Dr Arikawe Adeolu, an Abuja-based medical expert, on Tuesday the 4th of October, advised that it is safer to trim the hair rather than shaving it off completely.
According to the medical expert who spoke with the News Agency, shaving your hair ‘down there’ completely can expose your bodies to different infection.
He explained that one of the dangers of shaving or waxing of the hair around the pubic is that, it may crack, expose the skin to bacterial infection, boils, and a breeding ground for organisms like bacteria.
“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 the risk of getting an infection.
Dr. Adeola stressed that the hair served a major purpose of providing some level of cushioning for the individual, especially during s3xual activity, preventing the skin from rubbing against another and causing abrasion.
He noted 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.
Adeolu said that trimming instead of shaving completely would help to reduce the risk of contacting S3xually Transmitted Infection (STI), which could also be contacted when fluid from an infected partner’s Instruments 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 a 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,’’ he added.
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.
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