Bacterial Vaginosis - The Right Approach

Bacterial vaginosis is a fairly common bacterial infection. As the name might suggest it affects females only. The condition entails a terrible itch and rash-like reddness as well as frequent discharge with a very unpleasant odor.

As always, for prevention of Vaginosis there is nothing better than a balanced and healthy life style:

Avoid fatty and oily foods, eat healthy and avoid excessive drinking and smoking. Safe and protected sex is an additional measure to keep the risk of an occurance of bacterial vaginosis low.

Basic cleanliness and hygiene should have a high priority, underwear  should be kept clean and washed often. Some women are very sensitive when it comes to bathing supplies like soaps.

It might be a good idea to look into natural, unscented bathing supplies to support the self-regulatory, natural environment of the vagina. Soaps and lotions  with artificial ingredients might indeed smell great, but they can very often destroy the natural balance in the feminine parts, thus making way for infections in the first place.

It is shocking to see many wrong treatments of this condition:

The main reason is that bacterial vaginosis shows VERY similar symptoms similar to an “average” yeast infection - however, as the name suggests, Vaginosis is a bacterial infection while yeast infection is not! A treatment which works for either of them will NOT work for the other, and vice versa.

How can it be explained that there are still some doctors prescribing the same treatments and medicamentation for BV as they do for Candida?

Since it is a bacterial infection antiobiotics might work - however, it is important to know that is easily possible to enter a dangerous cycle of “temporary relief only” . This means you will only always get rid of the symptoms, but never get to the root cause of bacterial vaginosis! This can hardly be seen as a perfect solution. The other, even worse problem is that some women might have a reaction to Antibiotics. There is a reason why antibiotics need a prescription.

I will always prefer a natural way and a complete cure as opposed to a “treatment” which only leads from one temporary relief to the other or which might even introduce further, more serious problems.

An infection (by definition!) is very often caused by low immunity. A low body immunity in turn is most often caused by a wrong and unhealthy life style. Here again, the snake bites itself in the tail,and we start the endless and sad cycle anew: treatment, but no cure.

A bacterial vaginosis treatment must address those very important factors. It should be holistic,  natural and it should go hand in hand with a healthy life style as well. Only then we can talk about a real cure.

We reviewed treatments for BV and you can see our  A Cure for Bacterial Vaginosis to see which one i personally found best in all those aspects.

Yours,

Chrysten Priaulx