Adding to the frustration, BV often recurs after treatment withantibiotics.
When used alone or in conjunction with conventional treatment, these may help treat BV and prevent future flare-ups.
Additionally, yourgutcould be impacting the health of your vagina.
So how do you know if you actually have BV?
Yeast often causes a thick, curd-like discharge, issuperitchy, and can smell a bit yeasty.
And thats where natural home remedies can help.
BV can sometimes be treated with all natural regimes and sometimes it requires an antibiotic, says Gersh.
But often, a combination of the two strategies is most successful.
Experts speculate that supplementing with these beneficial strains helpsproduce antimicrobial compounds4and inhibit pathogens from adhering to the vaginal wall.
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A nutrient-rich diet
In addition to probiotic supplementation, your overall diet is important too.
Additionally, BV and yeast infections can be flashing alerts for food sensitivities and system imbalance, says Trubow.
Fixing the root cause almost inevitably fixes the BV.
Boric acid suppositories are also very well tolerated.
My favorite BV remedy is tea tree oil suppositories used nightly for six nights, says Trubow.
I like them because they work well, are cheap, are naturally derived, and are well-tolerated.
The introduction of bacteria during sex, could disrupt the ecological environment of the vagina and delay recovery.
It has the potential to be overly caustic and kill everything, even the good bacteria, says Trubow.
