Can I wash my vulva with salt water?

Vulvar itching is a common disease, mainly because vulvar itching is caused by bacterial or fungal infection due to the moisture of the vulva. It may also be a sexually transmitted disease caused by unclean sexual life. Women need to seek timely treatment. For women with vulvar itching, they can use salt water to clean the vulva. Physiological saline has a disinfecting and bactericidal effect and can inhibit the growth of bacteria. However, women should change their underwear frequently and pay attention to the hygiene of their sexual life.

Can I wash my vulva with salt water if it's itchy?

Yes, but this is not a cure. You should pay attention to cleanliness and hygiene, change and wash your underwear frequently, and pay special attention to the cleanliness of your lower body.

What causes vulvar itching?

1. Scabies infection

When scabies occurs, the external skin lesions are severe, so local itching is also obvious.

2. Drug allergy

"Fixed drug rash" caused by taking sulfonamides or other drugs in women with allergic constitution often occurs at the junction of the skin and mucous membrane of the vulva. In addition to local itching, it may be complicated by erosion and exudation. Vulvar itching may also occur if allergic reactions and contact dermatitis occur when using drugs for vaginal washing or vaginal insertion.

3. Underwear is not washed separately

Housewives who understand the importance of doing things know the direct relationship between laziness and gynecological diseases, so they wash their underwear by hand. Therefore, if underwear is washed together with other clothes, the underwear will be contaminated with bacteria.

4. Pinworm infection

It mainly attacks young girls, but adult women can also be infected. When the anus relaxes at night, pinworms crawl out of the rectum and swim to the vulva to mate and lay eggs, and irritate the skin and mucous membranes of the vulva, causing local itching.

5. Local skin is unclean

Some women use toilet paper improperly, causing the vulva skin to be soaked by menstrual blood, vaginal secretions, and even urine, feces and sweat, which causes chronic inflammation of the local skin and causes vulva itching.

6. The Dreaded Washing Machine Drum

The results of the study showed that 4,566 more Candida species were found per liter of water in the washing machine drum, and most of the mold found on clothes hung out to dry was also grown in the washing machine drum. Therefore, even if it is dry, the washing machine should be opened to air dry after washing clothes, and the filter bag should be removed and hung outside when not in use. Let it dry thoroughly; once every two or three months, soak the washing machine drum in oxygen bleach overnight, or wash it in hot water at 45°C.

7. My husband's athlete's foot

Athlete's foot is a gathering place for fungi, and it can infect anything related to it, such as socks, bath towels, bed sheets and quilts. In families where there is athlete's foot, the wife is much more likely to suffer from candidal vaginitis. To prevent fungal vaginitis, it is necessary to actively treat athlete's foot.

Vulvar itching treatment remedies

1. 2 eggs, half an apple, 20 grams of sugar, 150 ml of milk. Crack the eggs into a pot of boiling water and cook until done, then remove from the water and place in a bowl. Peel and core the apple, cut into small cubes, put into a pot with sugar and milk, and boil. Pour into a bowl with a poached egg. Eat once in the morning and once in the evening.

2. 30 grams each of mung beans and kelp, appropriate amount of white sugar, and 100 grams of polished rice. First wash and chop the kelp, soak the mung beans for half a day, wash the rice, and cook them into porridge. When it is almost cooked, add sugar. Take it once a day in the morning and evening for 7 to 10 days.

3. If women’s genitals are extremely itchy, you can use one liang of Cnidium monnieri and two qian of alum, boil them into a decoction and wash the area frequently.

4. Use 50 grams of scallion roots and 50 peppercorns, add 500 ml of water and boil, then wash the genitals twice a day for 3 consecutive days and the condition will be cured.

5. Use 2 liang of wolf's teeth and 3 liang of cnidium monnieri, boil them in hot water and wash with the medicine.

6. Roll the rosin powder into a paper tube, add three peppercorns to each tube, soak in oil for three days, let the paper tube burn and drip oil, and apply the oil to the affected area. Before applying the oil, wash the affected area with rice water.

7. Take 500 grams of fresh peach leaves. Add water to boil the decoction and use it to fumigate and wash the affected area twice a day, or mash an appropriate amount of peach leaves, wrap them with gauze and insert them into the vagina, change them twice a day, and use them for 1 week.

8. Take 6 grams each of gentian, gardenia, and phellodendron, 10 grams each of moneywort, plantain seed (wrapped in cloth), and radix polygoni multiflori, 12 grams of Alisma orientalis, and 9 grams of atractylodes. Decoction in water, 1 dose per day, divided into 2 doses.

Through the above introduction, we know that if the vulva is itchy, washing with salt water is okay, but this is not a long-term solution. There are many reasons that cause vulvar itching. In daily life, not paying attention to washing underwear separately from other clothes, improper skin cleaning, and taking some medications, etc., may all cause vaginal itching. There are many dietary remedies in life that you can try.