April 7th, 2009 — bacterial vaginosis Tagged Bacterial Vaginosis Natural Cures
If you have been wondering how to get rid of vaginal odor, you will be pleased to learn that there are a number of simple steps you can take which can help eradicate the problem. Although bad vaginal odor is often caused by a condition called bacterial vaginosis, which needs more comprehensive treatments, sometimes it is just a temporary condition which can be easily resolved.
If you do have bacterial vaginosis, you will be experiencing symptoms which include itching, burning and soreness around the vaginal area together with a gray or white watery discharge which has a very offensive smell. If this is the case, the self-help methods below will still be useful but there are additional tips for bv sufferers. Bacterial vaginosis natural cures are still the best way of eradicating the condition rather than resorting to antibiotics which are rarely effective for this condition.
To get rid of vaginal odor, ensure you do not overwash the vaginal area as this can actual worsen vaginal odor by stripping out the natural lubricants which help maintain vaginal health and balance. You should wash no more than twice daily and only using non-perfumed soaps.
It is also important to ensure that you are changing your sanitary protection regularly as this can be a common source of bad odor. This applies whether the bleeding is light or heavy. Also, ensure that you never leave a tampon in place at the end of your period as this can harbor bacteria.
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March 26th, 2009 — bacterial vaginosis Tagged bacterial vaginosis treatment
If you’re like me, you’ve been prescribed the antibiotic metronidazole, also known ad Flagyll, as a treatment for bacterial vaginosis. If you’re lucky, it worked for you the first time. But when it didn’t work, and you had to take it over and over again, your doctor insisted that it was because you were doing something wrong because otherwise the drug would work.
Which, I have to say, is insulting. Hello, I know you have to take all of the medication, even if the symptoms start to go away. Not to mention the fact that the symptoms haven’t gone away; the itching and smell? Yup, still there.
So, while reading up on possible treatments for bacterial vaginosis, I came across something quite disturbing. Metronidazole, the medication my doctor told me was the preferred treatment for bacterial vaginosis, was banned for use in animals in the EU because it had been proven to cause cancer.
Excuse me? So I can still take it, and thousands of doctors prescribe multiple courses of treatments to women like me with chronic bacterial vaginosis every day, but they can’t give it to animals? Because it might give them cancer? There’s something wrong with that, right there.
So I started to dig deeper into this, didn’t want to get freaked out about this without cause, hoping that maybe the article was misquoted. It turns out that metronidazole has been shown to cause both changes in genetic material and cause cancer in animals. While they haven’t found that it causes cancer in people yet, that might be because they haven’t done enough trials.
There are lots of drugs with harmful side affects, and yes, some can put you at a higher risk for certain kinds of cancer, but its an accepted and known risk. And if the metronidazole actually worked in a single dose the way my doctor insists it should, I wouldn’t have a problem taking it for a treatment of my bacterial vaginosis. In this case the risks aren’t worth it; why expose yourself to something linked with cancer multiple times, when it isn’t doing what it’s supposed to.
So I continued my efforts to find an alternative treatment for bacterial vaginosis, and I think that I finally found something that works. And not a cancer-causing drug in sight. Check out my “bacterial vaginosis relief” review, and I hope it can help you as much as it helped me.
March 25th, 2009 — Uncategorized Tagged bacterial vaginosis cure, bacterial vaginosis relief
With a dearth of information available, and confusion about the information that is available, its no wonder that its so hard to find a real cure for bacterial vaginosis. If youre lucky, youre one of the people that the antibiotics, which doctors most often prescribe, work. A lot of women find that the antibiotics dont work, or only work for a little while, when the bacterial vaginosis returns; thats not a cure.
Its for these women (who, I have to admit I was one) that there needs to be more information out there about alternative and natural ways to cure bacterial vaginosis. To top it all off, my doctor took the attitude that I was doing something to prevent the drugs from working properly. This was not what I needed to hear; no one, especially someone already embarrassed about the problem needs to hear that its somehow their fault.
Doctors need to sit up and take notice‚women who are suffering from bacterial vaginosis want to be cured. Working, exercising, being intimate with your spouse, everything is affected by the itching and the smell. If we could get a lasting cure for bacterial vaginosis, wed be able to get back to our lives.
Though there is no conclusive proof, most people agree that bacterial vaginosis is caused by a change in the vaginal environment that allows bad bacteria to overgrow. There are too many things that can cause this to happen to point to one definitive cause. For myself, I didnt really care exactly what caused it, as long as I could find some way to cure it!
And, after a lot of research and some messy trial-and-error (you really dont want to know) I finally came upon a system that worked. It combined common sense with alternative therapies to make a solution that really worked. Best of all, I had finally found a lasting cure for my bacterial vaginosis. If you want to know what worked for me, you can read my review of “Bacterial Vaginosis Relief“.
