![]() It is clear and watery and often becomes thicker like an egg white and stretchy. Right after your period, discharge increases in amount, in preparation for ovulation. ![]() It changes throughout the month and throughout our lives. Women cycle like the moon and so does our vaginal discharge. If you’re experiencing any white vaginal discharge, please read on. If that doesn’t improve your symptoms after a few days, you need to see your gynecologist. You can try a little shea butter, hydrocortisone, and clotrimazole from your local pharmacy two times a day. Wash the area with mild, unscented natural soap and water, and dry well. If you have persistent vulvar burning, irritation, or itching that is occupying your mind much of the day, this is not normal. Everyone experiences this from time to time, and it is normal. Occasional symptoms can come and go with tight-fitting clothing, intercourse, long bike rides, use of panty liners, and skin sensitivities to detergents, scented products, etc. Does this make sense? Can I get a “hallelujah?” What a relief! 200 years we have been blaming the vagina and nobody questioned it, until now. External odor = If you are human, it is normal. It is the same odor. Different location, yet very close to the vagina. The reaction that happens with BV (inside the vagina) is the same reaction that happens on the outside of our bodies, around the perianal area where anaerobic bacteria from our GI tract consume bodily fluids of a higher pH (semen, blood, sweat, urine), and the odor compounds released are identical. It is significantly worse shortly after intercourse. Due to the higher pH, cells break down in the vagina, which creates a transudate (watery discharge) that is consumed by the bacteria that then release fishy smelling compounds. Anaerobic bacteria create an imbalance in the vagina and the pH goes up. True vaginal odor most commonly occurs with a condition called bacterial vaginosis, or BV. Why all the confusion? Get ready…this is genius! Outdated “feminine hygiene” products on the market today have done a great job of convincing women that the vagina is the reason for any odor between our legs. I, for one, am relieved by this explanation. Day-to-day odor is an external chemical reaction that needs a long lasting external solution. Bodily fluids + external bacteria = external odor. The vulva is the gateway to the vagina and in close proximity to the perianal region (yep, around the anus) where bacteria from our GI tract stand ready to consume bodily fluids like sweat (glands around the vulva and perianal area), semen (leaking from the vagina), blood (from menses) and urine (leaky bladders). The vulva includes the mons, clitoral hood, clitoris, labia majora, labia minora, and perineum. Everything you can see on your body is the vulva. It is the tubular space from the opening of the vagina to the cervix or bottom of the uterus. The vagina is an internal organ and often confused as having an external presence. Here are some key points to understand, so we never blame the vagina again for day-to-day odor: 1. We are going to change the way you think about body odor and how to control it. ![]() Unfortunately, the tired “conga line” of hygiene products on the market today all rush to judgment and assume vaginas are the source of the odor we notice every time we take our pants down! It’s not. It’s not unique to underarms, so why should your deodorant be?īacteria + Bodily Fluids = Odor. Body odor is caused by a chemical reaction between bacteria and bodily fluids. It is a reservoir for certain fluids like semen, blood and cervical discharge that find their way to our external skin.Ģ. Those things can take a pounding.” – Betty Whiteġ. “Why do people say, ‘grow some balls?’ Balls are weak and sensitive.
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