Can salt water be used to wash the vagina?

Salt water does have a bactericidal and disinfecting effect and can also be used to clean wounds, but this does not mean that every part of our body is suitable for cleaning with salt water, such as the genitals. It's not that you can't do it, but we don't recommend it. The vagina has a layer of epidermal mucous membrane, and salt water is a highly irritating substance. Once the two come into contact, it will cause great irritation to the vagina, destroying the environment of the vagina itself and causing bacteria to grow. Therefore, we recommend that you simply use warm water to clean your genitals.

In daily life, salt water can play many roles. Some women even use salt water to clean their genitals to achieve the effect of sterilization, but this practice is not scientific. In fact, if there is no inflammation, just clean the vagina with clean water. Clean water is the best cleaning liquid for the vagina. If you use salt water to clean the vulva, it will destroy the pH value in the vagina, which may be counterproductive and more conducive to the reproduction of bacteria, causing candidal vaginitis, which is counterproductive. Therefore, it is not recommended for female friends to use salt water to wash their lower body. So, you can wash your private parts with salt water, but it is not recommended.

Wash your private parts with salt water once or twice a week. The efficacy and function of household salt water usually has the purpose of vaginal health care. Generally speaking, you can use light salt water to clean the private parts appropriately, but it should not be too frequent, once or twice a week is enough. Normal saline can be combined with appropriate sodium bicarbonate solution for external use to assist in the treatment of certain types of vaginitis. Since sodium bicarbonate is a weak alkaline substance, and the vagina, vulva, and vaginal secretions are usually a weak acid environment, in order to avoid side effects, it is usually not recommended to use it frequently, and it should be used with caution.

If there is a physical illness, then stop cleaning for health purposes, and choose medicated solutions for the vulva or vagina. Its main purpose is to improve the symptoms caused by various diseases and to relieve various physical discomforts.

Wash the vulva with cool or warm boiled water once every 2-3 days. Do not douche your vagina every day. It is best to use running water every time you clean. The water used for washing cannot be reused. You can buy a vaginal douche to spray water on the vagina. The cleaning order is from front to back, that is, first the labia majora and minora, then the vaginal opening, and then the anus. If you have the conditions to take a bath once a day, you can just clean the vulva when you take a bath, and there is no need to wash it separately.