The amount of pubic hair is closely related to health

Every woman has pubic hair, but the amount varies from person to person. Pubic hair is closely related to women's health. In life, some women may not pay much attention to pubic hair. For the sake of health, they should understand the relevant common sense about pubic hair.

1. Physiologically too little pubic hair

Physiological hypotrichosis, also known as the simple absence of pubic hair, may be related to the sensitivity of the pubic hair follicles to androgens in people who are normal in other aspects.

For those who simply do not grow pubic hair but are normal in other aspects, it may be because the pubic hair follicles are insensitive to their own androgens. The endocrine system, menstrual cycle, sexual characteristics development, sexual function and fertility of most women with hypotrichosis are normal. This is not pathological and has nothing to do with it. It neither affects physical health nor marriage and fertility, so there is no need to worry about it.

Normal women have less body hair, most of which is physiological. There are no major diseases in the body and it has no impact on health.

2. Hypoplastic syndrome

Why do some women have no pubic hair and underarm hair? One reason is that the androgen level in women's bodies is low; the second reason is that the androgen receptors in the pubic and underarm hair follicles are insensitive to androgen or have other defects, or some women do not have such receptors at all.

When pubic and axillary hair is extremely sparse or absent, it is called hypotrichosis, which occurs in about 2.5% of the population.

Having too little pubic hair is a pathology in a few women. Very few cases of hypotrichosis are pathological, such as a genetic disease called Turner syndrome, which is a sex chromosome abnormality, also known as gonadal dysgenesis or congenital ovarian dysgenesis. The patient's chromosomes are mostly 45, X, with one less sex chromosome, which is caused by the non-disjunction or loss of sex chromosomes during the maturation of sex cells.

Female patients with this condition have gonadal insufficiency, characterized by short stature, webbed neck, underdeveloped breasts, immature external genitalia, and little or no hair on the mons pubis. They also suffer from amenorrhea due to the absence of ovarian follicles. Although they can have sexual intercourse, they are infertile. Women with hypothyroidism have no armpit hair and sparse pubic hair. They can have sex but their sexual desire is significantly reduced.

Simple gonadal dysgenesis is also accompanied by hypotrichosis, and fertility can be restored after treatment of mild cases.

If hypotrichosis is accompanied by other obvious symptoms, do not take it lightly and it is best to go to the hospital for examination as soon as possible.