Why is the baby's labia sticking to both sides?

Many families regard their newborn babies as "treasures" and are afraid that they may be harmed. However, babies in their early childhood are very prone to diseases because their various functions are not fully developed and their physical fitness is relatively low. Many factors in life can pose threats and impacts to babies in this period. So, what's the matter with the baby's labia sticking to both sides?

First, why is the baby's labia sticking to both sides? This situation is mostly discovered during physical examinations. Some domestic articles show that the incidence rate is at least 12%, and it is very common in children under 6 or 7 years old. New parents often feel worried when they hear this news. Most babies themselves do not have any symptoms. In a very small number of cases, urine refluxes into the vagina and then slowly flows out, which can make them feel uncomfortable. There are almost no cases of labia adhesions severe enough to block the urinary opening and cause urination difficulty. First of all, how can two pieces of inflamed skin stick together? There is a stratum corneum on the skin, which is a layer of lifeless dead cells that protects and isolates the skin tissue. It is impossible for two layers of skin with stratum corneum on top of each other to stick together. The skin must become inflamed, swollen and ulcerated, tissue fluid must ooze out, and the subcutaneous tissue must stick together over time before they will stick together. This process is very painful, and the inflammation is definitely not limited to the two small pieces of skin that are stuck together. Just imagine, babies have to poop and pee every day, and caregivers have to wash their babies' buttocks every day. How could they not notice if their buttocks get inflamed? This is impossible. The perineum is very sensitive. Even if a baby shrinks when encountering severe pain, it is very rare for a baby to develop perineal skin inflammation or even ulceration without making much noise. Normally, the baby stays quiet during bathing and washing the buttocks, without the parents knowing. For example, the skin on the groin may become infected and red if not properly cleaned, but this rarely fails to attract the attention of the caregiver, and it is not difficult to separate them, and it is almost impossible to see them sticking together.

Second, the mainstream view on this phenomenon in our country is that it is caused by chronic infection, and there are also a few babies who are born like this. There is also a saying that vaginal adhesions lead to difficulty in urination and secondary infection. Few people doubt this statement. Medical professionals in my country also recommend early and active treatment of this phenomenon, using various tools to mechanically separate adhesions, or prescribing estrogen-containing ointments for caregivers to apply at home. Mechanical separation may not be smooth. Some operations can be cut with a cotton swab, some will tear the epidermis, and some require surgery. In my country, such minor operations are basically not performed in the operating room under general anesthesia. It is good enough if they can be done under local anesthesia. The baby often cries in pain and then falls asleep (a self-protective regressive behavior of infants when they encounter intense pain or pressure). The ointment usually needs to be applied for several weeks or even a month. If the application is stopped after the labia are separated, the recurrence rate is also quite high.

What's going on with the baby's labia sticking to the sides? In addition, if the cause of this disease is unhygienic, then our parents' generation may not be more hygienic than we are now. Some underdeveloped rural areas cannot obtain effective health care knowledge, and rarely clean the vulva of baby girls carefully inside and out. These children crawl and sit everywhere in their open-crotch pants, urinate and defecate anywhere, and adults often do not carefully clean their excrement and genital secretions. There are almost no community examination and treatment institutions for children, so parents rarely look at their girls' private parts. Our generation has almost never heard of "labia adhesion", and hospitals rarely perform such operations and surgeries. After we grow up and start having sex, almost no one has been prevented from having sexual intercourse because of it. Humans are also a type of mammal. Animals are very "unhygienic" - they are not well clothed, they urinate and defecate anywhere, and they will not take the initiative to clean their genitals. Logically, this makes it easy for their genitals to become inflamed and then form adhesions. We have never heard of any zoo's animals suffering from inflammation and adhesions in their genitals, which affected their mating.