Causes, symptoms and treatment of bartholinitis

When there is a blockage of the Bartholin gland ducts, inflammatory processes, the totality of which is called bartholinitis , can occur. This phenomenon can lead to infectious pathogens, caught in the Bartholin duct sexually or in any other way. Most often, infection occurs through the external genitalia, since the ducts of the Bartholin gland are excreted into the labia minora.
In order to start treatment of bartholinitis, you need to find out its cause. So, more often this disease arises because of insufficient hygiene of sexual organs, weakened immunity.
Bartholinitis can occur due to chlamydia, E. coli, streptococcus, gonococcus, staphylococcus, trichomonads. Often, the disease is activated because of the combined effect on the body of several pathogens.

Tissue walls of the Bartholin gland are very thin, the microbes easily overcome them through the discharge stream on the threshold of the vagina. Therefore, the easiest way to get infected with bartholinitis is to infect the infection from the urethra or vagina. Through the circulatory system, infection is theoretically possible, but in practice it is extremely rare. Therefore, treatment of bartholinitis, as a rule, focuses on the first variant of infection.

The disease develops unilaterally, causing inflammation of only the Bartholin gland. If the disease progresses, the excretory duct of the gland is blocked, pus is accumulated inside it, which has no outlet to the outside. This can lead to the appearance of an abscess that can reach the size of a chicken egg. The patient's fever rises, chills, fever. In this case, treatment with bartholinitis should be emergency. It happens that the abscess is self-enclosed, freed from the fetid purulent fluid. In this case, the patient becomes lighter, the symptoms subside, but after a while everything repeats again and with a vengeance. Do not delay the professional treatment of bartholinitis, especially during pregnancy.

Examining herself alone a woman can find such symptoms of the disease as a tightening between the lower and middle third of the large labia, redness in a certain area, an increase in the temperature of this site, soreness. Also, there may be a general increase in body temperature to 38 degrees, there is weakness, signs that are characteristic for intoxication of the body. The infected gland is aching.
If the necessary treatment is not available, the abscess can be opened independently. It will bring relief, but gradually the disease will turn into chronic bartholinitis. Curing such a form of the disease is difficult, it takes a lot of time and effort. If you do not treat chronic bartholinitis, then on the gland can form a cyst.

If you find these symptoms, you need to urgently go to the gynecologist to confirm the diagnosis of "acute bartholinitis" and receive the necessary recommendations for treatment. The doctor will conduct a standard examination of the external organs and internal organs of the reproductive system. Allocations from the Bartholin gland will be sent to the study to determine the pathogens of inflammation. Research will help to eliminate the symptoms of HIV, syphilis and prescribe the patient adequate treatment.