Ladies, did you know that you have bacteria living in your colon? In your mouth? That you have skin and Vagina bacteria? It’s true.
The fact is that it is estimated that the bacteria outnumber our number of regular human cells. Sounds like the bacteria are taking over the world! They’ll bury us if we don’t keep our eyes open…
Seriously though, your vagina bacteria are essential for the health of your vagina, which means your health. If the vaginal bacteria are lacking Lactobacillus strains, guess what happens? You end up with bacterial vaginosis. Just like that, no questions asked, even if you did nothing else.
If the vagina bacteria are full of live Lactobacillus strains, your vagina is healthy and most likely has no bad odor of any kind. You see, Lactobacillus produces hydrogen peroxide, which kills other harmful bacteria in the intestinal tract.
When you go to the doctor, it’s a medical technologist that looks at the swab taken by the doctor to determine if you have bacterial vaginosis. She’s looking for vaginal bacteria. To do this, she will calculate the number of colonies of Lactobacillus, searching for anywhere from 10 colonies to 300 in a small part of the culture. She’ll then multiply that number by 10 and her final number is called colony-forming units per ml vaginal secretion.
In one research study performed at the Center of Clinical Laboratory in Beijing Friendship Hospital in China, researchers physically counted the number of different types of vaginal bacteria. And they found what was to be expected: women with higher counts of Lactobacillus were healthy compared to those with low counts.
There are different types of Lactobacillus: crispatus, gasseri, jensenii, iners, acidophilus, and bulgaricus. And did you know that in your vagina, you could also find Staphylococcus, Streptococcus and even E. coli? There are at least 10 different types of pathogenic bacteria found in these counts and the reason why they don’t cause any disease is that the Lactobacillus keep them at bay just by that hydrogen peroxide that is released.
So that’s enough on vagina bacteria for today! Take care of your vagina! Feed it what it wants - plenty of Lactobacillus bacteria.
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