What are the symptoms of HPV

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HPV is a very common disease in our life. In the prevention of cervical cancer, we need to do cervical HPV virus test, because after a lot of research, HPV and cervical cancer have 80-90% correlation, that is to say, HPV infection is an important factor in the occurrence of cervical cancer.

What are the symptoms of HPV

First: what is HPV? HPV (human papillomavirus) is a kind of human squamous epithelial cells, including skin or part of mucosal epithelial cells. There are more than 120 HPV subtypes in the natural boundary, of which at least 40 subtypes mainly infect human colonic mucosa, and at least 15 subtypes are confirmed to be associated with cervical cancer. What kind of people will be infected with HPV? At least 75% of women who have sex will be infected with HPV at some time in their lives, especially in the sexually active 20-30 years old. However, 80-90% of women can naturally eliminate the virus. Only a very small number of people will have persistent HPV infection.

Second: common problems of HPV test report In the HPV test report, we often see high-risk virus types and low-risk virus types, which are divided as follows: after persistent infection of the cervix, the subtypes leading to cervical cancer are called high-risk types, including 16, 18, 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59, 66 and 68; while those only causing benign genital warts (condyloma acuminatum) are called low-risk types, There are 6, 11, 42, 43, 44 subtypes. Among them, about 70% of cervical cancer and type 16, 18 infection related. Whether HPV infection will definitely develop into cervical cancer has two outcomes: first, the body removes the virus; second, the persistence of virus infection - cervical epithelial atypical hyperplasia - cervical cancer. However, the second situation requires several conditions: 1. Persistent infection of high-risk viruses, common types 16 and 18; 2. Several high-risk viruses are consistent with infection; 3. Other high-risk carcinogenic factors, such as smoking, drinking and other unhealthy lifestyle. Therefore, it is not infection that will definitely develop into cancer. At the same time, it usually takes more than 10 years to develop from cervical atypical hyperplasia to cervical cancer. Therefore, intervention treatment at any stage of persistent virus infection or cervical atypical hyperplasia will not develop into cervical cancer.

Third: there are some problems in the treatment of HPV infection. At present, although there are no antiviral drugs, such as interferon or Baofukang, which is confirmed by scientific experiments, can improve the local immunity of the cervix and help the body clear the virus. In the detection of infection, regular treatment in regular hospitals, most people can still be cured.

matters needing attention

From the law of HPV infection, we can summarize some effective preventive measures: 1. Keep the single sex partner, which is an effective way to avoid a variety of high-risk types of infection; 2. Regularly do cervical HPV virus examination every year, early detection and early treatment. 3. Cervical cancer vaccine, because cervical cancer vaccine has been put into use in some developed countries, the next part describes the problem of cervical cancer vaccine in detail.