All you need to know about atrophic vaginitis?

This disease generally appears after menopause, and you suffer silently from vaginal burning, dryness and itching, dyspareunia, pain during urination, difficulty urinating and urinary burning, especially after intercourse, which exacerbates your sexual coldness and alienation from your husband.
Atrophic vaginitis occurs in 40% of women after menopause, and it is caused by a decrease in female hormones caused by the cessation of the activity of the ovaries, which leads to atrophy, narrowing, shortness, dryness and low acidity of the vagina, which helps the growth of pathogenic bacteria and the occurrence of inflammation
Inflammation is exacerbated by intercourse and sexual intercourse due to dryness until it reaches the stage of vaginal fissures and bleeding after intercourse, which makes intercourse a very painful and difficult process...
Symptoms are more severe in skinny women (due to the lack of estrogen secreted by adipose tissue), and among smokers, as well as in those who have had an early menopause, those who did not give birth naturally, and those who have less sexual intercourse...
Natural childbirth and multiple sexual practices with the husband increases bloody vaginal perfusion and reduces the incidence of atrophic vaginitis...
Treatment depends mainly on moisturizers, where moisturizing creams are used once every two or three days, and lubricants are used before intercourse to facilitate sexual intercourse, reduce pain and avoid cracks...