Can I take a shower when I have my period?

You must take good care of yourself during menstruation and understand some precautions during menstruation. You can take a bath during menstruation, but sitting bath is not recommended. Sitting bath will cause some dirty water to enter the vagina and may infect the uterus, so you must stand to wash. Do not use cold or warm water for bathing during menstruation, you must use hot water. After taking a bath, dry yourself in time and keep warm.

Girls should take better care of themselves during menstruation. Of course you can take a shower during your period, but there are a few rules to keep in mind.

Five major issues

Rinse quickly, avoid getting cold, and do not take a bath.

During menstruation, the endometrium is exfoliated, which opens the small blood vessels in the uterus. If you take a tub bath, an ascending infection may occur and spread to the pelvic cavity or fallopian tubes, which may cause pelvic inflammatory disease, fallopian tube adhesions, blockage, etc.

The bath water temperature should be appropriate and cold water should not be used.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that women are naturally more resistant to cold. This is because compared with men, women have weaker yang energy and insufficient qi and blood. During menstruation, when menstrual blood is discharged, the human body itself is weaker than usual. At this time, the body's resistance to external pathogens becomes relatively low. If they encounter cold water stimulation at this time, it is more likely to lead to the invasion of cold air, causing a series of diseases.

Keep your personal toiletries safe and do not mix them.

Girls should ensure that the towels and washing utensils they use for bathing are not mixed with those of others, especially when they or they suffer from infectious diseases such as athlete's foot, so as to avoid fungal infections of the genitals.

Do not use shower gel to clean the genitals.

During menstruation, women's vagina is more likely to produce some odor, so they will use shower gel to clean their vagina while taking a bath. Some women will even use hot water to wash their vagina repeatedly. In fact, these practices are not healthy. Not only can they fail to achieve the purpose of cleaning, but they can easily cause vaginal infection and lead to itching. Because the female vagina is usually slightly acidic, which can inhibit the growth of bacteria, but during menstruation the vagina becomes alkaline, and the resistance to bacteria is reduced, making it more susceptible to infection. Therefore, if you do not use professional vaginal cleaning solution to clean the vulva, or directly use hot water to wash it repeatedly, it will lead to an increase in alkalinity, which will destroy the self-cleaning environment in the vagina and reduce immunity. Therefore, you need to choose a professional vaginal cleaning solution to clean the vulva, especially during menstruation.

Learn the correct way to clean your private parts.

When cleaning, you should first clean the vaginal opening and urethral opening, then clean around the anus, and do not clean back and forth. Because the wrinkles around the anus will gather some residual bacteria during defecation, if you wash it back and forth with water, the bacteria in the anus will be brought into the vagina and cause infection.