Women have vaginal discharge since puberty. Leucorrhea, like menstruation, always accompanies women for most of their lives. What the hell is leucorrhea? Where did it come from? What's the use?
Know leucorrhea
Female leucorrhea comes from the cervix. Estrogen produced by ovary makes cervical columnar epithelial cells secrete colorless or slightly white secretions, which is often called "leucorrhea".
Leucorrhea is a normal physiological phenomenon of women. Normal leucorrhea is colorless or slightly white, slightly sour. The secretion, character and viscosity of leucorrhea are closely related to menstrual cycle. Adolescent girls, menstrual cycle is unstable, ovarian function is not perfect, leucorrhea is few and weak. When mature women ovulate, leucorrhea is extremely thin, clear and transparent, like egg white. Two or three days after ovulation, leucorrhea gradually becomes sticky and turbid, and the amount is greatly reduced.
The meaning of leucorrhea
Vaginal lubricant
Due to the action of pelvic floor muscles, the female vaginal opening is closed and the front and rear walls are close together. The moisture in leucorrhea makes women's vagina cling to the front and rear walls. The moisture in leucorrhea makes women's vagina moist, which can reduce the friction between the front and rear walls of vagina and protect the vaginal wall from damage. At the same time, this moist state makes women's vagina smooth and elastic, which is conducive to improving the quality of sexual life.
Natural bacteriostatic agent
Leucorrhea is rich in glycogen. Under the action of Lactobacillus vaginalis, glycogen produces a large amount of lactic acid, which makes women's vagina acidic (PH4-5) and can inhibit the growth of various pathogenic bacteria. This natural physiological function is called vaginal self-cleaning.
Sperm swimming pool
Mature women must have this experience. There are always one or two days in a month that are different from weekdays. Leucorrhea is transparent and elastic, like egg white. This is because the ovaries release high concentrations of estrogen. The day with the most leucorrhea is usually the period when estrogen in the body reaches its peak, that is, ovulation.
This change of female leucorrhea is not superfluous, but has other uses. Just like a king (ovary) wants to marry his daughter, when the princess (egg) wants to get married, he puts water (leucorrhea) into the swimming pool (vagina). Because the sperm to be a husband has no legs, God only gives them a long tail that can swim, so they can only greet the princess by swimming.
Sperm will soon encounter the first obstacle-cervix after entering the female reproductive tract. During the non-ovulation period, women's cervix is very small, and the secretion is also very viscous, which is blocked in the cervix like an embolus. At this point, even if sperm comes here, it can't pass through the cervix and enter the uterus. During ovulation, women's cervix is slightly open, producing thin and much cervical mucus (leucorrhea), and sperm can pass through the cervix and swim into the uterus. The strongest sperm swam to the fallopian tube and combined with the little princess (egg) waiting there to form a fertilized egg. The fertilized egg enters the uterus with the help of cilia and camps there. After 280 days of gestation, a little life was born.
Characteristics of ovulation period
It can be said that most of the more than 100 million sexual intercourse in the world every day are not for childbirth. It has become a kind of knowledge that many families want to master, not only to have a safe sex life, but also to ensure that they will not get pregnant unexpectedly.
Generally speaking, the day with the most leucorrhea, the thinnest leucorrhea and the strongest anti-wiredrawing ability is often the ovulation period. In Africa, the method of abstinence during ovulation has achieved unexpected great success. Specific operation method: Dip your finger into the leucorrhea every morning, observe your leucorrhea quantity and viscosity, know whether you are in the ovulation period that is easy to conceive, and decide whether you can have sex or need to take contraceptive measures on this day. According to the data, the effective rate of this method can reach 97.8%.
The Mirror of Reproductive Health
Abnormal leucorrhea is usually used by doctors as an indication to diagnose reproductive tract diseases, and it is also the main reason why most patients go to the hospital.
A large number of colorless, transparent and mucinous leucorrhea that begins after menstruation and continues to the next menstrual cycle may indicate endometritis, ovarian endocrine dysfunction and other diseases. White, yellow or foamy leucorrhea, smelly, mostly caused by trichomonas infection. Leucorrhea is curly or tofu-like, accompanied by pruritus vulvae, which is more common in candida infection. Leucorrhea is dirty, gray and fishy, often caused by bacterial vaginitis or chlamydia infection. Bloody leucorrhea needs to rule out the possibility of cervical cancer and endometrial cancer. Pale yellow watery leucorrhea, paroxysmal discharge, a large amount, may be tubal cancer. Young girls have yellow secretions, mostly vulvitis, which may also be caused by foreign body residue and infection in the vagina.
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