If only they will teach us, from a young age, that menstruation is one of the most wonderful virtues that women have, that it is a magnificent portal of self-knowledge, introspection and profound wisdom, in our feminine cyclicity.
Since childhood, it is important to create in girls the habit of personal hygiene and self-examination of breasts and vulva, to keep them away from infections, inflammations, starting point of other more serious conditions.
Nainaz, answering the first question, with a lot of responsibility I share these habits:
Wash your genitals daily with neutral soap.
Every time you urinate or defecate, clean each area separately, from the perineum forward to the genitourinary area and from the perineum backward to the anal area.
Wash your hands very well before and after. Vaccination against HPV strains implies a 70% risk of breast or cervical cancer.
Once a month, palpate each mom per quadrant lying on her back looking for, pain, lumps, nipple discharge, recognizing with self-examination, it will alert you if there are changes. Maybe he feels every armpit.
Be well alert and observe, evaluate whether there is pain, discharge or vaginal secretions or not. How your breasts change before and after menstruation.
This routine will make you recognize that it is normal and that it is not. It is not recommended to use daily protectors, nor wet wipes for cleaning and much less if they have aromas, because all this favors the maintenance of the secretions there in the vulva and are perfect breeding ground for the growth of bacteria and fungi, both in the urinary and genital area.
Go to the gynecologist as soon as you have the menarche to start your annual hormonal control. And monitor growth, maturity.
After your sexual activity begins, Pap smears will be started to check for cervical cancer and fungal infections and viruses. It is necessary to talk about contraception. From the age of 40, mammography and breast ultrasound are added annually.
Throughout our life, we are exposed to multiple risks, both women and men.
These are just some of the tips that I can share when it comes to being preventively attentive to changes in order to act quickly and consequently have favorable well-being and health results for us.
I'm not talking about pregnant women, which is another topic, what I can address in another post.
Many health professionals do not recommend the use of deodorants, it increases the risk of breast cancer, less with talc, aluminum and pro-carcinogenic chemicals (they are like between 5000 and 8000, banned by the FDA, ha ha ha use it at your risk) or with aerosols and propellants.
After the experience I had with cancer a few years ago, I learned and was taught to know how to take care of myself, to value myself more than yesterday, but above all to respect myself with dignity and human value.
That is why it is a waste not to slow down the pace of life (even if it is the internal one), not to open the senses more than ever and prepare to live it with the greatest possible awareness, seeking and savoring every change, every experience and every learning.
In the photos, my dear Nainaz, and Ladies of Hive, I leave you here this "cherry", on my neck, there is a uterus that evokes that giant of love, humility and the transcendence of earthly ties, that never lets me forget my dreams, the ones I want to create and have faith in myself, that always reminds me to listen to my emotions and open paths inside so that life flows, and I connect with the women of my house, those who taught me to pray, to believe and to start a family.
I wish this sisterhood of Ladies of the Beehive, that the time has come to enhance the millinery wisdom, and intelligence of female bodies.
If we were taught to respect their rhythm, time and needs, to be at peace with our feminine cyclicality, it is one of the essential elements of our physical and psycho-emotional health.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for all your love and for appreciating my work so generously.
Janitze.
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