Most women use condoms harmlessly, a few long-term use of condoms may lead to allergies, inflammation, cervical damage, and so on.
1. Allergy: condoms are mainly made of rubber and contain a small amount of lubricant. Some women may be more sensitive to the components of rubber or lubricant, and under prolonged stimulation of condoms, allergic symptoms such as itchiness, redness, erythema, and pain in the vulva and vagina may occur. This requires reducing or not using condoms.
2. Inflammation: condoms generally with weak alkaline methyl silicone oil, and this substance is not easy to decompose, long-term use may destroy the vaginal flora environment, easy to breed bacteria, making women infected with a variety of gynecological inflammation, such as vaginitis, cervicitis, pelvic inflammatory disease.
3. Lubricant, talcum powder and other effects on the cervix and vagina such as cervical injury: long-term use of condoms, especially substandard, poor quality condoms, sexual intercourse may cause cervical injury, a series of cervical inflammation.
The role of condoms in preventing sexually transmitted diseases has received global attention in recent years. When using condoms, it is recommended to use them in a reasonable and standardized way, and it is best to use condoms of guaranteed quality and clean them up after sex.
If the use of condoms causes discomfort, women can use other forms of contraception, such as birth control rings or contraceptive pills.