Why genital infections can be dangerous
According to statistics, today about 80% of all women at least once suffered from various infections are transmitted sexually. Moreover, the consequences of these infections may be much more serious than their signs, which as a rule are mostly discomfort and pain. The infections are sexually transmitted, falling and developing in the vagina, causing disturbances in its normal microflora. The genital infections with both developed and conditionally-pathogenic bacteria that cause of inflammatory diseases of the female genitals – salpingitis, salpingooforit, adnexyt, and cervicitis. Some inflammatory changes (especially inflammation of the cervix) can be converted into precancerous conditions, such as erosion. If these changes are not treated, they can switch in cancer. Some viruses are also considered onco-genes- such as papilloma virus. Some types of this virus (type 16 and type 18) are associated with increased risk of cancer of the cervix.
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