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Did you know that your vaginal microbiota consists of hundreds of bacteria that help maintain a healthy vaginal environment1?

Every woman’s vaginal flora (a.k.a. vaginal microbiota) is unique, and unlike the other microbiota (such as the gut), the vaginal microbiota is balanced when its diversity is low.2 It’s composition changes throughout a woman’s life1 and also plays an important role in pregnancy.3

Maintain good intimate health habits can help you to keep your vaginal microbiota balanced4, as a disturbed composition (vaginal dysbiosis) has been associated with several diseases like bacterial vaginosis1 and vaginal yeast infection (vaginal candidiasis)6 for example.

Read more to know the different things you can do to keep your vaginal microbiota balanced.

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Sources

1 Greenbaum S, Greenbaum G, Moran-Gilad J, Weintraub AY. Ecological dynamics of the vaginal microbiome in relation to health and disease. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2019 Apr;220(4):324-335.

2 Gupta S, Kakkar V, Bhushan I. Crosstalk between Vaginal Microbiome and Female Health: A review. Microb Pathog. 2019;136:103696.

3 Gupta P, Singh MP, Goyal K. Diversity of Vaginal Microbiome in Pregnancy: Deciphering the Obscurity. Front Public Health. 2020 Jul 24;8:326.

4 Chen Y, Bruning E, Rubino J, Eder SE. Role of female intimate hygiene in vulvovaginal health: Global hygiene practices and product usage. Womens Health (Lond). 2017;13(3):58-67.

5 Riepl M. Compounding to Prevent and Treat Dysbiosis of the Human Vaginal Microbiome. Int J Pharm Compd. 2018 Nov-Dec;22(6):456-465.