WHY YOU MUST STOP SHAVING PUBIC HAIR – EXPERT WARNS
Contrary to well acclaimed hygienic practice, a medical
expert has warned of the dangers in completely shaving the pubic hair. Dr
Arikawe Adeolu, an Abuja-based medical expert, advised that it is safer to trim
the hair rather than shaving it off completely. He said that complete shaving
of the hair could cause infection.
Shavers for shaving pubic hair Adeolu told
our correspondent on Tuesday that shaving or waxing of the hair around the
pubic could cause cracks and expose the skin to bacterial infection. He added
that the pubic hair served a major purpose of providing some level of
cushioning for the individual, especially during sexual activity, preventing the
skin from rubbing against another and causing abrasion.
He explained that if
the skin around the pubic region was completely shaved and the individual’s
skin came into contact with another person’s skin, friction would be increased
due to the skin to skin contact.
He advised that individuals who were worried
about the lack of hygiene due to untended pubic hair should consider trimming
rather than complete shaving or waxing of the hair.
“When you completely shave
the pubic hair, it re-grows in a slanted fashion with the tip sometimes growing
into the pubic skin, which can crack open the skin.
“It is usually a small
crack which cannot be seen with the naked eyes but due to this crack and loss
of integrity of the skin at that level, there is increased risk of getting
infection.
“Complete shaving can also cause boil to develop in that region.
This is because when you shave, you cause some level of abrasion in the area
which opens up the skin. “These small openings cannot be seen with the eye but
they are big enough for the micro organisms to get into the body.
“Also,
because the pubic area is always moist, this serves as breeding ground for
organisms like bacteria.” Adeolu said that trimming the pubic hair would also
help to reduce the risk of contacting Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI),
which could also be contacted when fluid from an infected partner’s genitalia
came into contact with the pubic area.
According to him, if the partner is
already infected, the virus in the semen or body fluid can easily penetrate the
skin of the other to infect the individual.
He said that this infection was
mostly caused by a virus known as ‘Molluscum contagiosum’, adding that there
had been significant increase in incidences of such infection in hospitals. “It
is a viral infection that is also categorised as an STI.
It affects the skin
and does not need treatment; usually after a couple of weeks or months, the
symptoms go away by themselves.
“You also have an increased risk of contacting
other STIs such as HIV, Hepatitis, genital warts by complete shaving of the
pubic hair,’’ Adeolu said.
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