You may need some antibiotic cream/tablets. “If the ingrown hair is very large and very, very painful with red sore skin around or, in some rare cases, you can start to feel unwell with high fever – pop some paracetamol and ibuprofen and call your GP. Ingrown hairs can be treated at home with DIY methods by exfoliating with a hot flannel or a hot compress to ease the hair out. The white stuff is sebum and oil that your skin usually makes, but is now trapped underneath the skin.”ħ ways to get rid of ingrown hairs for good How are they treated? “Just because it may have a white head, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s infected or full of pus. “ Ingrown hairs are where the hair starts to grow back on itself so that it curls back down into the skin rather than coming out of the surface they often form a ‘head’ like a spot does, and you can often see a hair inside,” says Dr. This is one we probably all can (and do) recognise, as ingrown hairs on your vagina or genital area are totally normal. Read on for your guide to the lumps and bumps that can develop your genital area, and which require a trip to see the doctor. So how do you tell what lumps, spots and ingrown hairs are serious and what isn’t? We spoke to London-based gynaecologist Dr Anita Mitra, aka Gynae Geek, to get to grips with the various things that can grow in your lady garden. It may appear to be a sinister-looking new arrival to your body, however these things are usually fairly harmless and are almost always easy to treat. But a lot of the time there’s no need to jump straight into panic mode. “ That wasn’t there yesterday”, you think.
Finding a new lump or bump on your body can be worrying – especially when it’s around your genital area or vagina.
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