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Can food irritate the vagina? Gluten and allergies
Wheat allergy, coeliac disease, gluten, sugar and oxalates can all drive vulvovaginal symptoms. How to tell food reactions apart.
Vulvar pyoderma gangrenosum ulcers
Vulvar pyoderma gangrenosum is a rare, painful skin ulcer driven by the immune system, not infection – and cutting or draining it makes it worse.
Aunt Vadge: what are these white dots on clitoris and underwear?
Tiny white dots on your clitoris or specks in your underwear? Usually completely harmless - Fordyce spots, keratin pearls, or even toilet paper. What they are.
Vulvar varicose veins
Vulvar varicose veins can appear during pregnancy or with other pelvic varicosities. Treatment is usually very successful.
Aunt Vadge: white stuff and tears on my clitoral hood
White cottage-cheese stuff and small tears on your clitoral hood? Most likely smegma plus soap irritation - but how to tell it from yeast, and when to get checked.
Vulvar folliculitis
Vulvar folliculitis is an inflamed, infected hair follicle on the vulva, which can turn into a boil if left unchecked. Folliculitis can occur anywhere there are hair follicles.
Vulvar eczema
Vulvar eczema is an immune system response that appears on the skin to an irritant or allergen internally or externally.
Aunt Vadge: I douched with apple cider vinegar, and now I see a cut
An itch plus a cut on the vulva after menopause often points to atrophic vaginitis or lichen sclerosus – and douching won't help. Here's what to do.
Aunt Vadge: pinching feeling when I try to insert a tampon
A pinch when inserting a tampon is usually the angle, not your hymen or vaginismus – here's how to ease it, plus what the burning might be.
Aunt Vadge: unusual itching that just won’t go away
A vulvar itch that won't quit despite antifungals and steroids is often dermatitis or a lichenoid condition, not thrush – here's how to track it down.
Aunt Vadge: clitoral hood is disintegrating after a fingernail accident
Genital tissue that's breaking down over time is not a home-remedy situation – here's why this needs a doctor, and where to get seen.
Fordyce bumps or spots – tiny white bumps on genitals
Fordyce bumps are the tiny white spots that appear when the skin of the labia, scrotum, penis and nipples is stretched.
Aunt Vadge: persistent BV despite numerous treatments
Two years of vulval burning and rawness with clear BV swabs points beyond BV – often lichen sclerosus. Why a biopsy is worth pushing for.