Friday 2 February 2018

Do Women Need to Douche?

Every woman loves staying hygienic and they do everything possible to stay clean and healthy. However, there is an extremely popular rumor that women should clean their vagina everyday with water. Almost every modern-day women does this activity during bathing, believing that it will help them in maintaining a healthy and odor free vagina. Whereas, experts say that women should not clean their vagina and internals, as it does not do any good. It can increase the chances of diseases, but it will not help at all.

Myths related to douching:

It is good for you: While 45% of women do douching every week or day, it is not healthy at all. It is a popular myth that doing douche is good. It does not make your vagina clean, however, it will change the pH levels of your vagina, making it prone to infections. You should not do douching, it is harmful for you and it might even do permanent damage to your vagina.

Douching removes bad odor: Bad odor might be present in your vagina because of some bacterial infections or other diseases. And douching will not remove those bad odors, it will just cover up the bad odors and act as a perfume.


It prevents STDs: Many people perform douching after unprotected sex for preventing STDs, but you should know that it is not helpful in such cases. Some women also believe that douching washes out semen, whereas, it does not do anything like that.

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