Women's Health Promotion

There is never a universal "standard answer" to women's health. Whether it is a health prescription or a screening plan, it must be based on your age, physique, and living habits. Following the trend of buying online celebrity health products and doing "maintenance projects" in beauty salons is the easiest way to get into trouble.

Last week, I gave a lecture in a community in the High-tech Zone. When I was leaving, a 34-year-old woman pulled me to complain. She said that in the first half of the year, she applied for an annual "ovary maintenance" card worth nearly RMB 30,000 at a beauty salon. She also went for essential oil massage and infrared radiation once a week. In the past two months, she always felt pain in her lower abdomen. She went to the hospital to check out the pelvic pain. There was fluid in the cavity, and there was also a 2cm ovarian cyst. The doctor said that it was most likely caused by pressing it - normal ovaries are hidden deep in the pelvic cavity and cannot be touched by ordinary massage. If there is a small cyst itself, vigorous massage may easily lead to rupture or pedicle torsion. It is just a waste of money. I have come across too many examples of this, such as "private parts pinking technique" and "breast massage to eliminate nodules", they are all made up by merchants to make money for poor information. If you really have a problem and go to a beauty salon, it is better to spend more than ten yuan to get a gynecology number from a regular hospital.

Speaking of this, I have to mention the deep-rooted misunderstanding of many people: they think that the more they wash their private parts, the cleaner they will be. I treated a 22-year-old girl in the past two months. She used Internet celebrity private parts wash to irrigate her vagina every day. As a result, she was so itchy that she couldn't sit still. She came to check for fungal vaginitis caused by severe bacterial imbalance. To be honest with you, as long as there is no inflammation, just flushing the vulva with warm water is enough. The vagina itself has a self-cleaning acidic environment. If you wash it randomly, it will wash away the beneficial bacteria and more than triple the chance of getting inflammation.

There is another topic that everyone has been arguing about for several years - can Auntie eat ice? There is really no unified answer to this. The point of view of Western medicine is that as long as you don’t feel stomach pain after eating ice and your menstrual flow is not abnormal, then you can eat it. The ice will warm your stomach long ago and will not directly "cool the uterus"” ； However, the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine is that if you have a weak and cold constitution, your hands and feet are usually cold, and the pain makes you unable to straighten your back, then you should try to touch the cold as little as possible to avoid aggravating blood stasis. My own advice is that you know your body best. Eat when you feel comfortable and don’t do anything if it hurts. There is no need to insist on meeting any "health standards".

Oh, by the way, I have been asked about the HPV vaccine recently. Many people hold the idea of ​​"no vaccination unless it is nine-priced". They have not been vaccinated for three or four years, and they are still waiting until they are overage. The current academic consensus is actually very clear: the bivalent vaccine has covered types 16 and 18 that cause more than 70% of cervical cancers. It is extremely cost-effective. As long as you are of the right age, it is much better to get vaccinated first than to wait all the time. ； Of course, if you can get an appointment with Nine Price and your age is within the applicable range, it will definitely be better if Nine Price covers more subtypes. There is really no need to worry about "If you can't get Nine Price, it's a waste."

I have been giving lectures for so long, and the biggest headaches are two types of people: one type is so anxious about the slightest problem that they buy a bunch of health supplements. Last time, there was a sophomore girl who went on a diet for more than half a month during finals week. Her aunt thought she had a terminal illness after half a month of postponement, but she adjusted her schedule and became normal within two weeks.； The other type is those who feel that they are young and in good health, so they carry on with the slightest discomfort and never go for screening. A few months ago, I met a 28-year-old girl who had not had a TCT for three years after marriage. The unit test showed that HPV16 was positive and she already had low-grade lesions. Fortunately, it was discovered early. If it were delayed for another two or three years, it might have progressed. Let me remind you that if you are sexually active over the age of 21, you should do TCT+HPV combined screening every 3-5 years. For breasts, if you are under 30 years old, you should do a breast ultrasound every year, and if you are over 40 years old, you should have a mammography. These routine screenings do not cost much and can really prevent serious diseases.

Some people always ask me whether donkey-hide gelatin, bird's nest, and peach gum are IQ taxes? Let's put it this way, if you have good financial conditions, love to eat, and feel happy after eating, then that's absolutely fine, but don't expect to rely on these to replenish qi and blood or cure diseases. The main component of donkey-hide gelatin is collagen, which is not much different from eating a bowl of pig skin jelly. If you eat several cups of bird's nest, you might as well get an egg to replenish the sialic acid. If you are diagnosed with anemia, follow the doctor's advice and take some iron supplements, which will be much more effective than taking supplements worth thousands of dollars. Of course, some Chinese medicine practitioners believe that donkey-hide gelatin does have a regulating effect on people with blood deficiency. There is no need to deny this. If you really feel better after eating it and don't feel any discomfort, then just eat it as needed. You don't have to feel the psychological burden of hearing others say "it's all IQ tax".

In fact, I have been doing science popularization for so long, and my biggest feeling is that many of women's health anxieties are artificially created. Things like "anti-aging is necessary at the age of 30" and "the ovaries are one year older and a woman is ten years older" are all gimmicks used by businesses to sell goods. You should stay up less late at night, have three meals as regularly as possible, and take time to move every week. When you feel uncomfortable, don't search Baidu blindly, don't listen to the tricks of beauty salon girls, and go to a regular hospital to see a doctor, which is more reliable than any health prescription. After all, your body never has a "standard template". Comfort and health are more important than anything else.