Swollen Labia: What Is The Reason?

Problems in the intimate health are always a very delicate matter. It is associated with the feeling of embarrassing and shame. Unfortunately, very often those feelings became an obstacle in asking for medical help when it is needed and it can lead to very sad consequences. Especially it concerns women whose intimate sphere is connected with plenty of social stereotypes and often undergoes the influence of different prejudices and judgmental treatment even from the woman herself. Nowadays there is a lot of social initiatives in the media space that try to break those stereotypes and encourage women not to be afraid to ask for medical help and talk about their intimate problems aloud. They try to drag the women’s attention to their intimate health and state that there is nothing worth shame and condemnation in having diseases and treating them.

Sometimes a woman can notice the signs that something is wrong with her sex organs and feels lost and confused. Spreading the information about what is happening in female body is a very important measure because being aware means being responsible. Besides some unpleasant feelings that warn about disease, a woman can discover that the look of her sex organs have pathologically changed. For example, she may see such warning symptom as swollen vaginal lip. What does it mean and what to do?

Very often the labial edema goes together with reddening, painful feelings, vaginal extractions and itch. There are several reasons that can cause such state.

1. Allergy. It is a very widespread reason of having edema, reddening and itch in various places on the body. In case when it is located on the labial surface, the unwanted reaction of the organism may be caused by the material of lingerie or cosmetic products for the intimate care.
2. Bartholinitis. This reasons goes the second by frequency. The Bartholin’s glands are located near the vaginal opening. If infection gets into female organism, the inflammation with purulent hotbeds may occur in them. Also a cyst may occur in the gland and get festered. Labia are getting swollen and the area of inflammation goes painful, especially during walk of sex. Early diagnostic bring successful treatment results and neglecting of this disease may lead to the abscess development.
3. Vulvovaginitis. This disease may occur because of constant mechanic irritation of the sex organs (for example, by clothes) or as the result of poor intimate hygiene. The labia are getting slightly swollen and a woman can feel itch and other discomfort.
4. Progressing vulvodynia. Pain and edema in the labial area can be caused by the long lasting antibiotic treatment or neglected candidiasis.
5. Vulvitis and vaginitis. If it goes together with swell and vaginal extractions of greenish color, have unpleasant smell and you feel pain during the urination, the reasons can be the inflammatory process in vagina or outer sex organs. They may occur as the consequences of frequent abortions, traumas of sex organs, poor intimate hygiene or promiscuous intimate life.
6. Candidiasis. This pathology shows itself through such symptoms as vaginal extractions of caseous structure, sour smell, pain during sex, itch in the labial area.

As you can see, the reasons of swollen vagina can be very various and only gynecologist can determine the exact provoking factor of its appearance. Do not try to perform self-diagnostic and treat it by yourself, because wrong treatment can only make worse. All you can do here is to take care about preventing disease occurrence. The measures of prevention are rather simple and mainly concern the hygienic moments. Clean lingerie and linen made of natural materials, mindful intimate life and avoiding stress situations will significantly decrease chances on having intimate diseases and will not create conditions for infection bacteria multiplication.