The Complete Book of Women's Health

There is no unified health formula suitable for all women. The most effective health management is never to follow the trend and buy Internet celebrity supplements or copy other people's health schedules. Instead, it is enough to first focus on the three basics of "eating enough nutrition, sleeping enough for 7 hours, and not being emotionally consumed for a long time", and then making targeted adjustments according to your own physique, living habits, and age.

Last week, two 28-year-old girls came to my clinic at the same time. One is an Internet operator. She stayed up until two or three o'clock every day to change the plan. When she came in, she clutched her hair and said that her aunt had postponed it for two months. The hair gap was wide enough to insert three fingers.； The other is a university administrator. He has a regular schedule and must lie down at ten o'clock every day, but he suffers from fungal vaginitis repeatedly and is extremely worried. It would be really harmful if they were prescribed the same regimen based on the "10 health-preserving things that 28-year-old women must do" on the Internet. The former must first supplement high-quality protein and adjust their work and rest, while the latter must throw away the private parts care solution they use every day and wear less tight jeans. This is the meaning of individual differences.

When it comes to private parts care, there has been a lot of quarrel in the past two years. Some people say that you should never use any lotion, and washing with clean water is the best. Others say that weakly acidic lotion can maintain the balance of the flora and is no problem for daily use. Among the clinical cases I have been exposed to, there are indeed cases where antibacterial lotion was used every day to wash out the bacterial flora imbalance, and there are also cases where mild care lotion was used once in a while after menstruation, but no inflammation occurred again. The current consensus in the academic circle is: washing the vulva with warm water for daily cleaning is enough. If you don’t feel uncomfortable after using a regular brand of weakly acidic lotion, there is no need to hold it back. There is never a one-size-fits-all standard.

Oh, by the way, here’s another question that gets asked a lot: Can girls drink ice? The traditional Chinese medicine school says that cold and cold damage the uterus, and drinking too much can cause dysmenorrhea and make you age quickly. The western medicine school says that as long as you don’t feel uncomfortable after drinking it, it will be fine. If the cold medicine enters the stomach, it will heat up already, and it will not touch the uterus. I’ve seen girls from the Northeast nibbling on popsicles in the middle of the winter and they were fine with it, and I’ve seen girls from the South of the Yangtze River break into cold sweats after taking a sip of iced milk tea. There’s really no need to resist drinking because of the so-called “girls must avoid cold drinks.” There’s also no need to pretend that it’s fine even though it hurts just to show off. Your body’s feelings are more accurate than any faction’s opinion.

Don't think that only diet and rest are important. Emotions really have a much greater impact on women than you think. A while ago, a 42-year-old patient came for a review. She was diagnosed with grade 3 breast nodules six months ago. When she got the report, she cried at home every day for fear of becoming cancerous. After three months of review, the nodules had grown from 1cm to 1.8cm. Later, she listened to me and quit her job. She signed up for a pottery class that she had wanted to learn when she was young. She kneaded mud in the studio every day. When she came for a checkup last month, the nodules actually shrank to 0.7cm. To be honest, women's breasts, thyroid, and ovaries are all "target organs" for emotions. Your sulking and grievances will eventually come to your body to settle the score, which is more harmful than eating ten meals of junk food.

A reader left a message for me before, saying that he ate boiled vegetables every day in order to lose fat, and lost 15 pounds in three months. My aunt stopped immediately and went to check that estrogen was so low that it was almost close to menopausal levels. She also said that the Internet said that "fat reduction must be low-carb" to be effective. I laughed angrily at her. You are only 160 cm and 90 pounds, and you still dance for two hours every day. Of course there will be problems with low carbs. ； But if you have a large base and are found to be insulin resistant, moderately low-carb diets can help you regulate hormone levels. There is no fat-loss diet that is suitable for everyone.

By the way, by the way, cervical erosion is not a disease, it is a normal physiological phenomenon and does not require treatment. Don’t be deceived into minimally invasive surgery by unscrupulous institutions. There was a 25-year-old girl who was deceived into having surgery before. Later, when she became pregnant, the cervical insufficiency almost caused a miscarriage. She came to me crying, which is really a pity. There is also the saying that "being HPV positive means you will get cervical cancer", it is even more ridiculous. 80% of women will be infected with HPV once in their lives, and most people will become negative in one or two years based on their own immunity. Regular TCT screening is better than anything else.

I myself have followed the trend and bought many online celebrity health care products, such as mugwort cushions, warm palace belts, and anti-sugar pills. Later, I found that for people like me who are cold, using the warm palace belt is really comfortable in winter. My colleague who is afraid of heat developed oral ulcers all over his mouth after using it twice.； I don’t eat enough fruits and vegetables from takeaways every day, so taking vitamin supplements is really helpful. My sister’s family who owns an orchard eats fresh fruits every day, but supplementing with vitamins has caused the problem of excessive supplementation. There are no "health-preserving foods that girls must take in their lives". They are always like honey to one and arsenic to another.

In fact, when I was compiling this article, I was still looking through previous patient records, and found that many people had no problems at all, but insisted on following the "perfect health standards" on the Internet, and instead they developed problems. There is no universal book on women's health. Your own body knows you better than any expert or any post. Get a physical examination on time every year. Don't blindly follow other people's lifestyles. Listen to your own body's voice more than anything else.