Is contact bleeding serious?

Some women experience vaginal bleeding during sexual intercourse, which is what doctors often call contact bleeding. Contact bleeding needs to be taken seriously because it is mostly caused by cervical lesions. If cancer occurs, it will have a great impact on the patient's body, so it is best to go to the hospital's gynecology department for examination. If it is vaginitis, symptomatic treatment can be given.

Contact bleeding refers to a small amount of vaginal bleeding during sexual intercourse, gynecological examination, and after straining to defecate in patients with constipation. "Contact bleeding" is an abnormal sign and also one of the signals of precancerous lesions of cervical cancer.

Contact bleeding must be taken seriously and cytological screening and cancer prevention examinations such as colposcopy should be done. If no problems are found, symptomatic treatment should be given in a timely manner and follow-up examinations should be conducted every 4-6 months; if problems are found. The gynecologist will follow the medical procedures to conduct further examinations, and once the nature of the lesion is clear, the correct treatment will be given.

Contact bleeding can be divided into two types: pathological bleeding and traumatic bleeding.

The tearing and damage of the hymen caused by the first sexual intercourse can lead to traumatic bleeding. This type of bleeding generally does not require specific treatment because the amount of bleeding is usually small and stops on its own. Traumatic bleeding may also be fatal bleeding caused by severe damage. This usually occurs after rough sexual intercourse (such as rape) causes tearing and damage to the vaginal mucosa. When this happens, you should go to the hospital immediately for repair, hemostasis, anti-inflammatory and other treatments.

There are many causes of pathological bleeding, such as severe vaginitis, cervical erosion, cervical endometriosis, cervical polyps, cervical cancer, etc., which may cause bleeding; when suffering from certain gynecological diseases, the cervix may be touched and may also cause bleeding. Pathological bleeding usually involves a small amount of bleeding, sometimes only a small amount of blood in the leucorrhea, without other obvious symptoms. It is often ignored by people, leading to worsening of the condition. Most women with cervical cancer do not have obvious special symptoms in the early stages. The earliest symptom is contact bleeding. Therefore, if the cause of the bleeding is severe cervical erosion and cervical cancer, but it is not taken seriously and discovered early, the disease will be delayed.