What is the reason for milky white vaginal discharge?

If the leucorrhea appears abnormal, such as milky white or watery, it means that there are changes in the woman's body and it directly affects her health. So what causes milky white or watery leucorrhea? How should it be treated? What impact does this have on women's health? Let’s learn together!

When a woman's leucorrhea secretion changes in quantity, color, properties, odor, etc., and at the same time has symptoms such as low back pain, abdominal pain, and vulvar itching, it indicates that leucorrhea is abnormal. It is likely that there is inflammation of the reproductive organs or urinary system. Abnormal leucorrhea is common in the following situations.

1. Non-inflammatory leucorrhea

(1) Leucorrhea is sticky and profuse, which is seen after taking estrogen drugs.

(2) Women of childbearing age have too little vaginal discharge, which makes it impossible to meet their own physiological needs, causing women to often feel dry and uncomfortable vulva. This is often caused by ovarian dysfunction and insufficient secretion of sex hormones, and is also a pathological condition.

(3) Mental stimulation increases the secretions of the vulva, vagina and cervix, which are colorless and transparent.

(4) Leucorrhea is milky white and watery, and may occur in patients with pelvic tumors, retroflexed uterus, and chronic systemic diseases (heart failure, diabetes, anemia, tuberculosis, etc.). This is due to pelvic and uterine congestion and increased vaginal secretions.

2. Inflammatory leucorrhea

(1) Leucorrhea is milky white or light yellow, purulent, large in amount, and has a foul odor, often accompanied by abdominal pain. It is usually caused by chronic cervicitis or endocervicitis.

(2) Leucorrhea that is yellow or yellow-green, thin and foamy, or like rice water, grayish white, and has a foul odor is mostly caused by Trichomonas vaginalis.

(3) The leucorrhea of ​​patients with gonorrhea is yellow and pus-like.

(4) The vaginal discharge secreted after amoeba infection usually appears as a bloody serous or yellow viscous secretion, sometimes mixed with small pieces of rotten meat-like substances (which look like yellow sauce soup).

(5) Leucorrhea is yellowish-white in color, and most of the time it is sticky, but sometimes it can be thin. It is typically milky white, like bean curd, or in the form of white flakes or lumps like curd. Most of the time it is caused by fungal infection.

(6) If there is blood in the leucorrhea, it is common in cervical polyps, side effects caused by intrauterine contraceptive devices, submucosal uterine fibroids, severe chronic cervicitis, etc.

(7) When suffering from fallopian tube cancer, due to the tumor stimulating the fallopian tube epithelium to exude fluid and the necrosis of the diseased tissue, the leucorrhea will be intermittent, clear, yellow-red liquid, flowing out of the vagina in bursts, continuously.

(8) When women suffer from cervical cancer, vaginal cancer, uterine cancer and other diseases, the "leucorrhea" they secrete is mostly characterized by: the amount of leucorrhea is golden, rice-washing water-like, turbid and foul-smelling, sometimes mixed with blood and light pink in color, and the amount is large.

If a woman finds that the color, odor, amount, and appearance of her leucorrhea have abnormal changes, she should go to the hospital to see a gynecologist for examination, diagnosis, and treatment in time, because observing the changes in leucorrhea can assist in the diagnosis of many related gynecological diseases, such as cervical erosion, vaginitis, and cervical polyps.

Through the editor’s sharing above, you have a certain understanding of the symptoms of leucorrhea. If such symptoms occur in your future life, you should seek medical treatment in time to ensure that your body recovers as soon as possible.