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Brazilian hair removal increases the risk of viral infection

19/03/2013

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LONDON - In a study published in the "British Medical Journal" this week, the researchers sought to relate the molluscum contagiosum virus infections, known as wart water, the increased incidence of hair removal in patients who visited a clinic for treatment of skin Nice, France, between January 2011 and March 2012. This virus is relatively common in children and in people with compromised immune systems due to illness or drug use, but can also be sexually transmitted, which has been increasing in recent years. 

30 cases infected with the virus during the study period, six were women and the average age in the whole group was 29.5 years. Signs of infection spread in four cases by the abdomen and the thigh in a patient. In ten cases there was an associated skin problems, including warts, folliculitis, cysts and scars. 

Among the 30 patients, the majority (93%) had done waxing of pubic hair, most with blade (70%). Of the remainder, there was much tweezers (13%) and wax for hair removal (10%). 

As the virus infection can spread easily when the skin itches, to remove the hair may facilitate transmission, according to the authors, who wrote that "the reasons for hair removal remain unclear but may be related to pornography on the Internet, the increase
of sexual feeling, the unconscious desire to simulate a visual child "- completely ignoring the option of hygiene in tropical countries such as Brazil.


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