non-infectious causes
Last reviewed 07/2021
A non-infective vaginal discharge may occur secondary to:
- physiological vaginal discharge
- atrophic change:
- prepubertal
- postmenopausal
- a foreign body:
- any small object in a child
- forgotten tampon in an adult; also more bizarre objects
- forgotten ring pessary in a post-menopausal women
- chemical irritation
- excretions:
- urine from a vesicovaginal fistula
- faeces from a rectovaginal fistula
- serosanguinous discharge:
- from carcinoma in the vagina, cervix, endometrium or rarely, the fallopian tubes
- from a necrotic polyp - fibroid or cervical polyp