Best Doctors for Genital Sores Treatment in Behala, Kolkata

Genital sores are slow healing lesions or wounds present around vulva and vagina, penis or scrotum and sometimes may extend to anus. They can be painful sometimes, associated with fever, burning sensation, painful urination, abnormal vaginal discharge, bad vaginal odor, painful sexual intercourse, pelvic pain and itchy affected genital organs. Genital sores are most commonly caused by transmission of sexually transmitted infections and diseases. They occur when there is unprotected sexual intercourse or sharing of sex toys. Some of the sexual transmitted diseases that cause genital sores are genital herpes/viral infection and syphilis/bacterial infection.

Some of the other diseases that cause genital sores are eczema, contact dermatitis, vulvovaginitis, cysts and ingrown hairs. They can be diagnosed by thorough physical examination and investigatory labs such as blood test, swab test of the sore lesion, skin prick/biopsy. Genital sores are managed with medications, if left untreated genital sores may lead to other complicated diseases like pelvic inflammatory disease, sometimes even to infertility.