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Bacterial Vaginosis ( Bv )

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Bacterial Vaginosis (BV) is a medical condition that is not widely known or understood

about by either the public or the medical field. I state this bluntly because I suffer from

Bacterial Vaginosis, rather I suffer from reoccurring Bacterial Vaginosis. Generally, women who

have an infection caused by BV are prescribed a gel medicine and within 5 days they no longer

have the infection. However, there is a small percentage of woman who have BV reoccur after

treatment, for some the reoccurrence and symptoms only gets worse. BV is “the change from a

Lactobacillus-dominant vaginal microbiota to an anaerobic and facultative bacterial

dominance.” (Bacterial Vaginosis: A critical analysis of current knowledge, 2016) BV“is an

infection caused when too much of certain bacteria change the normal balance of bacteria in

the vagina.” Bacterial vaginosis (BV)(https://www.cdc.gov/std/bv/default.htm) BV acquired its

name from using medical terms, prefixes and suffixes that describe what Bacterial Vaginosis is

within the name. Bacterial Vaginosis is made up of several prefixes and suffixes. Bacterial has

the prefix of Bacteri/o, which means Bacteria or for singular bacterium. The suffix for Bacterial

is -al, which means pertaining to. Broken down Bacterial means the pertaining to bacteria.

Vaginosis has the prefix of Vagin/o, which means Vagina. The suffix for Vaginosis is -osis, which

means an abnormal condition. Vaginosis broken down means an abnormal condition of the

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