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Lichen sclerosus is another common cause of vulvitis in children, and it often affects an hourglass or figure eight-shaped area of skin around the anus and vulva. Symptoms of a mild case include skin fissures, loss of skin pigment (hypopigmentation), skin atrophy, a parchment-like texture to the skin, dysuria, itching, discomfort, and excoriation.
Vaginitis, also known as vulvovaginitis, is inflammation of the vagina and vulva. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Symptoms may include itching, burning, pain, discharge , and a bad smell. [ 1 ] Certain types of vaginitis may result in complications during pregnancy .
Vulvovaginitis in children may be "nonspecific", or caused by irritation with no known infectious cause, or infectious, caused by a pathogenic organism. Nonspecific vulvovaginitis may be triggered by fecal contamination, sexual abuse, chronic diseases, foreign bodies , nonestrogenized epithelium, chemical irritants, eczema , seborrhea , or ...
Vaginal wet mount showing slings of pseudohyphae of Candida albicans surrounded by round vaginal epithelial cells, conferring a diagnosis of candidal vulvovaginitis.. A vaginal wet mount (or vaginal smear [1] or wet prep [2]) is a gynecologic test wherein a sample of vaginal discharge is observed by wet mount microscopy by placing the specimen on a glass slide and mixing with a salt solution. [1]
Vaginal cancer is very rare, but its symptoms include abnormal vaginal bleeding or vaginal discharge. [1] Air embolism is a potentially fatal condition where an air bubble travels throughout the bloodstream and can obstruct a vessel. It can result if air is blown into a pregnant woman's vagina during cunnilingus; this is because pregnant women ...
Vaginal itching is the most common symptom of candida vulvovaginitis. [28] Women may also experience burning, soreness, irritation, pain during urination, or pain during sex. [30] The diagnosis of Candida vulvovaginitis is made by looking at a sample taken during speculum exam under the microscope that shows hyphae (yeast), or from a culture. [31]
About 10-15% of recurrent candidal vulvovaginitis cases are due to non-Candida albicans species. [32] Non-albicans species tend to have higher levels of resistance to fluconazole. [33] Therefore, recurrence or persistence of symptoms while on treatment indicates speciation and antifungal resistance tests to tailor antifungal treatment. [31]
Human infectious diseases may be characterized by their case fatality rate (CFR), the proportion of people diagnosed with a disease who die from it (cf. mortality rate).It should not be confused with the infection fatality rate (IFR), the estimated proportion of people infected by a disease-causing agent, including asymptomatic and undiagnosed infections, who die from the disease.