Will you get vaginitis if you put on clothes "instantly" after taking a shower? 9 little-known facts about women that many people don't know!

I believe that everyone has heard some little-known facts about women in daily life. Some of them sound mysterious, while some sound subversive to your cognition... Today we are going to talk about some "little-known facts about the body" that girls care about. Sisters, please read on carefully. Maybe this article will open the door to a new world for you.

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Put on your underwear right after taking a shower

Inflammation may come to your door

Many fairies put on their underwear in a hurry after taking a shower, but they don’t know that if they do this frequently, inflammation is likely to occur.

After taking a shower, although we will dry our bodies, the female private parts, due to their special anatomical structure, not only have physiological channels, but are also covered with hair. There may be unevaporated water vapor in these places. If you put on underwear immediately at this time, it will not be conducive to local ventilation and drying. In addition, these parts are relatively humid. Doing so for a long time may disrupt the balance of female vulvar and vaginal flora, which may increase the risk of bacterial infection and increase the risk of female vulvar and vaginal inflammation.

Therefore, it is recommended that female friends completely wipe the moisture off the skin and hair of the perineum after taking a shower or let them dry before wearing underwear.

Folding the umbrella with your belly

It may actually cause corpus luteum rupture

Some time ago, there was a trending search on Weibo #After closing the umbrella with the belly, the corpus luteum ruptured#, which attracted a lot of attention from netizens. So, does this really happen? How should we avoid corpus luteum cyst rupture in daily life?

Before answering these questions, let's first understand the causes of corpus luteum cysts. Cysts on female ovaries are divided into physiological cysts and pathological cysts. Physiological cysts mainly include corpus luteum cysts, follicular cysts, empty follicles, etc., among which corpus luteum cysts are the most common. Corpus luteum cysts appear periodically in every woman from ovulation to menstruation. After the follicle matures and ovulates, the cells around the follicle collapse, forming a physiological cyst together with the granulosa cells and theca cells remaining in the follicle. It is often rich in blood vessels and can secrete estrogen and progesterone.

During the luteal phase, if women have intense sexual intercourse, local pressure, or changes in body position, it may cause changes in the pressure in the corpus luteum cyst, resulting in rupture and bleeding. Even if most corpus luteum cysts rupture, the symptoms are often mild, mainly manifested as a feeling of heaviness and dull pain in the lower abdomen; some women will always want to defecate, but nothing comes out, which is medically called tenesmus; only a small number of women will experience a large amount of intra-abdominal bleeding, resulting in more severe and persistent abdominal pain, or even shock due to severe blood loss.

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Therefore, it is recommended that in the second half of the menstrual cycle, when the corpus luteum cyst is formed, female friends should not have too intense sexual intercourse, running and jumping, etc., and it is not recommended to press the abdomen (such as abdominal massage, kneading, using the belly to hold an umbrella, etc.). If you have persistent lower abdominal pain in the late menstrual period, especially if there are the above-mentioned inducements, it is recommended to go to the hospital for treatment in time.

Ovarian massage is harmful, not maintenance

In order to stay young, some women spend a lot of money to go to beauty salons and private clubs for so-called ovarian massage and ovarian care. In fact, neither ovarian massage nor ovarian care can make us stay young forever or rejuvenate.

The main functions of female ovaries are ovulation and secretion of estrogen and progesterone. These two functions help women give birth to children and maintain their physiological functions. Women's ovarian function starts to start during puberty and begins to fail during menopause. This process lasts about 30 to 40 years. After the age of 35, women's ovarian function will gradually decline until it is completely exhausted at around 50 years old (the specific time varies from person to person). This process will have twists and turns, but it is a one-way ticket and cannot be completely reversed. Therefore, even if women perform so-called ovarian massage and ovarian maintenance, they cannot change the fact that ovarian function is gradually declining, nor can they alleviate this process. On the contrary, irregular local massage may also cause ovarian corpus luteum cysts to rupture or torsion. In addition, if some hormone-containing drugs (such as certain essential oil ingredients) are added during the massage process, it may also increase the risk of abnormal menstruation, endometrial cancer, breast cancer, etc. in women.

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For the decline in ovarian function, the correct intervention method is to maintain a good attitude and lifestyle, not smoking, getting enough sleep, etc.; have regular physical examinations, deal with pathological ovarian cysts in a timely manner, and use less drugs that damage the ovaries (such as some chemotherapy drugs, Tripterygium wilfordii, etc.).

Short-acting contraceptive pills are a temporary form of contraception

Will not cause infertility

The main ingredients of short-acting contraceptives are estrogen and progesterone, which inhibit ovulation by inhibiting the female ovarian gonad axis. It can also achieve the purpose of contraception by changing the endometrial environment, changing the properties of cervical mucus, affecting the function of the fallopian tubes, and changing the morphology of the endometrium. This series of effects are temporary. When women stop taking short-acting contraceptives, they will quickly resume natural ovulation, and it will not affect women's fertility in the later period.

A foreign study observed 187 women who stopped using short-acting contraceptives for about a year and found that 97% of the women resumed menstruation spontaneously within 90 days, and the median time to resume menstruation was only 32 days. The European Oral Contraceptive Active Monitoring Study also found that the pregnancy rate after stopping short-acting contraceptives was comparable to that of the general population. The pregnancy rate of women who stopped using short-acting contraceptives was nearly 80% within one year. Therefore, short-acting contraceptives are only a temporary method of contraception and will not have a significant adverse effect on our later fertility. You can use them with confidence when you need to.

Cervical erosion is not a disease

You will not get cervical cancer because of this

The term "cervical erosion" once made many women lose their appetite and sleep at night, especially because they were afraid that it would be related to cervical cancer. In fact, the diagnosis of "cervical erosion" has long been eliminated from various formal textbooks.

What most women call cervical erosion is just an external physiological manifestation of the cervix. It is mainly related to the high estrogen level in women of childbearing age, which leads to the outward migration of the columnar epithelial cells of the cervix (so the current scientific name is cervical columnar epithelial ectropion), causing the external opening of the female cervix to appear red and granular, making it look like it is "eroded". This phenomenon is actually very normal in women of childbearing age, and it is not a disease at all.

As long as there are no problems with women's routine cervical cancer screening (excluded by TCT and HPV virus tests on the cervix), and there is no repeated vaginal bleeding after intercourse, no repeated abnormal leucorrhea, etc., then the so-called "cervical erosion" does not require treatment at all. It neither affects women's physical health nor their fertility.

The hymen is not a membrane

Women may not always see blood during their first sexual intercourse

The correct name of the hymen is the prevaginal membrane, which is sometimes also referred to as the vaginal membrane. The prevaginal membrane appears when the female fetus develops to 3 to 4 months, but the newly appeared vagina is not a cavity, but gradually changes from a solid body to a cavity. This process is called cavitation. The development of the fetal reproductive system and the urinary system occurs at the same stage. While the vagina is cavitating, the urogenital sinus is also developing. In order to separate them, a thin film is formed between the outer end of the vagina and the urogenital sinus cavity. This is the prevaginal membrane.

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The prevaginal membrane is originally a solid body with no holes on it. Later, this thin membrane will gradually become cavity-like and holes will begin to form on it, turning into various openings of different shapes on the prevaginal membrane, which are our hymen openings.

It can be seen that the hymen itself has holes (a hymen without holes is a disease called hymen occlusion). The opening of the hymen has various shapes and sizes. It is not a simple layer of membrane, but a layer of connective tissue. This connective tissue often tears during the first sexual intercourse, resulting in a small amount of vaginal bleeding. However, not every woman will experience a tear in the hymen and "see blood" during the first sexual intercourse, because some women may be born without an obvious hymen, some women have a larger hymen opening, and some women have a tougher hymen. In addition, the matching of the genitals of both men and women, the success of the first sexual intercourse, and other factors may affect whether there will be "blood" during the first sexual intercourse. In addition, daily strenuous exercise and other reasons may also cause the female hymen to tear during exercise, resulting in no "blood" during the first sexual intercourse.

There are many reasons why the color of women's private parts becomes darker

But it has nothing to do with the number of sexual activities

There is a saying on the Internet that the more times a woman has sex, the darker the color of her private parts will be, and many people firmly believe in this view.

In fact, this statement is pure rumor. The color of women's private parts is affected by many factors. The color of our skin is mainly affected by local melanocytes. The more local melanocytes there are, the darker the skin may be. The distribution of melanocytes in the human body is not uniform. Unfortunately, the distribution of melanocytes in the perineum is often higher. Therefore, whether it is male or female, the skin of the private parts is darker than other parts of the body. The specific color depth has a lot to do with individual differences, such as genetics (that is, some people are born darker than others).

In addition, repeated local vaginal inflammation of the vulva and vagina, long-term use of alkaline liquids to clean the vulva, local skin lesions, whether or not you have given birth, whether you have endocrine disorders, etc. can also affect the local skin color of the vulva. Even women who have never had sex may have dark private parts, which does not mean anything.

Long beard and hairy body

Doesn't mean sexual desire

Compared with European and American women, most Asian women have relatively smooth skin and relatively less hair, but some women do have beards and body hair. In fact, whether women are prone to beards and body hair is mostly related to genetics. For example, if parents have more beards and body hair, then their daughters may also inherit this feature. In addition, some women with polycystic ovary syndrome may have elevated androgen levels, which may cause beards, more body hair, dark skin, irregular menstruation, etc. Some women use androgens or similar drugs for treatment due to illness, which may also cause beards and body hair, but these will not have a significant impact on women's sexual desire.

Women's sexual desire is also affected by many factors, such as ovarian endocrine function, thyroid function, drugs (anti-allergic drugs reduce women's sexual desire), individual differences (age, culture, education, personality, cleanliness, etc.), marital relationship, emotions, stress, etc. It can be seen that beards, body hair and sexual desire are all affected by many factors, and beards and body hair do not mean strong female sexual desire.

Wipe the stool from back to front

Be careful to wipe out various gynecological diseases

The anatomical structure of female reproductive organs is very different from that of males. Female urethra is much shorter than male urethra and lacks physiological curvature. It is easier for females to have ascending infection in daily life, leading to urinary tract related symptoms, such as frequent urination, urgency, and pain during urination. Female vagina is directly connected to vulva, and the vaginal opening is open. If hygiene is not taken care of, various vaginal inflammations are prone to occur.

In addition, the female urethra and vagina are together, and the two often affect each other. When there is a urinary tract infection, it often causes vaginal inflammation. When there is vaginal inflammation, it may also cause urinary tract infection. Moreover, they are both very close to the female anus. If you wipe your "butt" after defecation without paying attention to the order of wiping, and wipe from back to front, it is possible to bring bacteria around the anus to the vagina, urethra and bladder, causing various vaginal inflammations and urinary tract infections.

Therefore, it is recommended that women wipe from front to back after urinating or defecating. This can effectively reduce contamination around the vagina and urethral opening and reduce the occurrence of related inflammation.

How many of these little-known facts do you know? What other little-known facts about women do you know? Please leave a comment below.

This article is a work of Science Popularization China-Starry Sky Project

Produced by: Science Popularization Department of China Association for Science and Technology

Producer｜China Science and Technology Press Co., Ltd., Beijing Zhongke Xinghe Culture Media Co., Ltd.

Author: Lan Yibing, deputy chief physician, Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine

Reviewer: Shou Huafeng, Deputy Director (in charge of work) of the Department of Gynecology, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital, Associate Chief Physician