Can I still get pregnant if I have cervical erosion?

Cervical erosion is a common female disease. Women who want to get pregnant should have a certain understanding of it. So can women get pregnant if they have cervical erosion? How to treat cervical erosion? How to prevent cervical erosion? The following editor will introduce you in detail.

Can I still get pregnant if I have cervical erosion?

Cervical erosion-like changes are a normal physiological phenomenon. As long as there are no discomfort symptoms such as contact bleeding, abnormal leucorrhea, and lower abdominal distension, and the cervical cytology examination is normal, it will not affect fertility. Even if patients with cervical erosion-like changes have mild inflammation, it will not affect conception.

If cervical erosion is accompanied by inflammation, such as purulent leucorrhea in the cervix, or infection with pathogens such as chlamydia or gonococci, the cervical mucus will become thick and contain a large number of white blood cells, which is not conducive to the activity and penetration of sperm and will affect conception. Women should treat the inflammation before preparing for pregnancy.

How to treat cervical erosion

Drug treatment: Suitable for patients with small erosion area and shallow inflammatory infiltration. Antibiotics can be used for local application, such as metronidazole, sulfonamides, furazolidone, etc. Traditional Chinese medicine is widely used in the treatment of cervical erosion in clinical practice, and the effect is also good. Some prescriptions and formulas are often selected, processed into powder or suppository, placed on cotton balls, and applied to the eroded surface.

Physical therapy: It is a widely used treatment method with the advantages of short treatment course and good efficacy. It is suitable for patients with large erosion area and deep inflammatory infiltration. Commonly used methods include electric ironing, laser therapy, and cryotherapy.

Traditional surgical treatment: If the above treatments are ineffective, or if there is cervical hypertrophy, or the erosion is deep and wide, and involves the cervical canal, traditional surgical treatments such as total hysterectomy can be considered. However, surgical treatment is rarely used now.

High-frequency LEEP technique: The tissue specimen is intact and is not prone to the phenomenon of tissue stretching and carbonization that occurs during traditional electrosurgical cutting. This allows for the acquisition of intact tissue specimens that do not affect pathological examination.

BBT ablation: BBT ablation is a very delicate surgery for treating cervical erosion. It not only does not damage the surrounding tissues, but also is painless during the treatment and leaves no scars after the surgery. It can also better avoid complications such as bleeding or infection, and has the advantage of not affecting fertility after the surgery.

How to prevent cervical erosion

Keep a happy spirit, do proper exercise to enhance immunity. Do a good job of contraception and avoid artificial abortion. Pay attention to the hygiene of sexual life and avoid contact with multiple sexual partners at the same time. Keep the vulva clean, wash it with clean water every day, without infection, and do not use various douching fluids to avoid damaging the natural protective barrier of the vagina. If there is a mild phenomenon of cervical erosion, if there are symptoms such as increased leucorrhea, color changes from transparent to white or yellow-white, purulent or bloody, and odor, you should be vigilant and go to the hospital for treatment in time. During the treatment period, since the wound surface has not been completely repaired, it is not suitable to have sexual life, and sexual life is not suitable for excessive frequency after treatment. Many patients think they have recovered after a period of treatment when they find that the symptoms disappear, and forget the doctor's advice for regular follow-up visits, and the treatment is abandoned halfway. Some women think they have moderate cervical erosion and buy medicine directly at the pharmacy. This practice is wrong. In fact, mild cervical erosion can be cured with drugs, but for moderate and severe patients, the effect of simple drug treatment is not obvious, and it is easy to relapse.

Any medication cannot be used for a long time: especially in the vaginal environment, long-term medication can easily lead to candidal vaginitis, that is, dysbacteriosis. Therefore, it is not suitable to use medication for a long time if there is severe cervical erosion, and even if it reaches severe cervical erosion, long-term medication will not be good, so it is better to eliminate the immediate inflammation and then do physical therapy.

Symptoms of cervical erosion

1. Pain. This symptom is mainly caused by inflammation, which will spread to the pelvic cavity along the uterine ligaments, causing women to experience lower abdominal pain. Some women will also suffer from back pain due to inflammation.

2. Excessive. The most obvious is leucorrhea. Normal leucorrhea should be transparent, but this symptom will increase the amount of leucorrhea, which is mostly light yellow or milky white and feels sticky and thick. Sometimes there will be blood in the leucorrhea.

3. Difficult. Once the inflammation spreads to the bladder, the patient will experience difficulty and pain in urination, and some patients even report pain during defecation.

4. Itching. This symptom can cause an increase in vaginal discharge, which in turn affects the vaginal environment, causing inflammation of the vagina, itching, and even pain.

5. Blood. During intimacy, there may be an odor and bleeding.