All types of feminine products are advertised to women — but are they really secure?
A gynecologist named Dr. Staci Tanouye posted a video on TikTok talking in regards to the products women should avoid using in the event that they need to keep their vagina healthy, the Sun reported.
Since being posted in October, the video has been viewed greater than 510,000 times.
Tanouye’s top tip is to avoid scented products.
“I’d never use any scented or fragranced pads or tampons,” the doc declared. “And yes, this includes essential oils.
“Essential oils are only like all other scent — it’s a contact irritant,” she further explained, adding that scented products can irritate the sensitive skin of the vagina.
Tanouye also warned her followers to make certain they check product labels.
“I even have seen some products labeled as sensitive that also have essential oils in them,“ she said.
Tanouye’s next no-no is using wet wipes.
“You’ll never find wet wipes in my bathroom,” she said. “Because similar to you don’t use them in your face, since it strips away the natural protectant oils that protect your skin and your face, it does the identical thing to the vulva.”
Tanouye also said that consistently wiping the labia area or “outside within the hair-baring area you’re just stripping away the natural oils that protect that skin and keep that skin being healthy.”
“Don’t do it. Toss ’em,” she suggested.
Lastly, Tanouye said to avoid boric acid suppositories.
“We use boric acid suppositories in very specific situations of recurrent and resistant bacterial vaginosis or yeast infections,” she explained.
But people using the suppositories after they don’t must are potentially ridding their body of healthy bacteria.
“Just using boric acid suppositories here and there because you think that you’ll want to shouldn’t be doing what you think that it’s doing,” Tanouye explained.
She said that unfortunately there are “so many more” products that aren’t healthy to make use of.
Her followers thanked her for educating them on vaginal health and a few of them shared their very own negative experiences.
“Ya girl unintentionally bought apple-scented pads, they usually BURNED — and weren’t very absorbent,” one woman revealed.
“I unintentionally picked up these menthol pads (didnt even know these weree a thing) and had to go away work since it was SPICY,” one other shared.
The Post reached out to Tanouye for comment.
