75% of women have had mycosis vaginalis (also known as pseudomycosis vulvovaginitis) at least once in their lives. The reason for this high incidence is simple: women’s vaginas have a pH level in the 3.8-4.4 range, an acidic environment, and the inside of the vagina is warm and moist. This creates an environment suitable for the growth of mycobacteria and it is no wonder that mycobacteria are always looking for the right time to invade the vagina and multiply, causing mycosis vaginalis. At this time, women will feel itching and burning pain in the vulva, and the leucorrhea will be thick and curd-like or tofu-like.
I. Mold site map.
Mycobacteria are everywhere in life, once there is a chance, they multiply in a moist, warm corner of our body, such as
1, hidden nail crevices: pervasive mold often invade the nail crevices, causing unsightly gray nails.
2, such as boring can train feet: feet smell bad? Sweat a lot? The rainy season often have a stuffy feeling of airlessness? Attention, your feet may have become a mold “comfort zone”.
3, sweaty skin between the folds: seen the Japanese sumo wrestlers belly folds? Folds may have a large number of mold parasites, so obese people are prone to annoying ringworm;.
4, the stomach and intestines filled with acidic digestive juices: once the gastrointestinal flora is out of balance, it can easily become a home base for mold breeding.
5, low resistance vagina: not 75% of women suffer from gray nails, ringworm, etc., but 75% of women will suffer from mycotic vaginitis, so it is clear that mold prefers the vagina.
Abuse of antibiotics
Antibiotics have become a popular drug in modern society: cough? Take antibiotics! Fever? Take antibiotics! Headache? Take antibiotics again! Little do we know that improper use of antibiotics and abuse of broad-spectrum antibiotics can have serious consequences, because while killing pathogenic bacteria, they also inhibit some of the beneficial flora, and uninhibited and foreign resistant bacteria will take advantage of the opportunity to multiply, including mycobacteria.
Give up the abuse of antibiotics! Symptoms such as cough, fever, headache, etc. are most likely not caused by bacteria, and even if they are, the blind and hasty use of broad-spectrum antibiotics seems to kill a little too widely. Therefore, please remember that the use of antibiotics should be done with caution and reasonable and safe use is the key.
Third, tinea pedis, gray nails, etc.
Mold can multiply in the vagina, skin surface, gastrointestinal tract, nails and other places, causing mycosis vaginalis, skin fungal disease, gastroenteritis, gray nails and other diseases, these parts of the parasitic mold will also infect each other, such as ringworm, gray nails, gastrointestinal tract mold may be the source of recurrent vaginitis infections.
If your family members or yourself suffer from ringworm, gray nails, etc., it is dangerous to wash your socks and underwear in a laundry tub at the same time, as it is likely to cause cross-infection of mold. Therefore, underwear must be washed separately.
Fourth, excessive cleaning
Hygiene is also wrong? Yes, improper cleaning, cleaning fetish will also lay the hidden danger of mold infection! Frequent use of gynecological cleansers and disinfectant pads disrupts the microenvironment of the vagina, making the balance unbalanced and reducing the vagina’s self-bacterial ability, making it easy for mycobacteria to invade and cause disease.
There is no need to go to great lengths to use antiseptic lotions, medicated lotions, etc. If you do not have any special circumstances, you should wash your vulva with water. In addition, it is important to change your underwear every day.
V. Pregnancy
The immunity of the body decreases during pregnancy, the level of sex hormones is high, the glycogen in the vaginal tissues increases, the acidity increases, which is conducive to the growth of mycobacteria, in addition, the elevated sex hormones during pregnancy also promote the role of mycobacteria to produce mycelium, which is the “claws” of mycobacteria can help mycobacteria invade the vaginal tissues and cause vaginitis.
The correct and safe use of medication during pregnancy is very easy to occur mycosis vaginalis, need to pay special attention to local treatment, try to avoid the use of oral drugs, can use clotrimazole suppositories, miconazole nitrate suppositories, etc., to 7-day therapy is effective.
Six, washing machine
Washing machine also concealed “legions of mold”? Experts from the Osaka Institute of Environmental Science in Japan investigated 153 washing machines, the results are not optimistic: almost every laundry drum has hidden mold! Most of the mold found on clothes is also from the washing machine bucket, and the more diligent the washing machine is used, the more mold breeding inside!
Hot water washing, soaking mold is resistant to drying, sunlight, UV rays and chemical agents, etc. Is it a bit stubborn? But do not worry, against the mold in the washing machine has a tried and true killer – with about 60 ℃ hot water cleaning soaking laundry tub! The original mold fear of high temperature, in the water above 60 ℃ can not survive.
Seven, public utensils
Some women wearing short skirts on long bus rides can also be infected with mycosis vaginalis, which sounds unbelievable, but there are indeed such cases in hospitals! Some facilities in public places, such as cushions on buses, flush toilets and tubs in hotels, and poorly sanitized beds, can hide large amounts of mold, which can cause mycotic vaginitis after contact.
For example, don’t use hotel bath tubs, wear long pajamas and pajamas, and put toilet paper on the toilet before using the toilet.
Eight, the use of contraceptive pills
Some women are prone to recurrent mycosis after using birth control pills because the estrogen in birth control pills has the effect of promoting mycobacteria to produce mycelium, which leads to further invasion of vaginal tissues.
If you are prone to recurring mycosis vaginalis, try not to use the pill and use other contraceptive methods such as condoms instead.
IX. He
Mycobacteria in the vagina can also infect the male reproductive tract. When mycobacteria are parasitic in the male reproductive tract, the male reproductive tract is dry and does not have the acidic environment that mycobacteria love, so it does not produce obvious symptoms of mycobacterial infection, but the mycobacterial spores in the male body can infect women again, causing direct infection caused by sexual intercourse, and so on and so forth, which may be the recurrence of mycobacterial vaginitis in women. The reason.
If you are infected with mycosis vaginalis, you need to treat not only you, but also your partner, so that both sides can be treated together.
10. Tight fitting underwear
Tight-fitting panties have many drawbacks, they can increase the local temperature and humidity of the vagina, and this stuffy and hot environment is a “living” environment for mycobacteria to multiply!
Cotton underwear, please use cotton and other natural fabrics underwear, with practical action to take care of the body, care for health, you will live more comfortable!
Eleven, diabetes
Diabetic patients have low body resistance, high vaginal glycogen content and acidic pH, which makes female diabetic patients easy to be hurt by mycobacteria and show symptoms of mycotic vaginitis.
Control your blood sugar and wash your vulva with soda. Since excessive blood sugar is the culprit, diabetics shouldn’t indulge in spiking blood sugar levels all the way up! So, you need to start with diet and exercise to control your blood sugar at normal levels. You can also wash your vulva with soda to raise the vaginal pH and inhibit the growth of mold.