ClitoralAdhesions

What are "Clitoral Adhesions?"

Clitoral adhesions are similar to labial adhesions, except clitoral adhesionsare located on and around a girl's/woman's clitoris or under her clitoral hood,which covers the clitoris most of the time. Clitoral adhesions limits and/or prevents the clitoral hood tofreely slide across the glans of the clitoris.  You will know if you oryour daughter has clitoral adhesions when youpull or retract on the clitoral hood, the glans of the clitoris moves with theclitoral hood instead ofthe clitoral hood retracting by itself, i.e., the glans of the clitoris moves with yourpulling the clitoral hood. This can be very painful. If you are checking youryoung daughter for clitoral adhesions, be very gentle, as this is a verysensitive area and retracting her clitoral hood can be very painful if there areclitoral adhesions. 

You may notbe able to pull the hood back far enough to expose the entire glans if you oryour daughter has clitoral adhesions.  This could make cleaning the clitoral area difficultif not impossible.

Minorclitoral adhesions may be remedied by without the need for a doctor'sintervention. The clitoral adhesions may be released through pressure on theclitoral hood. Things like bathing, masturbation, bicycle riding, and horsebackriding.  If you do not properly wash your vulva in a manner that placestraction on her hood, or masturbate in a manner that causes you to pull back theclitoral hood, you may not separate any clitoral adhesions that form, or preventthe formation of adhesions in the future.

If you believe you have clitoral or labial adhesions, you may be able toeliminate them by repeatedly pulling on your clitoral hood, in 360 degreedirections (up, down, left, right, rotating in circles as well), or by taking ahot bath.

Clitoraladhesions will not disappear immediately as it took some time for the clitoraladhesions to form.

Women whoexperience pain can ask their partner or doctor to examine their vulva, andseparating the labia, attempt to locate the source of the pain or by using amirror and seeking the source of the pain themselves.  If you experience aclitoral adhesion, either you or your partner can moisten a q-tip with baby oilor vitamin E to clean and loosen the secretions. Remember, the clitoral hoodneeds to "glide" easily over the clitoris. To lubricate the clitoralhood and loosen the secretions underneath, you or your partner may want tomassage the area with a topical cream or baby oil.  This may require youand/or your partner to do this for several days or for several weeks.  Dueto the sensitive nature of the clitoris and clitoral glans, it may be painfulduring the cleaning or massage due to the adhesions.

In the eventyou are unable to treat the symptoms of clitoral adhesions, and you or yourpartner cannot determine the reason for the pain, a doctor may need to beconsulted. If your clitoral hood extends well past the glans, or if yourclitoral hood is thick or closed, the adhesions may be totally concealed, withno visible indications. You should be very explicit in your office visit withthe physician regarding your pain and show him the exact location of the anypain, even retracting your clitoral hood, if necessary for his viewing. 

The clitoral adhesions caused by the accumulated smegma is caused by the twotissues surfaces growing together, due to failure to wash away theseaccumulations. As a result, the body tries to heal and eliminate the source ofthe irritation, thus causing the tissues to fuse as adhesions. These clitoraladhesions, or labial adhesions in the event the labia minora fuse together, mayalso form as a result of the hood laying in constant contact with the glans ofthe clitoris.

Additionally, either you or your partner may want to massage baby oil, vitaminE, or a petroleum based lubricant or antibacterial ointment up under yourclitoral hood and on the glans of the clitoris.  

More about Clitoral Adhesions

 

 

 

Smegma can cause irritatation and pain, and even the adhesion of the clitoral hood to the glans:
1 Accumulated smegma adhering to clitoris and clitoral hood
2 clitoral hood  3 clitoral glans
4 labia minor lips

The clitoris has a "clitoral hood" or foreskin that produces a oily, lubricating fluid called sebum that allows the hood or foreskin of the clitoris to move back and forth over the smooth and healthy glans, or the tip of the clitoris. 

When the vulva is not properly cleaned, wherein the oily, lubricating fluid (sebum) is not washed away regularly, it will accumulate and turn into a cheese-like substance called smegma. This smegma can dry out and irritate and "adhere" to the clitoris. The irritation can be relatively mild or lead to a persistent inflammation and cause severe pain. Over time, the accumulation and build-up of smegma under the clitoral hood, causes the clitoris' foreskin or hood to adhere to the glans of the clitoris and to the body of the clitoris well under the hood. Because of these clitoral adhesions, the foreskin has essentially become stuck, or glued to the clitoris, and can no longer be moved back and forth over the glans of the clitoris.  This causes pain in young girls and makes sexual intercourse in adult women practically impossible, depending on the severity.  Clitoral adhesions may also be responsible for female sexual arousal disorder and female orgasmic disorder in some adult women.

Treatment of Clitoral Adhesions

Clitoral adhesions can usually be avoided by good personal hygiene, i.e. regular careful washing of the vulva, including the glans and foreskin of the clitoris. Young girls should therefore become familiar with their vulvas and be able to locate the clitoris and its foreskin in order to clean them thoroughly. If, for some reason, this should not prove to be sufficient and the irritation persists, a gynecologist may have to be consulted. A careful examination may show that the opening of the foreskin is too narrow and needs to be stretched. The accumulated smegma may have to be removed by a doctor, and the adhesions may have to be released under local anesthesia. Sometimes a hormonal cream may be prescribed by the doctor for the parents to apply to affected area of their daughter's clitoris.

Some adult women may not know they have clitoral adhesions and may explain why sex is painful and why they are not able to fully enjoy sexual intercourse with their husbands. 

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