Bacterial vaginosis: treatment, clinical symptoms and causes of the development of the disease

Bacterial vaginosis is actually a fairly common disease. At least once in a lifetime it occurs in about half of the beautiful ladies. Most often it does not lead to the development of any kind of complications, but it is quite difficult to complicate life and spoil the mood of a woman vaginal vagina is still capable. The thing is that this ailment has very unpleasant symptoms. It is because of them that treatment should begin as early as possible. Bactorial vaginosis develops when a woman has a qualitative, as well as a quantitative, composition of the habitual microflora of the vagina. Most often this is observed when she has any hormonal changes, stress, the sexual partner has changed or local and / or humoral immunity has decreased . The most favorable for the vagina are lactobacilli. If the bacteroides, gardnerella, mycoplasma hominis or enterococcus begin to prevail, then bacterial vaginosis develops . Treatment of it will involve the restoration of the usual composition of the microflora of the vagina.

In many cases, this disease may even occur without any symptoms. In other situations, bacterial vaginosis manifests itself as the main triad of symptoms: characteristic discharge, burning, and itching. Allocations are the main and most unpleasant symptom. Especially unpleasant smell, much like a spoiled fish and making it clear that a woman developed bacterial vaginosis. Treatment is best to begin with the first symptoms. As for the other two characteristic signs of bacterial vaginosis - itching and burning, they are usually not very pronounced. At the same time, their intensity can increase during sexual intercourse, menstruation or ordinary urination. If there is a suspicion of vaginosis, treatment and diagnosis begin with taking a smear from the vagina (from its mucous membrane). Carry out the test by sowing. This allows you to determine which bacteria prevailed in the smear, and therefore, in the vagina. In addition, a so-called amide test is a very common method for diagnosing bacterial vaginosis. It consists in determining the presence of isonitrile in the vagina. It is worth noting that it is this substance that is responsible for the unpleasant odor of secretions. Another method of diagnosis, used to detect this pathology, is pH-metry. The thing is that in normal vaginal acid is observed, and in bacterial vaginosis - alkaline.

For this disease, treatment does not involve any emergency or supercomplex measures. Despite this, the majority of women who have vaginosis is diagnosed, the treatment is attempted as soon as possible. This is due to the previously mentioned unpleasant symptoms, to be more precise, an ineradicable odor of secretions. The basis of medicamentous effects on this pathology is the use of antibacterial agents (selected depending on the results of sowing the smear), as well as eubiotics (lactobacterin and others).