Watch out, wearing your favorite tight-fitting pants and shaving your pubic hair too often may lead to vulvodynia, a condition that causes unexplained pain in the area around the opening of the vagina.
Risk of chronic vulva discomfort and pain nearly doubled by removing hair from mons pubis, or wearing tight-fitting jeans or pants four or more times a week.
Vulvodynia
Vulvodynia is chronic pain near the vaginal opening that can affect women of any age group.
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‘Wearing tight-fitting jeans or pants and removing unwanted pubic hair can put you at a higher risk of developing severe vulvar pain (vulvodynia).’
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Vulvodynia is chronic, unexplained, and debilitating vulva pain, affecting an estimated 16 percent of women over their lifetimes. A new Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) study finds that the risk of vulvodynia is nearly doubled by wearing tight-fitting jeans or pants four or more times a week, or removing hair from the mons pubis. Published in theJournal of Lower Genital Tract Disease, it is the first study to show a link between clothing and grooming and the condition.
"With an increase in the prevalence of pubic hair removal directly from the vulvar region, particularly in adolescent girls, the microabrasions to this sensitive area may predispose young women to immune-inflammatory complications," says study senior author Dr. Bernard Harlow, professor of epidemiology at BUSPH. "Likewise, tight-fitting jeans or pants can create an environment that fosters genital tract infections, which have been shown to be associated with vulvar pain onset."
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Pubic hair grooming is most common among men and women and the frequency of grooming and the degree of grooming were risk factors associated with injury.
The research team used data from self-reported histories of personal hygiene behaviors a year before first reported the onset of vulvar pain among 213 women with clinically confirmed cases of vulvodynia, and a similar time period among 221 women with no history of vulvar discomfort.
They found that women who wore tight-fitting jeans or pants four or more times per week had twice the odds of vulvodynia compared to women who never or rarely did. Most of the women in both groups reported removing pubic hair, but those who removed hair from the mons pubis (the soft mound of skin above the genitals) were 74 percent more likely to experience vulvodynia than women who only removed hair from the bikini area. Compared with women who reported removing only bikini-area hair less than monthly, those who removed hair from the mons pubis weekly or more were nearly twice as likely to experience vulvodynia.
Source: Eurekalert
Injuries Related to Pubic Hair Grooming On the Rise
Pubic hair grooming is most common among men and women and the frequency of grooming and the degree of grooming were risk factors associated with injury.
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The research team used data from self-reported histories of personal hygiene behaviors a year before first reported the onset of vulvar pain among 213 women with clinically confirmed cases of vulvodynia, and a similar time period among 221 women with no history of vulvar discomfort.
They found that women who wore tight-fitting jeans or pants four or more times per week had twice the odds of vulvodynia compared to women who never or rarely did. Most of the women in both groups reported removing pubic hair, but those who removed hair from the mons pubis (the soft mound of skin above the genitals) were 74 percent more likely to experience vulvodynia than women who only removed hair from the bikini area. Compared with women who reported removing only bikini-area hair less than monthly, those who removed hair from the mons pubis weekly or more were nearly twice as likely to experience vulvodynia.
Source: Eurekalert
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