Bacterial vaginosis which is also known as BV is one of the most common condition in women. This condition is always caused by toxic materials like anaerobion or gardnerella and can brings lots of complications including pelvic inflammatory disease, endometritis, and cervical cancer and so on to women. The cure of this condition is easy and the cure rate is high. Here are some common treatment options of BV for women to choose.
1.General treatment
This treatment is simple and easy to be performed at home every day. Women just need to keep the vulva clean and dry by eating plaint foods, changing underwear every day, wash underwear with hot water separately. This way can be performed along or together with other treatments.
2.Medication
Antibiotics are the most commonly used medication for bacterial vaginosis. Metronidazole is one of the widely accepted effective treatments of bacterial vaginosis. Women need to take this antibiotic twice a day for seven days. Mepartricin is another antibiotic that should be taken around 3 days. Thiamphenicol, a good alternative treatment of Metronidazole and Mepartricin, is effective on killing anaerobion and gardnerella.
Herbal medicine gains its popularity among the world recently, because of its excellent effect on bacterial vaginosis. Herbal medicine differs from the cure principle of antibiotics. It cures diseases by letting the immunity to fight against toxic materials after improving the immunity, so herbal medicine won’t bring problems like drug resistance to patients. Herbal medicine is safe too, for its ingredients are made from plants. Fuyan Pill is one of the most popular bacterial vaginosis in China.
3.mono therapy
BV sufferers can smear the metronidazole suppository around the vagina once a day for seven days after washing the vagina.
4.Combined therapy
If patients have resistance to antibiotics, women can combine the herbal medicine and unguent together. Women can take the Fuyan pill mentioned above two packs a day and smear the unguent at night after having the vagina cleaned. The instruction varies from medications to medications.
All in all, treatments for bacterial vaginosis are various and women should choose one or two or three treatment based on her conditions. The best treatment isn’t the most expensive one, but the most effective and suitable one.
