We may respect the instructions and go to his annual appointment with the gynecologist, we do not necessarily know everything that revolves around his reproductive system. For example, have you ever heard of Bartholin’s glands and their role? Do you know what the gynecologist or the midwife who examines your cervix sees?
We do not always dare to ask the questions necessary to understand everything, and the health professional does not necessarily have the time to answer all our curiosities. Luckily some of them have opened Instagram accounts through which they explain absolutely everything that happens in gynecological consultation, but also in our body. Their content is obviously free and very educational.
Focus on the cervix with Elise, Instagram’s favorite @la.sage.femme
Elise is a midwife and discusses many topics related to gynecology and motherhood on her Instagram account. She just published a book called “My serene and greedy pregnancy, All the advice of a midwife on food”, story that we stop staring at the seafood platter wondering which of the shrimps or oysters we have the right to taste. It also answers questions like:can I color my hair while pregnant?“, she responds to women who are wondering about postpartum contraception, and to caregivers who would be looking for 10 encouraging phrases to say during labor before giving birth. But above all, she shows what we rarely see on the networks (and in real life), as a capped birth (a fetus that is born in its unbroken waters). And she reveals to us (finally!) what the health professional sees who performs an examination of the cervix, at rest, during menstruation, when delivering the baby…
@Jujulagygy: humor, patients and vaginal mycoses
Jujulagygy is an obstetrician-gynecologist and mother of three children. She popularizes her medical knowledge on the entire female apparatus, but also makes some humorous outings. Like when she cooks a chicken curry leek pie and compares it to… a vaginal mycosis !
“The mycosis can get into the vagina and at the level of the vulva (…) the main symptom will be pruritus, that is to say that it itches and we will have losses which are like feta !”, she explains in a cook’s outfit before exposing her pie to the camera.
“THE losses are whiteviscous, lumpy, like curdled milk”, she adds, stirring a yogurt to illustrate. She also compares the “overterm” of a pregnancy to that of expired yogurt, which is not unfit for consumption on the date indicated on the lid, but “the longer we delay eating it, the more chances there are that we will get sick from eating it: well for babies, it’s the same! The longer we go beyond the term of 41 weeks of amenorrhea, the more there is chances are that the baby no longer has enough reserves to endure the end of the pregnancy and the birth.” We also find on his Instagram account many consultation drawings presented in the style of a comic strip.
PCOS, metrorrhagia, Bartholin… everything makes sense with @Mongyneco
Olivier, alias Mon gyneco, is also a gynecologist. It offers popular content for all the scientific data that we hear in the laboratory without understanding what it is: Bartholin’s glands, PCOS, tubal ligation, adenofibromas, metrorrhagia… All with humor, and of course often with his girlfriend. He has thematic videos that come up regularly like his “Question de ma meuf” format. “Honey, I got the pap smear results, I have HPV, did you give me that stuff?” The opportunity for him to recall that the virus affects 80% of men and women under the age of 25, without them knowing it, and without symptoms. And to reassure about the “lesions” sometimes detected, which, without further explanation, give the impression of having cancer. However, taken in time, these pre-cancerous lesions are monitored and can be treated by colposcopy. It also offers “fake news” videos, for example to respond to the rumor that wearing breast prostheses increases the risk of developing breast cancer. Spoiler: No!
Sources: My gynecologist, Jujulagygy, The midwife
