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Fishy smell/yucky whitish discharge

How do I get rid of this problem please help!

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Answer #1

Hi, Contrary to popular belief, a yeast infection smells more like baking bread and not fishy.

If your vagina smells fishy, it is almost certain that you have bacterial vaginosis (also known as ‘anaerobic vaginosis’).

The symptoms of bacterial vaginosis are:

A fishy smell in the genital area. You may notice that the smell is worse after sex and during your period.

There is usually a discharge, which is watery and greyish-white in colour.

Bacterial vaginosis does not cause soreness or irritation.

It is an imbalance in the bacteria in the vagina. All women have harmless bacteria in their vaginal passage.

In bacterial vaginosis, some of the bacteria multiply so that more are present than is normal, in other words, bacterial vaginosis is not an infection caught from sexual activity, it is due to bacteria that are normally present in the vagina.

Bacterial vaginosis is very common and can be treated with an antibiotic, metronidazole, from your doctor.

Please dont worry, many women get this at some point in their lives and it is even more common that thrush. (Yeast infection)

Get to your doctor and please dont be embarrassed, he/she would have seen this many, many times.

PS Here is a link with more info on this: http://www.embarrassingproblems.com/bacterialvaginosis.htm

Kiasu

Answer #2

Go to the doctor hun. Maybe a yeast infection?? but nobody will know, except your doc.

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