What are the causes of vaginal bleeding?

Normal menstruation is of great significance to women's health, but many women will experience symptoms of genital bleeding in addition to normal menstruation. Because the amount of vaginal bleeding is not particularly large, many women do not pay attention to it. In fact, situations such as vaginal bleeding must be taken seriously, especially for patients with long-term irregular vaginal bleeding, because these patients may have some gynecological diseases.

Vaginal bleeding can be divided into the following categories according to different causes:

1. Bleeding Related to Trauma

Bleeding caused by trauma.

Postcoital bleeding: seen in rupture of the hymen, vaginal wall or posterior fornix.

2. Endocrine-related bleeding

Neonatal vaginal bleeding, bleeding related to contraceptive pills, dysfunctional uterine bleeding, intermenstrual bleeding, postmenopausal uterine bleeding, etc.

3. Bleeding related to systemic diseases

Common in liver disease, aplastic anemia, thrombocytopenic purpura and gynecological diseases complicated by disseminated intravascular coagulation

Tumor-related bleeding

Irregular vaginal bleeding in young girls is seen in botryoid sarcoma.

Vaginal bleeding in middle-aged and older women is often caused by uterine fibroids.

Middle-aged or postmenopausal women with contact or irregular bleeding due to cervical cancer, endometrial cancer, functional ovarian tumors, etc.

5. Bleeding Related to Inflammation

Vulvar bleeding is seen in vulvar ulcers, urethral caruncle, etc.

Vaginal bleeding is seen in vaginal ulcers, vaginitis, especially senile vaginitis, Trichomonas vaginitis, etc.

Cervical bleeding is seen in acute and chronic cervicitis, cervical erosion, cervical ulcer, cervical polyps, etc.

Uterine bleeding is seen in acute and chronic endometritis, chronic myometritis, acute and chronic pelvic inflammatory disease, etc.

6. Pregnancy-related bleeding

Threatened abortion, incomplete abortion, ectopic pregnancy, choriocarcinoma, etc.

After the editor’s introduction, everyone should have understood the causes of abnormal vaginal bleeding. In addition to timely treatment, the small details in daily life are also extremely important for your own health. Female friends should never eat raw, cold food during menstruation, and also need to pay attention to maintaining the hygiene of the lower body.