- Warts in women - a tendency to frequent recurrence
- Causes
- Symptoms
- Treatment
Symptoms and during viral infection
Condylomata women - symptoms of papillomavirus infection, which varies among women may proceed differently. The nature of the symptoms, the extent and speed of their spread are important - this determines treatment strategy. In some cases, the symptoms disappear on their own, which is, as a rule, with the restoration of immunity.
Types of warts
Viral warts in women can be of two types: gabled and flat. Genital warts are exophytic growth, that is, grow out, towering over the mucous membrane or skin of the genitals. These warts are prone to rapid growth, merging together, ulcerate and additional bacterial, fungal infection. But this is not always - sometimes one or more warts are long in the same state. A favorite place of localization of genital warts are the mucous membranes and the skin of the external genitalia, the skin around the anus (anus), the walls of the urethra and the anal canal.
Flat warts are endophytic growth - aimed deep into the tissue. A favorite place localization simple warts is the cervix, but they also can develop on any other part of the mucous membranes of the genitals. Flat warts develop in the depths of the mucosa and contribute to a change in the cells of the basal layer of the epithelium - cervical dysplasia, which is considered a precancerous condition.
Symptoms of disease onset
The disease begins with the appearance of one or more genital warts on the surface of the external genitalia. This woman is sometimes difficult to know when and where she contracted HPV, as the incubation period, the infection rarely has a certain character. The first symptoms are usually associated with a decrease in immunity.
If warts is pointed in a safe place, a woman can find her at the time of hygiene. If it is on the vaginal wall or the cervix, it can be long undetected.
The most common warts are detected in their traumatizing during sexual intercourse, while wearing tight underwear. In this case, there spotting
Spotting - it is important to rule out pathology
Which are accompanied by pain, itching and swelling of the tissues. When these micro traumas to the viral infection can join bacterial-fungal - appear allocation (whites), the nature of which depends on the characteristics joined infections. Itching and pain in this case amplified.
The initial manifestations of flat warts in most cases go unnoticed and can only be detected during the inspection of a gynecologist.
Development of the disease
The disease can develop in different ways - for it also depends on the state of immunity. If the reduction was temporary immunity (such as colds or after the disease, stress), it quickly grew warts after immune reconstitution can go on their own without treatment.
Sometimes warts appeared times (one, two or more) do not extend further and grow, being in the same state for a long time. Often such pappillomavirusnoy for infection associated with a constant, but not very significant reduction of immunity, for example, on the background of a chronic disease or infection focus.
Much less genital warts begin to grow rapidly, capture new portions of the surface genital and merge with each other in the "cockscomb" and huge conglomerates in the form of a cauliflower. This flow indicates a significant decrease in immunity often occurs in AIDS, post-chemotherapy and radiotherapy in patients with cancer and so on. If the reason for the course of the disease is unknown, the patient is required to examine carefully and identify it.
Sometimes fused together genital warts form huge conglomerates (Buschke-Lowenstein tumor). These conglomerates interfere with the patient lead a normal life, constantly injured. Typically, a viral infection, a fungal bacterial joins. Buschke-Lowenstein tumor is usually riddled with fistulas (channels formed for the outflow of inflammatory fluid), and the stench of it often degenerates into a malignant tumor.
Flat warts develop slowly, they are rarely more than one - two. They grow into the tissue, having a negative impact on the surrounding cells of the mucous membrane - dysplasia
Dysplasia - what is it?
. But apparently it can not be shown. In order to identify the degree of dysplasia, and it is suspected to flat warts necessarily colposcopy
Colposcopy - how to prepare it properly?
- Examination of the cervix and vaginal walls with the help of optical equipment - colposcope. During colposcopy for histological examination taken a piece of cloth flat warts
Flat warts - the most dangerous form
and the adjacent epithelium. This study reveals whether there is in the cells adjacent to the warts epithelial dysplasia symptoms and how they are expressed. Dysplasia develops when flat warts are often, but not always. Also it is not always dysplasia proceeds to cancer, however, the risk of cancer in this form has always warts.