Cervical erosion used to be a disease that troubled many women. If you go for a physical examination, you will almost certainly be diagnosed with cervical erosion. In 2008, the seventh edition of the "Obstetrics and Gynecology" textbook for undergraduate students canceled the disease name "cervical erosion" and replaced it with the physiological phenomenon of "cervical columnar epithelial ectopia." Cervical erosion, in the final analysis, is actually a misunderstanding of the normal manifestations of the cervix in the past.

Cervical columnar epithelial ectopia is a normal physiological phenomenon and has no special clinical manifestations. Some people may experience contact bleeding, but this is just an individual difference in the cervix. For example, when some people chew something hard, their teeth or mouth will bleed.

If the leucorrhea increases, turns yellow, and smells bad, it is a sign of cervical inflammation. Cervical sacs and hypertrophy are also the results of chronic inflammation of the cervix.

Shenyang Jiuzhou stated that cervical columnar epithelial ectopia does not require any treatment. Many current methods for treating cervical erosion are wrong. But for symptomatic cervicitis, treatment is required. Acute inflammation can be treated with suppositories, while chronic inflammation can be treated with physical therapy such as laser or freezing.