Vaginal dryness

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It itches, it burns and hurts sex - vaginal dryness can enforce a woman pretty. With proper treatment and care can often solve the problem, however.

Vaginal dryness


Increased risk of infection
A dry vagina is a topic to talk about the women affected not so much. This affects not only the evil the well-being and sexual pleasure for both partners. Their natural moisture and protects the vagina from diseases such as fungal and other infections. It therefore makes sense in several ways to ensure a healthy moisture in the vagina.

Step number one is, together with the doctor to find out why the vagina does not have enough moisture, and then initiate the proper treatment and care. Vaginal dryness often occurs due to a fungal infection.

Lactic acid products are the first choice for a fungal infection
When women complain to a fungal infection of vaginal dryness, which is a consequence of inflammation. Because the fungus schilfert the top layer of skin into the vagina. Of these, the skin recovers only slowly, since it needs to build cell layer by cell layer again. "It usually takes three to five weeks," says LIFE LINE expert Dr. Anja Oppelt. To help the body to the woman products that may contain lactic acid (such as a Milchsäurekur), insert into her vagina. This sour to the milieu in the vagina - as it is on a healthy woman by nature of the case. Thus, the vaginal flora is regenerated and stabilized held fungi and bacteria in check and prevent infection.

When lactic acid products customers currently have a choice between gel, tablets and suppositories. What form is most effective, must try a woman, says Dr. Oppenheimer: ". Biocompatibility can be different" One advantage of lactic acid gel is that it allows condoms intact. Lactic acid suppositories, however, can attack rubber. Moreover, here the additional moisturizing aspect is observed, which is especially important for a vaginal dryness. Suppositories and vaginal tablets cause any additional moisture.

Vaginal Dryness

If there is a lactic acid preparation alone can not manage to regenerate the lining of the vagina, "a woman can also use for some time an estrogen preparation," advises LIFE LINE expert Oppelt.'s The doctor recommends, in particular, women who suffer repeatedly from vaginal fungus because the mucosa is mistreated accordingly.

Estrogen preparations help in the menopause and after childbirth
In women after menopause, the hormonal change is mostly to blame when a vaginal dryness occurs. As the estrogen level drops, the properties of the skin change in the vagina. It is poor circulation, may lose elasticity and regress with time. In addition, the glands produce less mucus in the cervix. The result is a so-called Scheidenatrophie.

Even in women who are not yet in menopause, can lead to lower estrogen levels be the cause of vaginal dryness. often complained about women who have long taken a contraceptive pill, said Dr. Oppenheimer. The pills contained estrogen ethinyl estradiol may result in the low dose used to be that mature in the vagina too little estrogen in place and the mucosa thinner and less.

Nursing women also suffered often in a dry vagina, said Dr. Oppenheimer. Because after a birth, estrogen levels fall off sharply and remains low as long as the woman breastfeeding her child. This can also be felt in the vagina.

To treat vaginal dryness, resulting from low estrogen levels, there are medicines that contain a low dose estrogen. As women they apply locally acting hormones instead of the entire body. They do not represent hormone therapy, gynecologists and keep potential concern, therefore, unfounded. are estrogen preparations for the vagina it as a cream, suppository and ovule.