[Personal hygiene and sex education of young girls]

Sexual education of girls and guidance for their personal hygiene are closely related. In preventive checkups as well as in the course of each and every consultation, the physician has an opportunity to discuss reproductive health issues first with the mother and then with the daughter. As far as the hygiene of the reproductive organs is concerned, the doctor will find that his initiative is necessary and useful. It contributes to the prevention of diseases and simultaneously to sexual education, because it teaches the girls that these organs are as important and worth to be taken care of as every other part of their body. The physician should provide a model in giving advice on a comfortably uninhibited, yet considerate approach to the own body and, more specifically, to reproductive health care.