Sexual Helalth Zone

BODY ODOR

Many people suffer body odor and don't even realize it. Many people think body odor is only caused by poor hygiene, but that's not the case as it has different factors to it.

Main causes of body odor:

- Bacteria + sweat: Sweat itself doesn’t smell. When bacteria on your skin break down proteins in sweat from apocrine glands, it creates odor. These glands are mostly in armpits, groin, and feet.

- Apocrine vs eccrine sweat: Eccrine sweat is mostly water and salt, odorless. Apocrine sweat is thicker and contains fats/proteins that bacteria love. Stress, puberty, and hormones ramp up apocrine sweat.

- Diet: Foods like garlic, onions, curry, red meat, and alcohol release sulfur compounds through pores. Cruciferous veggies can also change body odor in some people.

- Medical conditions: Diabetes can cause a fruity smell, kidney or liver disease can cause ammonia or bleach-like odor, and hyperhidrosis means excessive sweating that feeds more bacteria. Trimethylaminuria causes a fishy odor.

- Hormones: Puberty, menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause shift hormone levels and increase sweat and odor.

- Poor hygiene: Infrequent showering or not washing clothes lets bacteria build up.

- Clothing/fabric: Synthetic fabrics trap sweat and bacteria against skin. Cotton and breathable fabrics help more.

By Marivon Agbor, a Sexual Health Educator ✅

WHY MEN DlE DURING S€X

Every now and then, we hear of men dleing while on active service. And many think the men wey just unfortunate or maybe were kllled.

This is what you need to know 👇

ASHERMAN SYNDROME

Many women often experience menstrual changes and often time it's said to be "hormonal issues." But many gyns fail to look at Asherman syndrome.

Asherman syndrome = scar tissue/adhesions inside the uterus that make the front and back walls stick together. Usually happens after trauma to the uterine lining, most often from a D&C after miscarriage or postpartum.

Main Signs & Symptoms

- Period changes*: This is the #1 red flag
- *Hypomenorrhea*: Super light periods lasting 1 day or just spotting

- *Amenorrhea*: Periods stop completely, even though you’re not pregnant or in menopause

- *Normal flow with severe pain*: Periods look normal but with intense cramping because blood can’t get out due to scarring at the cervix

- *Infertility*: Can’t get pregnant because scar tissue prevents implantation

- *Recurrent miscarriage*: Pregnancy happens but can’t be sustained due to poor lining
- *Pelvic pain/cramps*: Especially around the time you’d expect a period, even if bleeding is minimal

- *Pregnancy
y complications*: If you do conceive, higher risk of placenta previa, placenta accreta, preterm birth, or severe bleeding

What Causes it
About 90% of cases follow a D&C, usually after miscarriage, abortion, or retained placenta. Other causes: C-section, infection like pelvic TB, endometrial ablation, or uterine surgery.

Key thing to know
You can have Asherman’s with normal hormone levels. So blood tests for estrogen, FSH, etc will look fine. The problem is mechanical - scar tissue blocking the cavity.

*Who to see*: A reproductive endocrinologist or OB-GYN specializing in uterine surgery. Diagnosis is confirmed by hysteroscopy - it’s the gold standard

If you are looking for a child, and echography keeps telling you nothing is wrong, please tell your doctor to do you a Hysteroscopy.

Take your séxual/reproductive health serious.

Talking as a Sexual health educator ✅

Happy Labour Day my amazing followers.

In Cameroon, a number of 35,000 new cases of HIV have been discovered with more victims being women between 15-49 years. It's said that 7 in every 10 women is HIV+.

I am here to raise awareness onthe need for a single sèx partner. Have more than 1 partner is putting yourself at risk that's if you're -.

Having more than a partner is no more a hype, it's a sulcidal act. Parents, I encourage to sęx educate your kids.

HIV isn't a dead sentence, but we can prevent it's wide preding.

Remember sèx is not the only transmittable route but it's 90% gotten from it.
Abstinence is the solution and if you can't, then use protection and limit sèx partners.

Talking as a Sëxual Health Educator

MALE INFERTILITY

In our African society, women are always blamed for childlessness in marriage, yet many fail to understand that men too could be at the fault. Infertility is not just a woman's thing as both parties can be at risk.

Male infertility is when a man has trouble contributing to pregnancy because of issues with his s***m, reproductive organs, or hormones.

Here’s how it breaks down:

Main causes
- *S***m production problems*: Low s***m count, poor motility (they don’t swim well), or abnormal shape. This is the most common issue.
- *Blockages*: Something preventing s***m from getting out, like past infections, surgery, or congenital absence of the vas deferens.
- *Hormone issues*: Low testosterone or problems with FSH/LH from the pituitary gland affecting s***m production.
- *Lifestyle & environment*: Heavy alcohol, smoking, anabolic steroids, obesity, heat exposure to te**es, certain meds, and toxins like pesticides.
- *Genetic conditions*: Klinefelter syndrome, Y-chromosome microdeletions, cystic fibrosis gene mutations.
- *Varicocele*: Enlarged veins in the sc***um that raise temperature and impair s***m. About 15% of all men have one, and it’s the most common correctable cause.

By
Marivon Agbor, Sexual Health Specialist ✅

CS and Sexual Health.

Many people see CS as and common procedure to birth a child, but what they don't know is, it goes beyond that.
CS doesn't just affects one's mental health, it affects sexual health too👇

Sexual Health Matters

I saw this somewhere and all I can say is, these people don't know what they're doing. It takes a lot emotional and psychological preparedness to handle an SS.

It's soo financially draining is you don't support. Sometimes, I tell myself that parents who care their SS child/children are the best parents inthe world.

95% of parents with sicklers didn't plan for it, they only realized after they baby have been born. And now, here comes a question to the remaining 5%.

Why plan to have kids who will come suffer? Why Marrying someone knowning the risk of birthing sicklers?
Why stay in a relationship for long without knowing your genotypes?

Could these people be acting out of love, ignorance or faith?

By Marivon Agbor, a Sëxual Health Specialist ✅

MENSTRUAL HEALTH DISEASE
There are many disease that could affect one's menstrual health and amongst which is 👇
PCOS (Polycystic O***y Syndrome) is a hormonal disorder that directly affects menstrual health. It’s not just “irregular periods”—it’s a condition where the ovaries produce higher-than-normal levels of androgens (male-type hormones), which can interfere with follicle development and ovulation.

Key points:
- Irregular or absent periods: Because ovulation often doesn’t happen regularly, cycles can be longer than 35 days, skip months, or stop entirely.
- Ovarian follicles: Ultrasound may show many small follicles that never mature—hence “polycystic,” though they’re not true cysts.
- Symptoms tied to hormones: acne, excess facial/body hair, scalp thinning, weight changes, and insulin resistance often accompany the cycle issues.
- Why it matters: Chronic anovulation raises risks for endometrial hyperplasia, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular strain if unmanaged.

Treatment will depends on symptoms

Early care helps protect fertility and long-term health.

Talking as a Sëxual Health Specialist ✅

Menstrual health still remains a major Sëxual Health issue in Cameroon and Africa.