Intimate hygiene of an adolescent girl: principles, modern opportunities and problem of introduction

30 girls aged from 11 to 17 years were surveyed in order to research the use of gels for the intimate hygiene containing xylitol, alginates and allantoin combined with chamomile extract or quince that have a neutral pH and do not contain perfumes. The average age of pa-tients was 15.2 ± 2.8 years (11; 17). Surveyed patients used to have the following clinical diagnosis: ovarian cysts - 8 patients , ovarian apoplexy - 8, acute salpingo-oophoritis - 1, abnormal uterine bleeding - 13. Patients were asked to evaluate the following quality criteria according to the scale from 1 to 5 scores: simplicity of use, comfort after hygienic procedures, the feeling of freshness, the perfume. Mean score for simplicity was 4.5 ± 0.7 (2; 5), comfort after the procedure - 4.5 ± 0.7 (3; 5), feeling of freshness - 4.6 ± 0.5 (3; 5) and perfume - 4.1 ± 0.9 (2; 5). 7 of 30 patients (23.3 %) estimated the perfume as scores 2 and 3. Lowest score 3.7 ± 1.2 was given by youngest girls aged 11-13 years (n = 6). Girls aged 14-15 years (n = 9) gave the higher score that equaled 4.1 ± 0.8 and girls aged 16-17 years (n = 15) gave the highest mean score of 4.3 ± 0,7. 22 (73.3 %) of 30 girls almost over 15 years old said they intend to use this hygienic agent in the future. 8 (26.7 %) younger girls found this difficult to assess. Thus, attractiveness of this agent for personal hygiene was lower in girls from younger age group (11-13 years) due to the absence of perfume and in spite of numerous assets.

children, personal hygiene, prevention, genital inflammatory diseases