ABSTRACT
All females, regardless of age, are vulnerable to vulvar irritation and disease.
Sometimes the irritation is short lived and may not cause the individual to seek
treatment. Symptoms can be mild to severe, intermittent to constant, and predict-
able or unpredictable. Typically, a woman decides to see a health-care provider
when she has begun to experience a disruption in her daily activities, which, most
likely, has begun to affect her sexual life as well as her self-esteem (1-4).
