Three common treatments for vulvar leukoplakia

How to treat vulvar leukoplakia is a question that female friends are very concerned about, especially for patients with severe vulvar leukoplakia who are worried that they cannot be completely cured. This is very important for patients with vulvar leukoplakia. What are the common treatments for vulvar leukoplakia ? The following is a discussion of the common treatments for vulvar leukoplakia.

In general, the common treatments for vulvar leukoplakia include:

1. Traditional topical ointment: It has some effect in the short term, but it only treats the symptoms and not the root cause. Once the medication is stopped, the disease will recur, causing dependence on the medication, and it is difficult to get a fundamental treatment. This is a common treatment for vulvar leukoplakia.

2. Surgical excision: Leukoplakia vulvae is a precancerous lesion that may develop into vulvar cancer, so surgical excision is recommended. The disadvantages of this treatment method for leukoplakia vulvae are that it causes trauma, greatly affects sexual life after surgery, and has a high recurrence rate of more than 80%.

3. Laser and electrotherapy: These are also common treatments for vulvar leukoplakia. The efficacy is unreliable and it is easy to aggravate the atrophy, because the disease is caused by various factors that cause the nutritional pathway of the vulva to be blocked, resulting in local lack of nutrients, while electrotherapy and laser aggravate the loss of nutrients, thus aggravating the atrophy of the crack.

The above is a summary of the common treatment methods for vulvar leukoplakia, I hope it will be helpful to female friends. If you suffer from vulvar leukoplakia, you must go to a regular hospital for treatment in time, and never choose a small hospital for treatment just to save money.