Douching can disrupt the delicate, natural pH balance of the vagina, throwing the entire ecosystem out of whack. If your vagina does exhibit a particularly alarming smell, you shouldn’t douche.

Discouraging douching and proffering solutions on how women could care for their genitals without douching, a Midwife at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi, Anambra State, Joy ...

Douching is cleaning the inside of the vagina with water or other cleansing fluids. It is a fairly common practice, with some studies estimating that about one in every four women regularly douches.

It's unclear whether the chemical leads to long-term health risks in humans, but the findings reinforce doctors' warnings against douching.

Douching can disrupt the delicate, natural pH balance of the vagina, throwing the entire ecosystem out of whack. If your vagina does exhibit a particularly alarming smell, you shouldn't douche.

In the study of 50,000 women, though, douching rather than talc use was associated with increased risk of ovarian cancer. Long story short? STOP. DOUCHING. Seriously. We cannot emphasize this enough.

Douching is linked with bacterial and fungal vaginal infections. If you have an infection, douching can push up the infective organisms into your uterus, Fallopian tubes and ovaries.

"Douching is a harmful activity because it disrupts the healthy vaginal microorganisms and enables STIs to take hold," Dr. Sten H. Vermund of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville ...

Women who reported douching at least once in the past month had 52 percent higher concentrations of a form of DEP in their urine, the study found. For those who douched at least twice a month ...