Lepidoptera -> RE: Vaginal scents. (5/30/2005 11:46:53 PM)
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Also can those who aren't as prompt in bathing after intercourse as they should be get yeast infections. PS nobody say that douching is good for you or any of that crap about douching, because actually it's being proven more and more douching does more disturbance and harm than good. It disrupts the natural ph of the body and can actually distroy good bacteria, and let bad ones like vaginitus grow. Semen does not cause yeast infections. The vagina is self cleansing. You are correct that douching is not a good practice. It does disrupt the natural ph and can destroy the good bacteria. Those good bacteria live on yeast. All of our bodies (both men and women) have some level of yeast all of the time. It is when our levels of good bacteria for one reason or another become too low, thus resulting in an overgrowth of yeast. We commonly refer to this condition as a yeast infection, although it is not an infection in the same sense as one caused by bacteria or viruses. That is why antibiotics will frequently cause a yeast infection rather than kill one. Antibiotics kill bacteria, they do not differentiate between good and bad bacteria, they simply kill them all. So the good die along with the bad, allowing the yeast to overgrow. Semen definitely does alter your vaginal Ph (not saying it's a big enough risk factor for yeast infections to worry about.) This is because the naturally acidic enviroment of the vagina can kill sperm, so sperm comes in its own alkali protection fluid. All I know is that if I let it sit there, I smell fishy for a day or two. I know that means that the pH of my vgaina has been altered enough that the same bacteria that cause the fish smell in fish are causing it in my vagina. Maybe that's not a big enough change for the yeast to get out of hand.
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