Contents:
- Medical Video: Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)
- What might happen to the vagina when you are on holiday?
- 1. Leucorrhoea
- 2. Vaginal bacterial infection
- 3. Vaginal yeast infection
- 4. Urinary tract infection (UTI)
- Tips for maintaining vaginal hygiene while on vacation
- Avoid clothes or pants that are too tight
- Clean the vagina regularly
- Use the pantyliner
Medical Video: Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)
You may have plans to travel to exciting places for a long time. However, in addition to vacation plans, there is one more important thing that you should not miss when you want traveling What's more if it's not your vaginal hygiene?
When you are on vacation, you might forget to keep your vagina clean.In fact, maintaining the cleanliness of the vagina when you vacation is actually not difficult, you know!
Previously, you had to know what would happen to your sex organs when traveling and how to best maintain vaginal hygiene even though the holiday schedule is so crowded. Check out all the information below!
What might happen to the vagina when you are on holiday?
Here are things that are very likely to happen to the vagina when you are on vacation. Watch for symptoms, huh!
1. Leucorrhoea
Leucorrhoea or vaginal discharge normal should not smell, clear or white, and the texture is rather thick. However, be careful if you experience abnormal vaginal discharge.
Abnormal vaginal discharge, for example because of too much, yellowish, pungent odor, or lumpy can indicate a problem in your vagina.
Well, this is very vulnerable for women to experience on vacation. According to Palo Alto Medical Foundation, after physical activity or exercise (such as riding a mountain or cycling around the city) women will indeed experience more vaginal discharge than usual. The more vaginal discharge, the area of your vagina will certainly become more moist.
Coupled with the fact that during your vacation you must be busy traveling. The temperature around the vagina increases because of the friction that occurs when you walk. The groin area becomes even more damp because you sweat.
2. Vaginal bacterial infection
According to an internal study British Medical Journal (BMJ), vaginal bacterial infection is the most commonly reported cause of abnormal vaginal discharge. This disease can arise if you do not maintain vaginal hygiene properly.
If you forget to maintain cleanliness, the balance of flora (colonies of good and bad bacteria) in the vagina will be disrupted. Even good levels of bacteria decrease so bad bacteria grow more malignant and cause infection.
So, experts advise women to frequently change underwear in a day so that the intimate area is always clean, fresh and dry. Even though, on vacation you might be traveling all day. It must be a hassle if you have to bring stock of changing underwear, not to mention you have to replace it in a public toilet.
Because of that, when traveling You might use the same pants from morning till late at night. The vagina becomes full of bad bacteria and eventually you get an infection.
3. Vaginal yeast infection
According to an obstetrician from the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in the United States, Dr. Melissa Goist, mushrooms (yeast) will thrive in moist and warm environments.
Therefore, a moist and warm vagina during the holidays is very vulnerable to vaginal yeast infection. Especially if you have had this infection before.
Symptoms of vaginal yeast infection include vaginal itching or pain and very thick vaginal discharge. Pay attention to these symptoms, especially if you are on vacation in the city where the weather is hot and humid or you have a lot of physical activity during the holidays.
4. Urinary tract infection (UTI)
Urinary tract infection or UTIs do often occur in women on vacation. UTIs occur when bad bacteria from the rectum (rectum) move to your urethra.
Washing the vagina from the back to the front (the right is from front to back) or using the same panties all day can increase the chance of bacteria from the rectum to spread and move everywhere, for example to the urethra or vagina.
Symptoms of UTI that you need to be aware of while on vacation are pain when urinating, urine (urine) becomes cloudy, and anyang -anganangan (like wanting to urinate continuously even though nothing comes out).
Tips for maintaining vaginal hygiene while on vacation
Take it easy, there are various ways that you can take to maintain vaginal hygiene and prevent disease when on vacation. It's not difficult, really. Just do the following things.
Avoid clothes or pants that are too tight
When on vacation, ideally you use pants that fit on your body or are rather loose. This is so that your vaginal area gets enough air circulation and to prevent friction during your activities.
The problem is, pants that are too tight will make the vagina warmer and more moist so it is susceptible to bacterial or fungal infections.
Clean the vagina regularly
Experts advise all women to wash their vagina with warm water at least once a day. However, after you urinate and defecate, you are also required to wash it with water until it's clean. No need to use fragrance or feminine soap. Very easy, right?
Use the pantyliner
Instead of carrying lots of stockings of panties when walking all day, there is a much easier and hygienic solution: use pantyliners. If the vagina feels damp, you can just replace the pantyliner that is being used with the new one. You can dispose of old pantyliners, no need to be saved as if you are changing underwear.
You can change pantyliners frequently so that the vagina stays dry, clean, fresh, and free to breathe. According to a skin specialist from the Cleveland Clinic in the United States, Dr. Melissa Piliang, pantyliner has good absorption when you are having a lot of vaginal discharge. Therefore, your vagina will not become too moist and prone to infection.
Follow the advice of Dr. Melissa Piliang, change your pantyliner as often as possible. At least every 4 hours or every pantyliner you feel feels damp due to vaginal discharge.
