external genitalia. Children are predisposed to the development of diseases such as their external genitals do not have the ability to cleanse itself.
Why children can develop vulvovaginitises
Vulvovaginitis a child up to one year may be the result of infection from the mother during childbirth. Sometimes the disease is detected at once and the cause of prolonged inflammation. Infectious agents in this case may be any microorganisms that live in the mucous membranes of the genital tract mother both specific (causing infections, sexually transmitted diseases) and non-specific (conditional-pathogenic microflora that can cause inflammation under certain conditions). The mother can infect a child under one year any sexual infection or thrush, as it has close contact with him.
But most of vulvovaginitis in girls until the year arise from non-compliance with hygiene rules and contact with the mucous membrane of the external genitalia of the child from intestinal infections. If a child suffers from atopic dermatitis (allergic congenital skin disease, which used to be called exudative diathesis), it can carry vulvovaginitis allergic in nature. But by the allergic process is often joins infectious.
After a year, when the child begins to move independently and playing with toys, it can injure the genitals toys or pushing them into the vagina, irritating the mucous membrane. Such mechanical vaginitis is almost always associated infection that is present on the mucous membranes of the genitals of the child.
In the preschool and early school age vulvovaginitises often the result of low immunity and infection through the bloodstream from other (sometimes distant) foci of infection. These foci of infection are chronic tonsillitis, adenoiditis, otitis, sinusitis. Vulvovaginitis develop and girls, often ill colds - they are the result of low immunity.
Predispose to vulvovaginitis in children physiological characteristics of childhood. In women of childbearing age female hormones maintain normal flora, thus protecting the external genitalia from infection. In children, no such protection, and therefore they develop vulvovaginitis frequently.
Symptoms of vulvovaginitis in children under one year
The signs of vulvovaginal
Vulvovaginitis - a disease of children and the elderly
a child under one year are swelling, redness and itching in the genital area. The child becomes very restless, not sleeping, not breastfeeding. When incomprehensible anxiety in the child's mother should carefully inspect it, including his mucous membranes - the mouth and genitals. If you have genital redness and swelling, you should immediately call the pediatrician. This is very important because the infection may move to the urinary tract.
Signs of urinary tract infections are frequent painful urination - the baby cries when urinating, sometimes straining. If the background of these symptoms in the child's high fever - it's probably a sign of pyelonephritis
Pyelonephritis - kidney disease
- Inflammation of the kidneys
Inflammation of the kidney - do not suffer pain
.
If vulvovaginitis is prolonged, the child starts to lag behind in the physical and psychological development.
What to do to prevent the development of children vulvovagminita
To avoid such troubles as vulvovaginitis, you must strictly adhere to the rules of hygiene care for the child. In addition, the mother should regularly visit the gynecologist and to monitor their health, mindful of the fact that all of her infection can pass to the baby.
The child should be tempted after each act of defecation under running water, without soap. This jet of water and the movement of the hands of the mother should be directed from front to back, so that faeces do not fall on the mucous membrane of the genital and urinary organs. After cleaning the genitals get wet a clean diaper and put on a clean diaper or diaper.
Bathe your child to a year need every day. During the first month of his life bathed in boiled water, and then in ordinary tap. With soap (only with children or children with special gel for bathing) baby bathe no more than once or twice a week.
In order to increase the immunity of the child, it is necessary to regularly walk in the fresh air and to feed. All recommendations on feeding baby
Breastfeeding - a personal choice
and maintenance of the mother receives during the mandatory monthly visits to the pediatrician.
Warn vulvovaginitis a child under one year is easier than to cure it later, especially when complications begin in other organs.
