A Descriptive Comparative Study of Vulvovaginal Complaints in Women With Diabetic Husbands and With Women Whose Husbands Have No Diabetes

Abstract

BACKGROUNDThe term leucorrhoea is restricted to those conditions when normal vaginal secretion is increased in amount without increase of leucocytes. Purulent discharge is due to specific infections such as gonorrhoea, trichomoniasis, moniliasis and ulcerated growths of cervix and vagina. The white discharge may be physiological or pathological. This physiological white discharge occurs at puberty, ovulation, premenstrual period and pregnancy. During puberty and pregnancy, the increase in secretion is due to increase in vascularity and it is of temporary duration, does not need treatment.