Sunday, May 13, 2012

The number of bacteria in the vagina Can Go Down Up

The number of bacteria in a woman's pubic turns from time to time is never stable. The numbers fluctuate sometimes more, sometimes less depending on the acidity (pH) in the vagina.
Certain bacteria in the vagina does have good benefits for the health of your reproductive organs. However, as the development time, the bacteria can menigkat numbers and could lead to the growth of microbes in the vagina.
Many people think that the good bacteria in the vagina to protect against infection, especially bacteria of the genus Lactillus which produces lactic acid and maintain the pH of the vagina.
But few know that a specific bacterial community may have increased the population from time to time which can be dangerous.
Certain types of bacteria that population increases will cause the vaginal microbiome, but conditions are not the same in all women. There are some women who have vaginal bacterial populations are stable and exist in abundance.
"Changes in bacterial populations tend to coincide with the period of menstruation and sexual activity. Period of menstruation and sexual activity has been associated with changes in bacterial populations, but these factors are not always consistent in each of the women, other factors may be influential," said Jacques Ravel, PhD , of the University of Idaho as reported from medpagetoday, Monday (05/14/2012).
Ravel and several other co-investigators who use genomics technology to investigate the RNA sequence of vaginal bacteria and bacterial populations to see whether they might change or remain stable.
Research conducted on 32 healthy women with vaginal swab done more than 16 weeks of daily activities and make notes. Most women have five types of bacteria in the vagina and communities dominated by species of Lactobacillus crispatus, or iners gasseri.
"These factors need to be subject of further research in order to match better treatment strategies for women with bacterial vaginosis. This study not only can improve diagnostic accuracy, but also can offer a way to predict susceptibility and risk of infection," says Ravel.
More individualized treatment could be useful to prevent the development of vaginal bacteria, although antibiotics are also many works on some people.
"As long as the pH is balanced, there will be changes in the vaginal bacterial population so that the possible symptoms of minor infections," says Ravel.

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