Pediatr. praxi. 2009;10(4):220-223

Intimate hygiene of children

MUDr. Zuzana Dostálová Ph.D¹, MUDr. Ingrid Rejdová¹, MUDr. David Starý², MUDr. Matěj Husár², MUDr. Jiří Tůma, CSc, MUDr. Ladislav Plánka, Ph.D²

¹ Gynekologicko-porodnická klinika LF MU a FN Brno

² Klinika dětské chirurgie, ortopedie a traumatologie, FN Brno

Hygienic rules in personal hygiene, dressing and life style have in girls and boys a specific significance. The rules are different in individual

life periods and especially in girls are associated with hormonal changes during life periods. In conjunction with hormonal

changes diseases depend on presence or absence of estrogens. Hygiene of external genital in boys is mostly associated with care

of prepuce sack. During gradual separation of inner layer of foreskin from glans problems with hygiene may transiently be raised

and balanoposthitis may develop. Its consequence may be subsequent cicatricial phimoses that may be also congenital as well as

hydrocela. It is fundamental to instruct parents already in new-borne age about a proper care of external genitals in boys and girls.

The acquisition of correct hygienic rules in childhood and mainly their adherence during the whole life is very important. As a consequence

of a nonadherence the risk of infection spreading frequently to internal genitals increases and it may become a cause of

infertility in males and females.

Keywords: hygiene of girls, hygiene of boys, estrogens, synechia vulvae, conglutinations, phimosis, hydrocele, balanitis.

Published: October 1, 2009  Show citation