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I was in the army for nearly 12 years joining as a girl soldier when I was 16. The one thing I learned from my time was the importance of good hygine and like katiebug said staying hydrated.
In the enviroment I was working, sanitation could often be quite poor, running water could be rare so baby wipes tended to be the way to go. Plus if you're working in tight spaces with men it was hard for a lot of women to find the oppurtunity to clean themselves properly and do stuff like just change their knickers regularly.
Guys are quite lucky they don't need the same standards of hygine as women and a lot of girls don't realise this. I knew a lot of women that hop in and out of the shower without actually taking the trouble to clean themselves proberly and then wondered why they had problems.
Anyway when I was about 25 I started getting UTI's almost constantly. So it forced me to change jobs in the army and later it was a factor in my leaving. I think my main point is that if you educate yourself at a young age you can really cut back on any problems.
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