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What if you put antiseptic like dettol in your bathing water and use the water to wash you vagina, will it be infectous?

Dr. Heidi Fowler, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine Answered Jan. 13, 2014
23 years experience in Psychiatry
I would be concerned. That dettol liquid antiseptic /disinfectant could cause irritation and change vaginal ph.
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