Home Remedy for Bacterial Vaginosis

by Maggie Hopkins

Many women have discovered that a good home remedy for bacterial vaginosis can be significantly more effective than antibiotics or expensive over the counter treatments. There is often the perception that although natural home cures for all manner of conditions are “healthier” and “better for you”, that they are less effective and somehow a second rate choice.

Where bacterial vaginosis is concerned, this is certainly not the case-indeed the opposite is true.

The only way to successfully treat bacterial vaginosis to ensure that you are protected against recurrences is by using natural treatments.

To understand why this is, you need to understand a little about bacterial vaginosis. This is a condition which is not “caught” like a virus or bacterial infection, but is caused by bacterial imbalance and overgrowth of bad bacteria. The overgrowth can be caused by various reasons-from something as simple as a change in washing detergent, exhaustion, over-washing or a change in sexual partner. Very often there is no obvious cause at all.

If you take antibiotics, this can certainly help kill off the bad bacteria, but what they have not done is eliminated the cause-that will still be there. In addition, antibiotics work by killing off all bacteria and this includes the beneficial bacteria which live in the vagina which naturally keep control and kill off “bad” bacteria. So although you might get rid of the symptoms within a few days, as you have killed off all the good bacteria, there is no defense against any bad bacteria which will inevitably enter the vagina.

This is why over 70% of women who take antibiotics for bacterial vaginosis have a repeat infection within a few short weeks

The best way to tackle and permanently eliminate this condition is to use a home remedy for bacterial vaginosis which will work to strengthen the good bacteria so that whatever your personal trigger factors are, your own immune system will be able to stop it dead in its tracks, before the bad bacteria even has a chance to overgrow.

There are a home remedies which you can try right away which will help relieve the symptoms.

* Pour a couple of cups of cider vinegar into a warm bath and soak for around 10 minutes

* Try soaking a tampon in live natural yogurt and insert into the vagina, leaving it in place for an hour

* Tea tree oil pessaries have proved useful to treat bacterial vaginosis

* It can be beneficial to take garlic tablets as the natural antiseptic in garlic will help kill off bad bacteria

These self help steps will help.

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