Ladies, your vagina is precious! It helps you bear children and brings you pleasure during sexual intercourse.
Your vagina is instrumental in cleansing your body of toxins each month through menstruation.
Some terms that you should know about are vaginosis and vaginitis.
What's the difference between vaginosis and vaginitis? How are the symptoms different in vaginosis and vaginitis? Do doctors and health practitioners know the difference between vaginosis and vaginitis? Vaginosis Vs.
Vaginitis: The Definitions - Vaginosis is a condition where the normal flora in the vagina does not contain the usual number of Lactobacillus bacteria.
- Vaginitis is an inflammation of the vagina.
Whenever there's an inflammation in the body, there's irritation.
Infections can cause vaginitis.
Vaginosis Vs.
Vaginitis: The Symptoms - In vaginosis, there is a discharge with a fishy odor and the woman may also have pain and itching of the vagina, especially during intercourse.
- In vaginitis, there may be a discharge and pain during intercourse.
In the case of vaginitis, there's usually itching and a discharge.
Vaginosis Vs.
Vaginitis: The Results Both vaginosis and vaginitis can destroy a woman's health and her life.
For example, an HIV infection causing vaginitis can destroy her immune system.
A human pappilloma infection causing vaginitis can eventually cause cervical cancer.
A herpes infection causing vaginitis can cause problems in an unborn child.
And vaginosis when there's not enough of the right bacteria there in the vagina is enough to increase the risk of spontaneous miscarriage up to 10 times! It can also lead to sterility and tubal pregnancies which threaten a woman's life.
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Vaginitis: The Treatment The treatment for vaginitis is usually antibiotics to kill the infectious microorganism that is causing the problem of vaginitis.
If the infectious microbe causing the vaginitis is a virus, then it's impossible to treat it with an antibiotic.
There are more potent drugs (and ones that have more harmful side effects) that are given for those with HIV infections that cause vaginitis.
In the case of vaginosis, the treatment that is medically appropriate is antibiotics like Flagyl.
However, studies show that there is a high rate of recurrence of vaginosis when they are used.
And when failure isn't an option, what do you do? The answer is go to natural cures.
Look for natural remedies that will take care of the problem.
Let's face it; 80% of the world uses natural remedies to cure their illnesses.
Why are we lagging behind? Vaginosis vs.
Vaginitis.
You really don't want either one of them.