Question 1

what can cause vaginal disease?

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Many things: Gc, chly, herpes other bacteria and viruses, it depends what kind of DX you are talking about, you should see your gyn for an exam and culture and other tests if necessary.

Question 2

what are some common vaginal diseases?

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STD's: The most common are the std's including hpv, herpes, trichomonas, chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphillis.  Vagiinal yeast infections as well as bacterial vaginosis are also quite common.

Question 3

is there different categories for malignant vaginal diseases?

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Yes: Every type of cancer and precancerous lesion is broken up into stages. In the vagina the precancerous states are classified as vain (vaginal intraepithelial neoplasia) 1-3, carcinoma in-situ, then cancers staged 1-4. There are also different types of cancers that provide similar categories but different treatments.

Question 4

what are some serious vaginal diseases that des daughters can get and what are the symtoms?

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Infert. and cancer: Des (diethyl-stilbestrol) was an estrogen-like drug given to pregnant women to prevent miscarriage.  It causes female offspring to have uterine malformations, vaginal adenosis that can be disabling, and a rare kind of cancer, clear cell cancer of the cervix.  There may not be any symptoms.  Des has not been used since the 60"s.

Question 5

what are some of the vaginal diseases that are not sexually transmitted and can be diagnosed at annual?

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Vaginitis: Vaginitis, cervicitis, warts, endometriosis, cysts, tumors.

Question 6

what happens if i don't go to the doctor about vaginal disease?

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It depends: It depends on what's going on. If you are concerned, you should see your GYN.

Question 7

what are some vaginal diseases you can get without having sex?

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Many: Yeast and bacterial vaginosis which can be caused by many differnet kinds of bacteria are 2 possible causes. Your gyn can do a culture and send it to teh lab to determine what you have a give you teh correct treatment for your problem.

Question 8

what are some vaginal diseases or infections i can self treat?

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Not smart to do that: The only one i would say is a vaginal yeast infection, - many over the counter meds are around to treat that, but if the symptoms do not go away you need to see your gyn because you may have something different that will need to be treated or more than 1 infection at the same time, and sometimes you can have a yeast infection and an std at the same time or the symptoms could be similar.

Question 9

vaginal discharge with no itching. do i have a vaginal disease?

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Vaginal itch.: You may have a vaginal infection without much of an itch. If there is a discharge that doesnt clear on its own then see your doctor. These will respond quickly to treatment.

Question 10

what vaginal diseases affect pregnancy?

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There can be many: Some can affect you and some can affect the fetus. For example if you have beta strep bacteria in the vagina and don't know it, you may not have any symptoms , but it could possilly make the baby very sick when it is born. That is why all pg women get tested for beta strep toward the end of their pg , because if it is + , the mother gets antibiotics so the baby hoepfully will not get it.

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