Reality: This couldn’t be further from the truth. Vaginas are self-cleaning (like the eyes) — that’s what vaginal discharge, like tears and eye discharge, is for. It keeps women’s bodies clean.” “The number one misconception regarding the vagina and vaginal health is that the vagina is dirty,” while many women think “that it needs to be cleaned with soap, deodorized, douched, etc., the use of products to clean the vagina itself [can] actually cause far more harm than good — by destroying the natural, balanced ecology of the vagina and contributing to recurrent yeast and bacterial infections.”
“One of the main reasons for women to not douche or use scented products is risk of causing an infection or inflammation — for most women, inflammation occurs outside on the vulva and is a contact dermatitis that is basically a skin inflammation.”
Douching can not only cause bacterial vaginosis, but, should you have been exposed to a sexually transmitted disease (STD) like chlamydia, douching will only serve to push the disease bacteria further up into your vagina.
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