Dr Norman Swan
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26,995 appearances
288 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2006
last heard 15 Sep
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You do not want to get a tissue infection inside your nose.
Not a pleasant thing and sometimes difficult to treat.
Down below.
That's it.
As we would see.
So this is men as well as women are doing this?
Yeah.
So there have been studies of, for example, sexually transmissible infections and pubic hair removal.
finding that maybe there is an increased rate of STIs in pubic hair removal, but they're not well-conducted studies and have not adjusted for sexual activity.
So it's hard to know whether because you remove pubic hair
You're more likely to have sexual intercourse, for example, and therefore be more exposed to sexual transmissive infections.
And it's hard to see how, really, how removal of pubic hair is going to increase your risk of gonorrhea and so on.
It's going to come from sexual activity.
So you'd have to take that with, I hate to say, a pinch of depilatory.
Yeah, and we're going to have a link to the American Academy of Dermatology.
It's got a very good set of instructions in terms of hair removal and how to make it safer.
And then in terms of health consequences, we know that hair and hair follicles
are places where bugs live, bacteria, fungi, viruses, and so on.
In other words, your external microbiome.
And the question is whether removing hair, just plucking it, or shaving it, or indeed laser therapy, is changing the microbiome in a good way or a bad way.
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