A daily guide to women's health care

Do not overly interfere with the body. All nursing methods must be adapted to your own actual feelings. If you are unsure, give priority to the clinical advice of regular medical institutions. This is the most roundabout conclusion I have come to after spending 7 years in the obstetrics and gynecology department of a tertiary hospital. I have encountered no less than a thousand patients with gynecological problems due to wrong care.

You must have come across two completely contradictory popular sciences on private parts washing: one says that private parts can only be washed with water, and using lotion is a suicide.； Another one said that girls must use special care solution to clean it, which can inhibit bacteria and remove odor. Both of these statements are actually too absolute. According to the standards of evidence-based obstetrics and gynecology, for daily care in a healthy state, it is indeed enough to rinse the vulva with flowing water at 35-40°C. The vaginal flora environment is actually like a balanced small ecology. If you pour disinfectant water and add messy things into it, you will definitely kill all the good bacteria inside, and harmful bacteria will take the opportunity to multiply. Will there be a problem? But if you have a damp-heat constitution and always feel that your vulva is a little itchy and has excessive secretions before and after your aunt, a gynecologist from a regular traditional Chinese medicine hospital will also recommend that you occasionally use herbal lotion with a Xiaoxiao brand or a Chinese medicine approved brand, and rinse the vulva with warm water in a ratio of 1:10, which can relieve discomfort and will not have any side effects. Last month, a young girl who had just graduated came to see a doctor. She said that she had read the recommendation of an internet celebrity and used an antibacterial lotion for private parts and a fragrance spray for private parts to spray her underwear every day. Within half a month, she developed fungal vaginitis.

In fact, it’s not just about washing and caring. Many people don’t even understand how to care for their underwear. There are many girls around me who like to wear tight jeans and high-waisted belly pants all year round in order to show off their figure. After a boring day in the summer, when changing clothes after get off work, the underwear will be damp and sticky. At this time, no matter how good the lotion is, it will be useless. When you get home, quickly change into a pair of loose cotton pants, allowing the private parts to breathe for half an hour, which is more effective than any other care. It is best to wash underwear by hand separately, do not mix it with socks and coats in the washing machine. After washing, scald it in boiling water for three to five minutes. Hang it in a sunny and ventilated place to dry in the sun. Use a dryer on cloudy and rainy days. Do not hang it in the bathroom to dry in the shade. Mold likes the humid environment best. Once it settles on your underwear, it will be sooner or later when itching and inflammation come to your door.

Speaking of intimate clothing, by the way, people have more misunderstandings about breast care. Nowadays, there is a lot of quarrel on the Internet. They say that breast massage is an IQ tax, and if you press it, it will cause problems. ； They say that massage can clear knots, enlarge breasts and improve beauty, but who do you believe? In fact, it depends on the situation: if you are in the massage department of a regular hospital and the doctor confirms that your nodules are benign, but you have severe swelling and pain before menstruation, appropriate massage can indeed relieve discomfort. This is a conditioning method also recognized by TCM gynecology. But if you go to a beauty salon and listen to people telling you that a single press can eliminate type 4a nodules and increase cup A to C cup, stay away from that kind of violent massage. Last year, I treated a 30-year-old woman. She pressed the breast cyst in the beauty salon for half a month and burst it. She went to the emergency room crying in pain and finally had a minor surgery to solve the problem.

As for menstrual care, which is the most frequently asked question, it doesn’t require much attention. There are always people arguing that tampons are better than sanitary napkins, saying that using sanitary napkins is stuffy and unhygienic, and insisting on persuading others to use tampons. In fact, is there any absolute good or bad? If you use a lot, like to exercise, and are afraid of side leakage, you can use regular brand tampons, as long as you remember to change them every 3-8 hours, there will be no problem. If you are very sensitive to the feeling of foreign bodies, and you have learned how to insert tampons several times, there will be no problem if you change it to a qualified sanitary napkin every 2-3 hours. There was a little girl who used a tampon for the first time without reading the instructions. The position of the tampon was wrong, which caused the vaginal wall to bleed. She came to register in a panic, thinking that she had some malignant disease. After struggling for a long time, it was the result of improper operation.

My daily care is actually very simple. I rinse my vulva with running warm water every day when I take a shower. I never use any private parts whitening or fragrance products. I have a regular gynecological routine and breast ultrasound every year. After I am 30 years old, I also do TCT and HPV screening. I have never had any gynecological problems in so many years.

In fact, after all is said and done, there is never a unified standard answer to the matter of nursing, and there is no need to copy others' lists. Your body is more honest than all bloggers’ popular science and all internet celebrity product advertisements – if you feel itchy, painful or uncomfortable after using something, stop it immediately, that’s better than anything else. If you are really unsure, spend more than ten yuan to get a gynecology number from a regular hospital. The advice given by the doctor will be more reliable than the information you can find out by watching short videos for three days.