Chronic burning and itching (pruritis) of the vulva, can often be due to vulvar peripheral nerve sensitization (neuralgia).

Patients suffering from this condition, occasionally require a nerve block, whereby a mixture of long and short acting anesthetics and steroid are injected around the irritated nerve in the pelvis.

The most commonly involved nerves are the pudendal, the genitofemoral, and the ilioinguinal nerves.