Patient's question:
Recently, I've been feeling a bit itchy in my private area, and it seems the color is a bit different, a bit whitish. When I went to the hospital for a check-up, they said it was leukoplakia of the vulva. I'd like to ask: How should leukoplakia of the vulva be treated?Doctor's answer:
1. Physical therapy: Common physical treatments include cryotherapy, electrocautery, laser, ultrasound, etc., which destroy abnormal tissues to achieve relatively significant effects in a short period but are prone to infection and have a certain rate of recurrence after surgery.2. Surgical treatment: Vulvar leukoplakia was once believed to be a precancerous lesion, advocating surgical removal of the abnormal tissue. However, later clinical diagnoses found that the recurrence rate after surgical removal is extremely high, and the surgical trauma forms scars, which can affect normal sexual life.
3. Medication treatment: It is divided into hormone treatment and traditional Chinese medicine treatment. Hormone treatment is prone to dependence, drug resistance, and symptom recurrence, causing significant harm to the body. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment takes longer in terms of time, but its efficacy is stable and causes less harm to the body. For the treatment of vulvar leukoplakia, it can be said to be a relatively ideal treatment method.