Antibiotics Cause vaginal discharge?

On Jumat, 01 April 2011 / By Fety Kusumanugraha / Reply
 Antibiotics Cause vaginal discharge?

It's intimate hygiene areas and avoid moisture and yet it is still vaginal discharge? Try to check if lately you are taking antibiotics unnecessarily?

Whitish or excessive vaginal discharge and often cause complaints, is a condition that is not foreign to most women. Research conducted in the United States said 3 out of 4 women there have had vaginal discharge.
 
During this vaginal discharge is often associated with unhygienic behavior or fungal infection. Yet according to dr.Stephen Januar Kusmanto, from Bayer Health Care, vaginal discharge it also can be caused by the irrational use of antibiotics.
 
"Today, whatever pain a little bit taking antibiotics, resulting in populations of bacteria in the vaginal area could come off," says Stephen. He further explained, Döderlein lactobacillus bacteria are normally live in the vagina to produce lactic acid so that the fungus can not live. "Because of the advantages of antibiotics, the bacteria go to die so that fungi flourish," he said.
 
Besides antibiotics, other factors that could trigger the emergence of the white is the habit of using the product washing femininity. "She now wants the last abrasive wear intimate feminine wash. And usually the products of its alkaline and can reduce the acidity of the vagina," says Stephen. As already known, the normal acidity of pH should be between 3.5 to 4.5.
 
We recommend that you do not regard lightly vaginal discharge. Be examined by a doctor to find out the cause of vaginal discharge so you can get appropriate treatment. "Only your doctor can determine if vaginal discharge is caused by fungal or bacterial infection," Stephen closed.
Source : Kompas.com
Posted by Fety