A 62-year-old woman in Canada reportedly experienced 'second-degree burns' from vaginal steaming. Experts say the process is dangerous.
There’s a longstanding narrative in the female hygiene world that the vagina is an organ that needs professional cleaning — ideally, via steam. But as a 62-year-old woman in Canada who suffered “second-degree burns” from vaginal steaming learned recently, this concept may not be as harmless as it sounds.
In reactions online, some brought up one of the biggest celebrities to endorse vaginal steaming, Gwyneth Paltrow.— Perez Hilton August 7, 2019 The practice was undoubtedly popularized by Paltrow, who mentioned it in a Goop newsletter in 2015, and encouraged anyone “in the LA area” to try it. “You sit on what is essentially a mini-throne, and a combination of infrared and mugwort steam cleanses your uterus, et al.,” she wrote, according to Salon.
In a post on her blog in 2015, popular medical myth-buster Jen Gunter, MD, a board-certified ob-gyn, set the record straight. “The vagina should be viewed as self-cleaning ovens,” Gunter writes. “...We don’t know the effect of steam on the lower reproductive tract, but the lactobacilli strains that keep vaginas healthy are very finicky about their environment and raising the temperature with steam...is likely not beneficial and is potentially harmful.
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