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Volume 6, Issue 4 (Suppl)
J Nurs Care, an open access journal
ISSN: 2167-1168
Euro Nursing 2017
October 26-28, 2017
32
nd
EURO
NURSING AND MEDICARE SUMMIT
October 26-28, 2017 | Paris, France
Transition between generations: Vaginal douching practice and reproductive health problems
Yurdagül Yagmur
and
Sidar Aytekin
Inönü University, Turkey
V
aginal douching (VD) is described as washing of vagina (reservoir) with water, water and soap or the other solutions. VD
is common in cultures that define the female body, menstruation and sexual relations as dirty. There are many serious
problems about reproductive health woman because of VD. According the studies; there is no decrease about the ratio of
women’s VD practices. This case emphasizes that VD is an important women problem which still protecting update. The
researches in Turkey, it has been found that about 60% of women VD practices. The VD varies from a wide range from the
variety of products used to the purpose of showering. For example material used for VD are water, soap, various mixtures
prepared at home and commercial products sold on the market. The VD does not have the same meaning for each woman. It
is seen that there are reasons such as hygiene, religious belief, prevention from pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections
on VD practice. As long as women don’t take these practices with effective and preventable methods, it is inevitable to transfer
VD to the next generations as a traditional behavior. Because there are studies that mothers, peers or religious leaders are
effective on encouraging of VD practice. For this reason VD practice is a complex reproductive health problem that preventable
psychological, cultural and social determinants. There are health risks such as pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy,
cervical chlamydial infections, preterm birth. The women who practice VD are more common vulvovaginal symptoms such
as discharge, itching, burning and d dyspareunia. Also, VD has significant negative effects on fetal health such as intrauterine
growth retardation and spontaneous abortion. The most appropriate health care professional are nurses and midwives for
providing education abour the harms of VD. Because in health institutions women are more likely to meet with midwives and
nurses and can communicate with them more comfortably. However, it is very difficult to change women’s behaviour because
that traditional practices are based on beliefs. There for VD prevention counseling should be unbiased, and appropriate to
woman’s age, culture, sexual preference and development level. In order to discourage VD practice; there is also need researches
to the understand beliefs and reasons for VD.
Key words
: vaginal douching, nursing, reproductive problems
Biography
Sidar Aytekin is student of PhD program from İnönü University Institute of Health Science. She has been working as a clinical nurse in Diyarbakır province of Turkey
since 2013.
sidaraytekin@gmail.comYurdagül Yagmur et al., J Nurs Care 2017, 6:4(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2167-1168-C1-061