Patient's question:
Doctor, hello. Recently, it was found that I have moderate cervical erosion. Who knows, I only had sexual activity after getting married at the age of 27. Initially, I used condoms because I didn't want to have children too soon, and plus, our sexual frequency wasn't high—once a week at most, twice. How could I get this disease? Could it be related to my husband's long foreskin? Please advise!!!Doctor's answer:
Hello:Sexual life has a relationship with cervical erosion. Cervical erosion is more common in married women. The common symptoms are increased leukorrhea with a yellow, viscous texture. Due to the timing of cervical erosion, it can be divided into congenital erosion and acquired erosion.
The opportunity for retrograde infection via the vagina is extremely rare, so the incidence of acquired cervical erosion caused by chronic cervical inflammation is also very low.
About 15%–20% of unmarried women can have congenital cervical erosion. This is because newborns are influenced by maternal estrogen, causing the squamous-columnar epithelial junction of the cervix to shift outward. If this cervical change persists, it becomes congenital cervical erosion, which appears similar to cervical erosion but actually does not have significant cervical inflammation.
Congenital cervical erosion can heal on its own due to squamous metaplasia, or it can lead to cervical inflammation if secondary infection occurs.
It is mostly caused by cervical inflammation that results from various reasons.