If you are a sufferer from recurrent bacterial vaginosis, you may well have been prescribed antibiotics for bacterial vaginosis.
Like many women, you may well have discovered that they are not as good a solution as you'd perhaps hoped.
There is a good reason for this.
The job of antibiotics is to kill off bacteria-and they generally do this very well.
If all that was involved in getting rid of BV was killing off harmful bacteria, then antibiotics would be a great solution.
Unfortunately though, bacterial overgrowth is only a symptom of BV and killing off bacteria is not enough in itself.
To be successful, treatment for BV needs to be multifaceted and perform the following jobs: * Killing harmful bacteria * Replenishing the vagina with "beneficial" bacteria * Providing strategies for symptomatic relief * Rebalancing the pH levels * Eliminating the common root causes As you might realize on looking at the above jobs which treatment needs to perform, antibiotics for bacterial vaginosis only perform one of these.
Indeed, there are shortcomings in how antibiotics deal with bacteria as they cannot distinguish between good and bad bacteria and as a result, all bacteria is killed off meaning that the body really does have an uphill struggle as it has to rebuild its depleted supplies from scratch.
There is no doubt that to be successful, treatment for recurrent bacterial vaginosis needs to involve far more than just antibiotics.
The other issue with antibiotics is that doctors are becoming increasingly concerned about the rate at which they are prescribed to treat conditions which can be dealt with using alternatives.
Indeed, there is much written about "antibiotic resistance" whereby the body is used to taking antibiotics and they become less and less effective.