{"id":1989,"date":"2020-09-28T12:10:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T10:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgenikolopoulos.gr\/?p=1989"},"modified":"2020-10-11T22:16:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T20:16:31","slug":"21-reasons-to-see-a-gynecologist-before-closing-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgenikolopoulos.gr\/en\/21-reasons-to-see-a-gynecologist-before-closing-21\/","title":{"rendered":"21 reasons to see a gynecologist before closing 21"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most young women do not need to have a Pap test until they are 21 years old. However, there are still many other reasons to visit a gynecologist before you reach this age.<\/p>\n

HEALTH<\/p>\n

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  1. To maintain a healthy body weight and to feel good with your body.<\/li>\n
  2. To develop habits that will provide you with healthy bones.<\/li>\n
  3. To find out if you have urinary tract infection and, if you do, get treatment.<\/li>\n
  4. To treat unusual secretions, odors or itching in the vaginal area.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    PERIOD<\/p>\n

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    1. To see if your period is normal.<\/li>\n
    2. To relieve if your period is accompanied by pain.<\/li>\n
    3. To find out why your period is “heavy” (with high blood loss).<\/li>\n
    4. To find out why your periods are long (or short) apart or because you have blood clots between your periods.<\/li>\n
    5. To control the symptoms of premenstrual syndrome.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      RELATIONSHIPS AND SEXUALITY<\/p>\n

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      1. To have safe and healthy relationships.<\/li>\n
      2. To recognize when a relationship is threatening or harmful.<\/li>\n
      3. To talk about issues related to homosexuality, bisexuality, transgender (LGBT).<\/li>\n
      4. To properly weigh your decision before making love for the first time.<\/li>\n
      5. To find out about safe sex.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        PREGNANCY<\/p>\n

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        1. To find out about contraception so that you become pregnant only when you decide that the time is right.<\/li>\n
        2. To prepare in advance for a safe and healthy pregnancy.<\/li>\n
        3. To have a pregnancy test.<\/li>\n
        4. To know what your options are if you become pregnant.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES<\/p>\n

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          1. To protect against sexually transmitted diseases and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).<\/li>\n
          2. To make the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine.<\/li>\n
          3. To be screened for sexually transmitted diseases and HIV, if you are sexually active.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

            Most young women do not need to have a Pap test until they are 21 years old. However, there are still many other reasons to visit a gynecologist before you reach this age. HEALTH To maintain a healthy body weight and to feel good with your body. To develop habits that will provide you with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gynecology","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgenikolopoulos.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgenikolopoulos.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgenikolopoulos.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgenikolopoulos.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgenikolopoulos.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1989"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/georgenikolopoulos.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1992,"href":"https:\/\/georgenikolopoulos.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions\/1992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgenikolopoulos.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgenikolopoulos.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgenikolopoulos.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgenikolopoulos.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}