Vaginal atrophy is generally caused by the decrease of estrogen level, and there is no correlation with vitamin deficiency, so patients with vaginal atrophy don’t need to take vitamins, and can use estrogenic drugs as prescribed by the doctor.
Vaginal atrophy is mainly caused by low estrogen levels, mostly occurring after menopause, due to the decline in ovarian function, ovarian follicle depletion, the body’s estrogen secretion is too low, resulting in vaginal mucosal atrophy. Since vaginal atrophy is not caused by a lack of vitamins in the body, patients do not need to take vitamins to treat it, and the treatment is based on estrogen supplementation.
For patients with vaginal atrophy, you can follow the doctor’s prescription oral estrogen to treat, commonly used drugs are hexestrol, ethinyl estradiol cyproterone and so on. In supplemental estrogen at the same time, patients also need to take progestin drugs for antagonism, such as dydrogesterone, drospirenone, etc., to avoid endometrial lesions.
It is recommended that patients with vaginal atrophy use medication under the guidance of a doctor, and not on their own, otherwise it will not have a therapeutic effect.