What causes vaginal itching in women?

In daily life, many women tend to neglect their physical health due to being busy with work for a long time. If they do not pay attention to hygiene, it will easily lead to diseases in the private parts and itching in the vulva. There are many reasons for itching in the female vulva. Generally speaking, diabetes will easily lead to itching in the vulva, or candidal vaginitis will also easily lead to itching in the vulva. You need to pay attention to hygiene at ordinary times.

Vulvar itching is mostly located in the clitoris and labia minora, and can also affect the labia majora, perineum and even perianal skin damage areas. Vulvar itching is often paroxysmal or persistent, and usually worsens at night. The factors that cause vaginal itching are divided into two categories: systemic causes and local causes:

First,

Systemic causes

1. Diabetes: Due to the irritation of diabetes to the vulvar skin, especially when accompanied by fungal vulvitis, vulvar itching is particularly severe. Many patients first seek medical treatment due to vulvar itching and redness, and are diagnosed with diabetes after further examination.

3. Vulvar congestion during pregnancy and premenstrual period may occasionally cause vulvar itching and discomfort.

4. When patients with jaundice, vitamin A and B deficiency, anemia, leukemia and other chronic diseases experience vulvar itching, it is often part of systemic itching.

second,

Local causes

1. Special infection: Fungal vaginitis and trichomonal vaginitis are the most common causes of vulvar itching. Lice and scabies can also cause itching. Itching of the anus and vulva of young girls caused by ticks usually only occurs at night.

2. Chronic vulvar malnutrition: Itching is the main symptom, accompanied by whitening of the vulvar skin.

4. Bad hygiene habits:

5. Other skin lesions, abrasions, common warts, herpes (herpes), eczema, and tumors can all cause vulvar itching.