Excessive cleaning of her vagina caused her to suffer from cervicitis

Emma, ​​32, works in a bank and comes into contact with a large amount of cash every day. Emma feels that cash carries a lot of bacteria, so she pays great attention to hygiene. In addition to washing her hands several times, in order to ensure the cleanliness of her lower body, she also insists on using an acidic gynecological cleaning disinfectant to clean her vulva every day, and using a disinfected pad. Unexpectedly, Emma has recently experienced increased vaginal discharge and vaginal itching. She went to the hospital for a check-up, and the doctor told Emma that she had cervicitis. Emma couldn't understand why she would suffer from cervicitis even though she paid so much attention to the hygiene of her genitals?

The doctor told Emma that excessive cleaning can easily destroy the acidic environment in the vagina. Because the vaginal environment is weakly acidic and there are many bacterial communities coexisting, the mutual restraint between the bacterial communities can inhibit the excessive growth of certain bacteria and cause disease. This is a natural defense system of the human body. Cleaning the vagina will undoubtedly destroy the weakly acidic environment of the vagina and the mutual restraint between the bacterial communities, which will reduce the disease resistance of the vaginal epithelium and easily cause cervicitis.

Doctors say that healthy women only need to use warm water to remove the sweat, sebum and other secretions accumulated on the surface of the vulva skin to keep the vulva clean. Women during menstruation should wash their vulva twice a day, but do not use anything to wash the vagina.

The doctor also advised Emma to use less sanitary pads, because sanitary pads are usually very thin and become saturated after absorbing a little secretion. The moisture may return to the skin, increasing the temperature and humidity of the entire perineum, which is more suitable for bacterial reproduction.