What Treatment of Bacterial Vaginosis
Bacterial vaginosis can be tricky to treat. While some women respond to the first course of treatments, initial treatment fails for a large number of women. For these women, finding an effective treatment for bacterial vaginosis can be challenging, to say the least.
Standard course of treatment for bacterial vaginosis is a round of antibiotics. There are both oral and vaginal version of the most popular choices of antibiotics. A lower dose of the oral antibiotics is usually recommended to treat pregnant women.
The most common antibiotics prescribed by doctors are Metronidazole, Clindamycin, Ampicillin, Ceftriaxone, and Tetracycline. The last three are not used very commonly; they are reserved for when the first two don’t seem to be able to provide a cure.
Antiobiotics remain the preferred treatment for bacterial vaginosis, even though is doesn’t have the greatest success rate. In some cases the antibiotics work in the short term, but the bacterial vaginosis comes back rapidly. For some women, the antibiotics are completely ineffective, and they do not experience any relief of their symptoms.
Alternative treatments are an option for those women who did not get any relief with the antibiotics. There are a variety of natural, homeopathic and home remedies out there. Just be sure to research any potential cure to weed out any bad or erroneous information out there.
Probiotic supplements have become very popular for treating many problems, including bacterial vaginosis. You can find both vaginal and oral treatments. Just pay careful attention to what kind you get. While lactobacillus acidophilus is great is aiding in digestion, it cannot cross the digestive tract, and is therefore not useful in treating bacterial vaginosis. Look for supplements lactobacillus rhamnosus or lactobacillus reuteri, which both naturally occur in the vagina.
It’s important, before you begin any course of treatment, to go to a doctor and make sure that what you have is, in fact, bacterial vaginosis. Women make the wrong diagnosis over two-thirds of the time when they try to diagnose themselves with bacterial vaginosis. Bacterial vaginosis can often be mistaken for other vaginal infections.
Bacterial vaginosis can be a difficult condition to treat. Don’t be afraid to talk to your doctor about what works for you and what doesn’t. If the antibiotics don’t work for you, start to push for alternative treatments.
Bacterial Vaginosis Relief is possible!
Posted: April 11th, 2009 under Health Treatments.