What is the danger of erosion of the cervix?

Recently, the diagnosis of cervical erosion is being put more and more often.

Erosion can occur at any age. Every third woman has experienced this gynecological disease at least once in her life. In view of this widespread prevalence of this pathology, doctors are trying to take all necessary measures for its timely diagnosis and treatment. But, nevertheless, many women all for the same reason show excessive carelessness in relation to erosion as to a normal physiological condition and do not rush to address to the gynecologist.

Is cervical erosion dangerous?

In fact, cervical erosion is a dangerous disease for a woman and requires compulsory treatment.

There is an opinion that erosion and the resulting transformation of tissues can increase the risk of future cervical cancer. In this regard, women who have been found to have erosion and infection caused by oncogenic types of papillomavirus should regularly give a smear to cytology and be examined by a gynecologist.

Erotic sex infections also threaten women's health, because if they are not treated, erosion will occur again and again. In addition, they provoke the development of cervicitis , vaginitis, endometritis, infertility.

If we talk about whether it is dangerous to have untreated erosion of the cervix during pregnancy, it is worth noting that during the period when a woman carries a child, her body is in a deficit of immunity in order to prevent the rejection of the fetus, as genetically alien.

During this period, erosion is quickly infected with pathogenic microbes, leading to intoxication and inflammation. Despite the fact that erosion in itself is not dangerous for the embryo, but a purulent infection that complicates it, it may well get on the fetal membranes, and then into the baby's body. All this, depending on the period of pregnancy, can cause a violation in the development of internal organs of the fetus, lead to congenital malformations, intrauterine sepsis, the threat of spontaneous termination of pregnancy or fetal death.

Since the pregnant woman has immunity in an oppressed state, the tumor cells that appear do not appear and are not neutralized. Therefore, the risk of degeneration of erosion into a malignant tumor is several times higher.

The danger of erosion lies also in the fact that, in its presence, the internal environment of the cervical canal and vagina is disrupted, which is an obstacle to the advancement of spermatozoa, and, therefore, to be the cause of infertility.