Dear Women: 4 health issues your v****a faces when you clean it with a toilet paper

If you’ve been leaving the bathroom feeling sore, irritated, itchy, or otherwise uncomfortable, you aren’t alone.


Here’s the awful stuff that toilet paper can do to your v**ina and what you can do to stop the icky cycle.

1. Microcuts
This is the stuff of nightmares, but when you wipe your v**ina you can create hundreds of microcuts on your labia and elsewhere. This is not only painful but can lead to dangerous infections. We’re not saying give up the TP, but try dabbing your v**ina instead of wiping to protect yourself from dangerous microcuts.

2. Puffiness
So many toilet papers out there contains chemicals, fragrances, and dyes. These make for a nice looking and smelling product, but they can wreak havoc on your v**ina, irritating the tissue which can lead to serious puffiness and itching.

White toilet paper often contains BLEACH which (surprise) can be very irritating to some more sensitive vaginas. Another cause of puffiness can be too much wiping. If your v**ina is puffy, start with easing on the wiping pressure. If this doesn’t help, try buying an unbleached organic toilet paper that’s formeldahyde-free.

3. UTIs
In women the urethra is pretty darn short. That means it can be easier for bacteria to creep up and cause infections. If you’re wiping back to front you could be pushing feces (which is riddled with bacteria) into your urethra putting you on a one way track to UTI city. There’s an easy fix, start wiping front to back.

4. Yeast Infections
The chemicals in your toilet paper that are causing puffiness in your v**ina. They can also be giving you yeast infections. The chemicals used to give paper fragrance can mess with your v**ina’s perfectly balanced PH system and lead to recurring yeast infection. If you think your TP is giving you yeast infections, trying switching out to something hypoallergenic.

(Source: Informationng)