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Written by Paul B. at 10 Sep 2002 06:38:40: Tiny amount of betamethasone affect on women's gential area
As an answer to: betamethasone affect on women's gential area written by Sai at 10 Sep 2002 00:22:04:
> Hi, if I plan to use betamethasone cream to treat phimosis,
Suggest the ointment form.
> will I still be able to have intercourse during my 1 month of treatment time?
Only if you have a willing partner.
> Would the cream spread to the women's gential area if I don't use a condom
If you can feel any greasiness after you put the ointment on, you've used too much. You need only a very minute amount, and you put it only on the tight part of the skin whilst you are pulling the foreskin back to make the tight part come to the outside. Therefore there will be no ointment on the skin to be transferred anyway.
Note: the ointment form (and perhaps less so the cream form) contains a petroleum jelly base which will cause condoms to rot very quickly. It is therefore all the more important that 1} you do not apply enough to be felt on the skin after application, 2} you do not put it on in the 12 hours before using a condom 3} you use a lubricant as well, a little inside and mostly outside the condom; and 4} you determine that the woman in question is using contraception.
> and what would be the effect of the cream on her?
Negligible in the amount transferred - except in the particularly rare situation that she might be allergic to it.
> Would it make her loose or give her any side effects?
It will help you with the tight foreskin. It will not be sufficiently dramatic as to work in days, and it will only help when you actually do the stretching exercises. From this you can see that it certainly would not make her loose at all.