Pediatric Gynecology and Endocrinology

-1 /T ANY motilers bring their young .Lv1 daughters to the pediatrician because tiley have noticed a discharge on the Chlilds underclothing. Most of such discharges are notiling more than desquamation of tile epithehial cells at perhaps a more rapid pace than usual. Such a discharge, commonly referred to as “whites,” occurs normally ill the adult female. No pathologic is involved in either tile child or the woman and 110 treatment is indicated. On tile other hand, a discharge which is irnitatillg, malodorous, and provokes an inflammatory response, has a pathologic background. By far the greater number of such cases fall into one of the following