Vaginitis

Importance of Seeing a Gynecologist A gynecologist is a medical expert who specializes in reproductive health in women. Whether you are sexually active or not, it is important that you visit your gynecologist regularly. Doing so allows you to better understand your body and find out how to take care of it properly. Seeing a gynecologist also gives you an understanding of your normal body conditions so you can spot abnormal changes in your body such as vaginal infections and get them treated early

Vulvovaginal candidiasis is one of the most prevalent vaginal infections and represents, approximately 40%–50% of all cases of infectious vulvovaginitis [22]. The prevalence of RVVC among childbearing women and its importance as an Egyptian public health problem make an interest to continue research on such cases to add deep knowledge on RVVC and to understand the behavior of its pathogen and its epidemiology within Egyptian patients [23]. RVVC and its control by MBL was studied previously, but unfortunately

What are your three differential diagnoses? 1. Vaginitis including bacterial vaginosis (BV), Candida vulvovaginitis, and trichomonas vaginitis, • BV because of the offensive/adherent discharge but maybe unlikely because BV is characterized by a thin, white/gray/green/ brownish discharge with a pH >4.5 • Candida vulvovaginitis because of the adherent to vaginal side walls with a “cottage cheese-like” discharge and a pH </= 4.5 • Trichomonas vaginitis due to the yellow/green, frothy discharge, and

percentage of 13%.6 When reviewing the risk factors for vaginitis such as lack of health insurance, tobacco use, lack of bachelors degree, Hispanic origin, etc., many of the women suffering from the condition fall under the category of the underserved population as defined above. This means that clinics with the purpose of treating underserved areas and populations must have a heightened awareness of the prevalence and significance of vaginitis and must be interested in staying up to date on the most

There are many diseases and disorders of the female’s vagina, form my research I found two of them that I would like to talk about they are vaginitis and fibroids. Vaginitis is an inflammation of the vagina that can result in discharge, itching and pain. The cause is usually a change in the normal balance of vaginal bacteria or an infection. Vaginitis can also result from reduced estrogen levels after menopause.

gynaecological and obstetric problems (Stephen, 2006 ). Bacterial vaginosis, historically known as ‘nonspecific vaginitis’, has undergone several name changes since mid-1950s. In 1955, when Gardner and Dukes proposed Gardnerella vaginalis (then known as Haemophilis vaginalis) as the etiologic agent of nonspecific vaginitis, the name for non-specific vaginitis was changed to ‘Haemophilis vaginalis vaginitis’ (Gardner and Dukes 1955), with the detection that there is no inflammation present in the

CC Tracey is 40-year-old female here today complaining of vaginitis. HPI The patient tells me she thinks she has bacterial vaginosis. She had this diagnoses in the past and says it seems somewhat similar to her. She has had a little bit of discharge, which has been a [____] color. She has had really no odor associated with this discharge. It has been present for the last couple of days. Yesterday and only yesterday on one occasion did she had some burning after urination. She has not had

term Hemophilus was popular until Greenwood and Pickett summarized all the bacteriologic evidence and showed that it belonged to neither genus but in fact represented a new genus not previously described.” Bacterial vaginosis was named Gardnerella vaginitis. Scientist thought that Gardnerella was the cause of the condition. Gardnerella was named after, Herman L. Gardner, a twentieth-century American bacteriologist. In honor of its principle discoverer Herman L. Gardner, they officially titled the

Vaginitis and superficial uterine lesions were similar to epithelial lesions in other organ systems, with epithelial degeneration, necrosis, and hyperplasia. There were also necrotic foci in the uterine stroma and myometrium. Antigen was detected in vaginal

competences. Questioning sexuality. In general, all GPs stated that they did not have problems with usual care when seeing women with different kinds of vulvovaginal complaints for which the diagnosis was straightforward. Examples were candida vaginitis, lichen sclerosus, atrophy or prolapse. Although questioning sexuality was mentioned by GPs as a way to establish a diagnosis on the moment they felt that diagnostics was uncertain, they experienced a threshold in taking a sexual history. This applied