2008, Number 5
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Rev Fac Med UNAM 2008; 51 (5)
Vaginal infections in less than 15 year of age and without sexual experience
Muñoz ZG, Sánchez HJA, Rivera TJA, Mendoza LE
Language: Spanish
References: 16
Page: 196-200
PDF size: 97.22 Kb.
ABSTRACT
In the area of external consultation of the Municipality of Esperanza, Puebla is a great demand in medical care in the feminine group from the 6 to the 15 years inside the gynecology area and obstetrics, embracing diverse mammary pathologies and of the feminine reproductive apparatus as well as pregnancies of high risk. This investigation prepares to approach the vaginal infections and its transmission form in this age group, which represent a great incidence inside the municipality, since of not being appropriate way we would be ignoring a pathology that later on will become chronicle and that one of the main causes of mortality could originate in our country: the cervix cancer. Most of the patients are smaller than 15 years, that don’t have sexual life, and they are selected inside a control to obtain trustworthy data that will allow us to value the importance of the same one. It was found that the main agent of the vaginal infections in smaller than 15 years it is caused by
E. coli, secondarily for
C. albicans, most of these to present deficiency in the personal hygiene. It is important not to forget that the education in the personal hygiene plays an important paper consequently inside the health the direct responsibility she falls on all the people that exercise the medicine since from a beginning that have appropriate education level in general very few areas of Mexico should be and we should teach them the necessary preventive measures.
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