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Douche
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A vaginal bulb syringe with lateral holes near the tip of the nozzle (about 1 cm, or ½ inch, thick).
This "fountain syringe" should only be used for douching, by replacing the attached
enema nozzle with the vaginal nozzle (shown bottom left). The vaginal nozzle is longer and thicker and has lateral holes.
A douche (
/?du??/) is a device used to introduce a stream of water into the body for medical or hygienic reasons, or the stream of water itself.
Douche usually refers to vaginal irrigation, the rinsing of the
vagina, but it can also refer to the rinsing of any body cavity. A douche bag is a piece of equipment for douching?a bag for holding the fluid used in douching. To avoid transferring intestinal bacteria into the vagina, the same bag must not be used for an
enema and a vaginal douche.
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Etymology
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Vaginal douche apparatus with five quart tank from 1905 nursing text
Vaginal douches may consist of water, water mixed with
vinegar, or even
antiseptic chemicals. Douching has been touted as having a number of supposed but unproven benefits. In addition to promising to clean the vagina of unwanted odors, it can also be used by women who wish to avoid smearing a sexual partner's penis with menstrual blood while having
intercourse during
menstruation. In the past, douching was also used after intercourse as a method of
birth control, though it is not effective (see below).
Many health care professionals state that douching is dangerous, as it interferes with both the vagina's normal self-cleaning and with the natural bacterial culture of the vagina, and it might spread or introduce infections. For example, the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services strongly discourages douching, warning that it can lead to irritation,
bacterial vaginosis, and
pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). Frequent douching with water may result in an imbal...
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