Female Piercing

Both the administration of a chemotherapy treatment and the performance of a female genital piercing require the use of a needle. A needle is used to open the vein, prior to the introduction of the chemotherapy drugs. A needle is also used to carry-out the piercing of the genital area. Still, that connection does not represent the only connection between chemotherapy and female genital piercing. There is another way that those two needle pushing activities have a similar point of reference. Both activities have an association with some sort of infectious agent. Both activities can be a source of problems, as well as a solution.

Not every woman should feel comfortable about seeking a health professional who can perform a female genital piercing. A woman who has just undergone a bone transplant should have second thoughts about requesting a female genital piercing. That is especially true, if that same woman is currently undergoing chemotherapy or radiation treatments.

When a woman who has had a bone transplant undergoes either chemotherapy or  radiation treatment, she puts herself at risk for the development of a vaginal yeast infection. Since performance of a female genital piercing can not be done without introduction of a possible infection, the woman who invites both a vaginal yeast infection and a genital infection does not deserve to be called a “wise woman.”

If such a woman were to insist on a female genital piercing, then she should be encouraged to buy the drug Diflucan. That drug is used to treat vaginal yeast infections. Unfortunately, it has not been proven effective against all genital infections. Why does Diflucan relieve the symptoms of a yeast infection, but not the symptoms of a bacterial infection, such as one might suffer following any type of piercing?

A woman who is thinking about getting a female genital piercing should understand the difference between a yeast infection and a bacterial infection. A yeast infection normally occurs when there is damage to the “good” bacteria that live in a woman’s vaginal region. Those bacteria restrict the growth of yeast in the woman’s vagina. They normally prevent to occurrence of a vaginal infection.

If, however, a woman must undergo either chemotherapy or radiation treatment, the fast growing cells in her body will be severely damaged. Bacteria grow rapidly, and so such treatments also damage any “good” bacteria in the body. After they damage the bacteria in the woman’s vaginal region, some yeast often manage to make a “home” in that part of the woman’s body.

Infections that might result from female genital piercing are not caused by yeast, or by “good” bacteria. They are caused by “bad” bacteria, bacteria that do not belong in the human body. The arrival of those “bad” bacteria causes a string of responses. Those responses demonstrate the body’s attempt to kill the invading bacteria.

If a woman who has had a genital piercing develops an infection, she could be a candidate for a female genital piercing photo. Such a photo could be used to warn other women about the potential dangers associated with a genital piercing. Such a photo could show the redness and swelling that accompany the development of a bacterial infection.

Were there to be an aggressive distribution of that photo, then a much smaller number of women would set out on a search for a particular health professional. A much smaller group of women would choose to seek out those health professionals who know how to perform a female genital piercing.