DON'T FORGET: DURING A LIFETIME YOU GET CANCER TENS OF TIMES, WHICH HEALS BY ITSELF TENS OF TIMES + 1 .... BUT UNTIL WHEN?

  Preventive, we recommend a visit to your doctor once every 6 months or lighter, once a year.

SPECIFIC SIMPTOMS

 BREASTS

• spontaneous or touching ache
• any kind of nipple leaks
• any kind of pain in your armpit or chest

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DISEASES: Tumors, Inflammations, Cancer


  INTERNAL GENITAL ORGANS


• intermenstrual or premenstrual pains
• bleeding changes:
    - large menstruation (of 3 to 7 days) , with clots
    - menstruation with pains (dysmenorrheal);
• intermenstrual bleedings (during the 28 days)
    - anarchical bleedings (without any rhythm);
    - discrete bleeding after sexual contact
• vaginal leaks (modify of vaginal secretion)
    - fetid smell
    - abundant
    - green, yellow, red color

DISEASES: Tumors, Fibromas, Inflammations, Cancer, STD (sexual transmitted diseases)


  EXTERNAL GENITAL ORGANS
   
  VULVA

• aches
• skin or genital mucus reddens
• any kind of tumefaction (SKENE and BARTHOLIN glands)
• vaginal leaks with bad smell, that cause itching and burning
• any change in the esthetics of the external organs

DISEASES: Tumors, Inflammations, Cancer


  WHY SHOULD A WOMAN SEE A GYNECOLOGIST

• starting a sexual life means assuming a new responsibility, and it's imperative to have a current gynecologist
• preventing an unwanted pregnancy
• preventing sexual transmitted diseases
• preventing genital cancer
• DON'T FORGET once every 6 months have a cytological Babes-Papanicolaou exam and visit your gynecologist


  WHEN SHOULD A PREGNANT WOMAN SEE AN OBSTETRICIAN

• when she wants to know for sure that she's pregnant and, according to doctor's schedule, to study the evolution of her pregnancy in relation with her own body
• at the beginning of the pregnancy or with the occasion of the first consultation it is recommended to ask for a full series of tests, which will reflect the state of your body
• during the pregnancy there are diseases that can come up and have nothing to do with it or specific diseases which must be treated, to ensure your and the baby's health.
• the consultations have a very strict scheduling, stated by international organizations who are preoccupied with pregnancy evolution, to certify that the baby will be very healthy
• All these are very important for you, but also for your doctor, who has a high responsibility
Your trust = Doctor's responsibility