How to avoid the itching of the female genital zone

During their fertile age, a woman can use 20.000 units of buffers, compresses and daily protectors.The nature of women implies the usual use of this type of products, also when you use breastfeeding discs or to make up.For your intimate and, in general, your skin, it is basic to choose materials that are not harmful.

Dra.Maite Castillo, Junior consulting physician of the Gynecology and Obstetrics Service of the Hospital del Mar and Resonsoable of the Pathology of the Women's Pelvic Soil, together with Ramon Vendrell, General Director of Farmaconfort, a company manufacturer of compresses, tampons and daily cotton protectors, alert overThe importance of knowing what material these types of products that women use in their daily beauty care are manufactured.

Is it true that, according to the type of material that compresses and tampons carry, can they cause itching?

Yes, there are sensitive skins that do not tolerate prolonged direct contact with plastics or other products that may contain chemical substances or that have been chemically treated, such as cellulose, super-absorbents, perfumes or smell control systems.In fact, women often use compresses, daily protectors and buffers made with plastic materials believing that they contain a cotton percentage when it really is not so.

Where exactly do items are usually produced?

Mostly, these itching are produced in the female external genital area, since it is the skin that is in direct contact with the daily compresses and protectors.

How can they be avoided?

In a very simple and also economical way: using compresses, tampons and daily protectors made with pure cotton.It is a natural fiber that has exceptional and very beneficial characteristics for hygiene, helping to reduce and prevent the risks of irritations and allergies that many women suffer at some time in their lives.

What qualities does cotton have?

It is breathable, hypo-allergenic, guarantees the optimal level of moisture, is soft for the skin and is also compatible with the physiological pH.

Once these itching have appeared, how can they be treated?

The essential thing is to avoid excessive hygiene in the intimate area because the natural flora that the body itself generates could be eliminated.In addition, it is very important to use immediate compresses, daily protectors and cotton and cotton underwear also.In the event that these itchers persist, we advise visiting a specialist doctor.

They also produce dermatitis and allergies.How to detect them?

The woman knows her body very well and should not think that itching are due to hypersensitivity of her skin.Picores or allergies, generally, must have been in direct contact with synthetic materials that do not allow perspiration.Pure cotton is a guarantee of breathability and freshness and, in addition, it is able to avoid allergic reactions in the skin.Once again, insist that if the symptoms appear, excessive hygiene must be avoided and useful compresses, tampons and protectors of pure cotton pure.The difference is immediately noticeable.

Is this area more sensitive than others in the body and why?

It is equally sensitive as others.But if it is subjected to contact with products such as plastic, in certain cases it can generate irritations.Therefore, the choice of intimate hygiene products should never be based on the price or fashions or confusing advertisements, due to the large number of products that a woman uses during her fertile life.

How to know the real material that tampons and compresses are manufactured?

The truth is that for a consumer it is not easy to know this information since, in Europe, manufacturers are not obliged by law to indicate their composition, unlike what happens in the United States.The pure hypo-allergenic cotton that is used for the manufacture of this type of products can follow all the quality parameters established by the European pharmacopoeia and quality standards in manufacturing, according to safety and respect for the environment.

Are there buffers and breathable compresses?

Tampons in general are not breathable due to the pressing of raw materials.As for compresses, cotton are usually more breathable than cellulose since their fibers are not so pressed and air flows better between them.Many compresses have the lower plastic part, this prevents liquids from transferring and somewhat breathable.

The material from which tampons and compresses are composed is important, but also the clothes we put in this intimate area, right?

Yes.Gynecologists recommend the use of cotton underwear and not too tight.

Do you advise gels and other products for intimate hygiene and why?

Correct hygiene in the external genital zone is sufficient.We must not abuse the use of these products because we could run the risk of punishing or destroying the vaginal flora that the body itself generates.

*By Rosario Santa María, beauty editor and WWW director.Los VecinosdeMareva.com.