Sitz Bath Recipe For Cytolytic VaginosisThis sitz bath recipe is good for women suffering from cytolytic vaginosis. It is NOT suitable for yeast infection or bv. You'll need a plastic sitz bath. "What is a sitz bath" you ask? It's a bowl that sits over the toilet and is the easiest and most comfortable way to submerge your "nether regions". Some of these plastic sitz baths have overflow features so that you're not flooding out the bathroom and some have the ability to continuously add warm water to the bath so it doesn't get cold. The overflow of the water goes into the toilet. You can buy a sitz bath at most drugstores or if you want to be more discreet, buy an Invacare Sitz Bath You can also make do with a wide mouth plastic basin. The idea is to be able to sit in it so that your genital area is covered by the water but the rest of your body and feet and legs are not in the water. If you're very short of cash and a petite size you can make do with a plastic bucket and simply squat over it so that the genital area is submerged. (That technique would never work for me! I'll stick with the Invacare version!) You also need some baking soda (sodium bicarbonate). Just the sort that you have in the kitchen cupboard or can buy at any supermarket. Note: it is baking SODA - not baking powder. Fill your sitz bath or container with about two inches of water (any temperature) and mix in 2-4 tablespoons of baking soda. Sit in the sitz bath or tub for 15 minutes twice a day. Do this two or three times in the first week.1 Then do it once or twice a week to keep the cytolytic vaginosis away.1 I'm not a doctor but I wonder if once you're into maintenance mode whether simply chucking a handful of it into the water to make a baking soda bath once a week might be a simple way of keeping yourself free. Try to spread the lips of the vulva and ensure that plenty of this water flows in. Cytolytic vaginosis is caused when there are too many lactobacilli present in the vagina. (The usual problem is not enough!) The lactobacilli produce lactic acid and cv is the result of too many lactobacilli producing too much lactic acid. The vagina, which normally has a pH between 3.8 and 4.2, becomes overly acid. Baking soda is an alkali so that the sitz bath recipe raises the pH level of the vagina and makes it not quite such a desirable residence for those lactobacilli. You don't want to eliminate the lactobacilli, just reduce their numbers. It is the number of them present that is causing the problem. If you totally eliminate them then you'd end up with a different set of symptoms! This is such a simple and inexpensive treatment to try and Professor Hutti noted that "clinicians have had success in treating this condition with relatively immediate and positive results." Don't go overboard on this treatment and start using the sitz bath recipe every day, week after week. If you eliminate too many of the lactobacilli you could push yourself right over into bacterial vaginosis. Just follow Professor Hutti's advice and do let me know how you find the treatment. There isn't that much information about on cytolytic vaginosis so it is always helpful to other women to share results if you find the sitz bath recipe useful. 1. Hutti MH, Hoffman C. Pearls for Practice. Cytolytic Vaginosis: An overlooked cause of cyclic vaginal itching and burning. Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, volume 12 issue 2, page 55-58 February 2000. TOP of Sitz Bath Recipe
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