In women who began to live sexually, condylomas can appear on the female genitalia - papillary growths of the skin or mucous membranes.
Condylomata in women - the causes of
The causes of the appearance of genital warts in women are not known to the end, but the main reason is considered the infection with the human papilloma virus, which causes this disease. Infection occurs with unprotected sex . There are more than one hundred species of this virus, which is also considered the main cause of cervical cancer, and condylomata in women - peredrakovym disease. The virus has a long incubation period - up to 10 months, sometimes the disease does not manifest at all and the person remains an asymptomatic carrier of the virus. The virus can manifest itself with a decrease in immunity against the background of stress, pregnancy or infections.
Condylomas - symptoms in women
To understand how to look like condylomata in women on the genital tract, it should be remembered that another popular name for papillomas or genital warts are warts. The first signs of the appearance of condylomas - in women on the labia, on the clitoris or in the perineum, on the cervix or around the anus first appear first, and then multiple round tubercles, not differing in color from the surrounding skin or reddish color - genital warts that eventually Growing, resembling crests or cauliflower in appearance. If condylomata are found in women in the urethra, the usually asymptomatic course of genital warts is complicated by micturition disorders.
With a long course of the disease, women develop flat warts - zones of altered epithelium, slightly elevating above the surface of unchanged mucosa, on a soft broad pedicel with clear boundaries and slightly different in color, they are not stained with ligol solution and whiten from acetic acid. This is a subradicular disease requiring timely diagnosis and differential diagnosis, for example with syphilis. This is necessary when growths that resemble condylomas are present in a woman, and HPV is not detected in PRC diagnostics.
In such cases, it is possible to suspect wide warts that women have different from flat ones in that they are caused by the causative agent of syphilis : white or gray papular growths at the entrance gate in moistened areas of mucous membranes, resembling viral in appearance but on a solid foundation in combination with symptoms of inflammation inside them.
Diagnosis of genital warts
Even with asymptomatic condyloma, do not forget what dangerous condylomas are peredrakovye diseases in women, as with a prolonged flow of condyloma are regenerated, causing cancer of the cervix. To suspect viral condyloma can be at a primary examination at the gynecologist, as well as with colposcopy and cytological examination of the smear, histological examination. PRC - diagnosis is an additional study and allows you to determine what type of virus, carrier, acute or chronic process occurs in women.
Treatment of genital warts in women
The main treatment is the removal of warts from women with surgical methods, as well as cryodestruction, laser removal, radio wave destruction. After removal of the condyloma, immunostimulating and antiviral treatment is prescribed. After removal, avoid contamination, traumatize the surface where condyloma was located, avoid sexual contact until the wound surface is completely healed. But often after removal, condylomas reappear, since the virus that causes them, continues to be in the body, and the cure does not happen completely. The world is developing a vaccine against the virus of the papilloma, which is effective when used to prevent infection, but not treatment of the virus.