Contents:
- Medical Video: Up To 180 Orgasms In Two Hours: Woman Living With Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder
- When do women need to abstain from sex?
- 1. After surgery
- 2. Urinary tract infections
- 3. Vaginal bacterial infection
- 4. Vaginal yeast infection
- 5. Venereal disease
- What can be done in the recovery period
Medical Video: Up To 180 Orgasms In Two Hours: Woman Living With Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder
Abstain from having sex can be done for several reasons. For example, when running a particular service, if you are preventing pregnancy, or for various personal reasons. However, it turns out there are also some medical reasons that require women to refrain from sex. What are these medical conditions? See the explanation below, yes.
When do women need to abstain from sex?
Sex does have various health benefits for women, for example relieving headaches and reducing menstrual pain. However, sex can also be at high risk if you are experiencing a certain medical condition. Sexual health experts urge you to abstain from sex first if you have the following five conditions.
1. After surgery
Your doctor will usually advise you to abstain from sex after you have surgery in the pelvic, uterine or stomach area. For example caesarean section, appendicitis surgery, hysterectomy (lift the uterus), or tubectomy (sterile birth control). Usually within a few weeks your body is still recovering from these operations. Having sex after surgery risks causing injury or infection that can hinder the recovery process.
2. Urinary tract infections
If you are on treatment for urinary tract infections, you should never abstain from sex first. Because, sex can aggravate this bacterial infection. You can go back to making love as usual after completing treatment with prescription antibiotics. Generally this treatment takes about five to seven days. After making love, don't forget to pee first! This is so you can prevent bacteria in the vaginal area from moving into the urethra.
3. Vaginal bacterial infection
Vaginal bacterial infections caused by chaotic bacterial colonies in the vaginal area. There should be a balanced amount of good and bad bacteria in the vagina. However, if there are more numbers of bad bacteria in the vagina, you run the risk of getting an infection.
In order for this bacterial infection to heal quickly, avoid having sex first. Sex has the risk of causing the number of bacteria in a woman's sex organs to be unbalanced. In addition, this infection is also usually characterized by pain and unpleasant vaginal odor. This certainly makes you uncomfortable when having sex.
4. Vaginal yeast infection
Similar to vaginal bacterial infections, yeast infections can cause inflammation in tissues in the intimate area of a woman. Sex can aggravate this inflammation due to friction or pressure on the vagina. So, you should wait until your treatment is complete and your infection is cured before having sex with your partner.
5. Venereal disease
Not that people who have sexually transmitted diseases or venereal diseases cannot have sex at all. However, be careful when there are pus bumps (outbreak) in the vagina for those of you who have genital herpes. Moment outbreak this risk of herpes transmission is high. To be safe, you can never make love first outbreak subside.
However, if you and your partner don't mind making love when outbreak and you have safe sex, you may have sex as usual.
What can be done in the recovery period
Abstinence from having sex does not mean you and your partner cannot make out like other couples. To maintain intimacy, you and your partner can make out and cuddling (hugging) while chatting or doing other romantic things. You can also massage each other to pamper your partner.
