What causes cervical hypertrophy

When women suffer from chronic cervicitis, the stimulation of inflammation often leads to cervical hypertrophy. At this time, some pathogens can cause inflammatory changes in the cervical mucosa, which is harmful to women's health. It can easily induce serious gynecological diseases and cause infertility in women. It can also have a very adverse effect on women's ovarian function, often causing an increase in leucorrhea, bleeding during sexual intercourse, etc.

Causes of cervical hypertrophy

1. Cervical gland mucus retention: Cervical gland mucus retention is one of the causes of cervical hypertrophy in women. When the cervical gland mucus retention in women develops seriously, cysts of varying sizes will form, causing the female cervix to become enlarged, resulting in cervical hypertrophy and infertility.

2. Long-term stimulation of chronic inflammation: Long-term stimulation of chronic inflammation can also cause cervical hypertrophy in women. Long-term inflammatory stimulation includes chronic pelvic inflammatory disease, which can cause congestion, swelling and edema of the cervix in women, and cause hyperplasia of cervical glands and stroma, thereby causing cervical hypertrophy and infertility in women.

3. Invasion of pathogens: The pathogens that cause cervical hypertrophy include mycoplasma, chlamydia, bacteria, etc. Once the patient is infected with mycoplasma, chlamydia and other viruses, the cervix will be seriously disturbed, causing cervical hypertrophy and infertility.

4. Intrauterine congestion: Intrauterine congestion can cause hyperplasia of uterine connective tissue, thus leading to cervical hypertrophy.

5. Ovarian dysfunction: Due to long-term stimulation of estrogen, the basal layer of the cervix becomes enlarged. The most common clinical condition is functional uterine bleeding.

6. Caused by inflammation: Chronic adnexitis and pelvic connective tissue inflammation can induce fibroplasia in the myometrium, eventually leading to cervical hypertrophy.

Pathological changes

The dangers of cervical hypertrophy

1. Increased vaginal discharge: The typical symptom of patients with cervical hypertrophy is increased vaginal discharge. In acute cervicitis, the leucorrhea is purulent, accompanied by pain in the lower abdomen and lumbosacral area, or bladder irritation symptoms such as frequent urination, urgency, and pain when urinating. The leucorrhea of ​​chronic cervicitis is milky white mucus or light yellow pus.

2. Cervical congestion and edema: Acute inflammation may cause cervical congestion, edema or erosion, with purulent secretions discharged from the cervical canal, and pain may occur when the cervix is ​​touched. Chronic cervicitis may show varying degrees of erosion, hypertrophy, polyps, glandular cysts, and ectropion of the cervix, or purulent secretions at the cervical opening and a hard cervix upon palpation. If it is cervical erosion or polyp, there may be contact bleeding.

3. Bleeding during sexual intercourse: In case of severe cervical erosion or cervical polyps, bleeding after sexual intercourse may occur in the form of bloody leucorrhea. In mild cases, there may be no systemic symptoms. When the inflammation spreads along the uterosacral ligament to the pelvic cavity, there may be pain in the lumbar region, a feeling of heaviness in the lower abdomen, and dysmenorrhea, which worsens during bowel movements and sexual intercourse.

4. Infertility: Thick and purulent leucorrhea is not conducive to the passage of sperm and can also cause infertility.

5. Affect normal life. For severe patients, cervical hypertrophy will cause symptoms such as bloody leucorrhea and bleeding during sexual intercourse. These symptoms not only affect women's mental health, but also endanger women's normal life to a certain extent. Therefore, it is recommended that women must go to the hospital for treatment in time when they suffer from cervical hypertrophy.

6. Induce cervical cancer. Because some women are accustomed to delaying treatment after they become ill, if cervical hypertrophy is not treated for a long time, the condition will worsen and induce cervical cancer.