VAGINOPLASTY - Vaginal Tightening Surgery

This is also known as vaginal tightening and is the name given to the cosmetic procedure which tones and tightens up loose vaginal muscles often caused by childbirth.


This procedure also enhances sexual pleasure and gratification.

What is ‘vaginoplasty’?
This is a cosmetic procedure which tightens the muscles of the vagina which have become slack as a result of childbirth. It can also enhance lovemaking for women hence why it is often known as a ‘designer vagina’.

In the case of childbirth the muscles of the vagina loosen and stretch during delivery. These ease the passage of the baby. However, the problem arises when these expanded muscles stay weak and loose which can cause long term problems. These include stress incontinence and sexual dysfunction.

Vaginoplasty can be performed with other procedures such as a labiaplasty (surgery conducted on the inner or outer lips of the vagina).

Who should consider vaginoplasty (vaginal tightening surgery)?
If you are a woman in good health and with reasonable expectations then vaginoplasty is an option.

There are several reasons for choosing vaginoplasty which are:

Stress incontinence

This can happen as a result of childbirth. The vaginal muscles can become slack during delivery and this can cause an involuntary loss of urine. You may notice this if you sneeze, laugh or cough.

Improving the appearance of female sex organs

This procedure can tighten the vaginal muscles which can enhance the amount of pleasure given, and received by the woman during lovemaking. This will also improve your sex life as a whole.

Boost confidence and self-esteem

Having loose vaginal muscles can be both distressing and embarrassing. This can affect self-worth to such an extent that the patient feels unable to enjoy a normal lifestyle which can lead to depression.

Other reasons include repairing damage to the vagina and a prolapsed pelvis.

The vagina can be torn which can be felt as a pulling or rubbing sensation when wearing tight fitting clothes.

A prolapsed pelvis is where the muscles at the base of the pelvis are weakened as a result of childbirth which then causes pressure on the vagina. The result of this is pain and discomfort.

If you are considering this procedure than visit our Cosmetic Surgery:General FAQs section for further advice on what to do next or read through the specialist procedure FAQs. These all have information on how to find a surgeon, the costs, the surgery itself and what happens afterwards.

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Venereal disease Female Genital herpes - forever and ever

Once one gets infected with herpes virus, it retains all his life in the body. Particular caution should begin to form when skin blisters and soak them. Then the virus is easily passed.

Each year 20 million new infections
Herpes knows almost everyone. His brother, genital herpes, is less known - but widespread. Each year worldwide become infected over 20 million people newly infected with herpes genitalis. All were infected over 500 million people around the world, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared in the summer of 2008. In Germany, experts estimate, about 15 percent of the population carry the virus, which is more than 12 million people.

Most people become infected during sex
Genital herpes is caused by the herpes simplex virus (HSV). It comes in two variants: type 2 (HSV-2) mainly affects the penis, vagina, anus and buttocks, while type 1 (HSV-1) usually causes cold sores. But with poor hygiene, viruses of herpes sores on the mouth can be transmitted to the genital area. This done by smear infection, says the president of the Professional Association of Gynaecologists, Christian Albring?. For example, by unwashed hands, or oral intercourse "Usually transfers genital herpes, however, in vaginal sex.

Typical: small groups of painful blisters
It takes several days and even weeks to get genital herpes is noticeable. In some people the infection is so weak that they do not register and pass the virus unknowingly. Often an infection begins, however, so that the skin tingles and itches. Then form painful blisters filled with yellowish liquid, and are often the little groups. Finally, pop the bubbles up and become ulcers. In addition, the lymph nodes swell in the area and painful. If someone gets genital herpes for the first time, he has often fever and feels ill overall. To heal the ulcers, it may take 2-3 weeks.

Virus remains in the body for life
Even if no bubbles are to be seen, the thing is not over: Those who suffer from genital herpes is to live long virus carriers. After the healing of sores, the virus moves back into the nodes of the supplying nerves. From here you can always migrate to the skin and lead to more relapses. This is often caused by stress, fever, other diseases or during menstruation. In the first years after infection, the symptoms usually occur very frequently and strongly. By the time you answer it. Cure is not genital herpes. The skin sores can be treated well but with ointments and tablets. This prevents the virus from replicating itself.

Annoying but mostly harmless
Normally, genital herpes is not very dangerous. But in people with impaired immune defenses, the virus can affect the central nervous system. The same applies to babies because their immune systems are still developing. In pregnant women with acute genital herpes infection, therefore, most doctors do a c-section so that the child is not contagious at birth.

Beware if the sores wet
If the bubbles blossom and form ulcers, the risk of infection is particularly high. But even in symptom-free period, an infected passed the virus. Serve with small lesions of the skin or mucous membrane. Condoms can protect against infection. Hundred percent sure they are not, especially since they do not cover the whole genital area. Therefore advise physicians to dispense with a herpes outbreak on sex.

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Vaginal dryness

As a woman maintains her private region is best


It itches, it burns and hurts sex - vaginal dryness can enforce a woman pretty. With proper treatment and care can often solve the problem, however.

Vaginal dryness


Increased risk of infection
A dry vagina is a topic to talk about the women affected not so much. This affects not only the evil the well-being and sexual pleasure for both partners. Their natural moisture and protects the vagina from diseases such as fungal and other infections. It therefore makes sense in several ways to ensure a healthy moisture in the vagina.

Step number one is, together with the doctor to find out why the vagina does not have enough moisture, and then initiate the proper treatment and care. Vaginal dryness often occurs due to a fungal infection.

Lactic acid products are the first choice for a fungal infection
When women complain to a fungal infection of vaginal dryness, which is a consequence of inflammation. Because the fungus schilfert the top layer of skin into the vagina. Of these, the skin recovers only slowly, since it needs to build cell layer by cell layer again. "It usually takes three to five weeks," says LIFE LINE expert Dr. Anja Oppelt. To help the body to the woman products that may contain lactic acid (such as a Milchsäurekur), insert into her vagina. This sour to the milieu in the vagina - as it is on a healthy woman by nature of the case. Thus, the vaginal flora is regenerated and stabilized held fungi and bacteria in check and prevent infection.

When lactic acid products customers currently have a choice between gel, tablets and suppositories. What form is most effective, must try a woman, says Dr. Oppenheimer: ". Biocompatibility can be different" One advantage of lactic acid gel is that it allows condoms intact. Lactic acid suppositories, however, can attack rubber. Moreover, here the additional moisturizing aspect is observed, which is especially important for a vaginal dryness. Suppositories and vaginal tablets cause any additional moisture.

Vaginal Dryness

If there is a lactic acid preparation alone can not manage to regenerate the lining of the vagina, "a woman can also use for some time an estrogen preparation," advises LIFE LINE expert Oppelt.'s The doctor recommends, in particular, women who suffer repeatedly from vaginal fungus because the mucosa is mistreated accordingly.

Estrogen preparations help in the menopause and after childbirth
In women after menopause, the hormonal change is mostly to blame when a vaginal dryness occurs. As the estrogen level drops, the properties of the skin change in the vagina. It is poor circulation, may lose elasticity and regress with time. In addition, the glands produce less mucus in the cervix. The result is a so-called Scheidenatrophie.

Even in women who are not yet in menopause, can lead to lower estrogen levels be the cause of vaginal dryness. often complained about women who have long taken a contraceptive pill, said Dr. Oppenheimer. The pills contained estrogen ethinyl estradiol may result in the low dose used to be that mature in the vagina too little estrogen in place and the mucosa thinner and less.

Nursing women also suffered often in a dry vagina, said Dr. Oppenheimer. Because after a birth, estrogen levels fall off sharply and remains low as long as the woman breastfeeding her child. This can also be felt in the vagina.

To treat vaginal dryness, resulting from low estrogen levels, there are medicines that contain a low dose estrogen. As women they apply locally acting hormones instead of the entire body. They do not represent hormone therapy, gynecologists and keep potential concern, therefore, unfounded. are estrogen preparations for the vagina it as a cream, suppository and ovule.

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