ZPT and essential oil of verveine to radically abolish malodour in a girl from Djibouti who had undergone to pharaonic circumcision and suffered from a Papouli-Roulides’ vaginal aspergillosis

Abstract

We have studied a new strategy to combat a serious vaginal aspergillosis that is common in girls cases from countries like Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Sudan etc.; in which Type III FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) is practiced as pharaonic circumcision. It is well known that infibulation can cause chronic pain and infection, organ damage, prolonged micturition, urinary incontinence, inability to get pregnant, difficulty giving birth, obstetric fistula, and fatal bleeding. Moreover, the prolonged micturition and the urinary incontinence usually causes an unwanted characteristic odor. This is why females from those regions often have to rely on wearing long burnouses or on using fragrances based on musks, opoponax and myrrh to conceal the malodour.