A vaginal but potentially dangerous common infection that affects almost every three world should not be considered sexually transmitted, says a new study. A bacterial vaginosis, or BV, ° Estually seen as a female problem, leaving a sexual partner without treatment.
“I also started to have the frequency of a lot. I was going to the doctor and was treated with antibiatics, and -Heylessly came back, ”said Hanae, a woman who participate in the BV clinical trial held in Melbourne, Australia. “It’s like not worth it for me or going to the doctor.”
To half of women with bacterial vaginosis, a infection returns after a completion of a week of antibioticsThe favorite medical treatment for BV, according to a director of the study author, Lenka Vodstrcil, senior researcher at the Melbourne Sexual Health Center at Monash University in Australia.
“A bactelry that causes BV can be located in men, especially in the penis and also the urethra,” Vodstccil said in a printed statement. “This suggests that BV is likely sexually transmitted, and that’s what so many women have a new after treatment. ”
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“Our study has shown that a reinfection of partners is causing many of the BV recurrences that as women experience, and provides evidence that BV is, in fact, an IST [infecção sexualmente transmissível]”Said senior author Catriona Bradshaw in an email. Bradshaw is Melbourne Profesta and Sexual Health Center at Monash University.
A potially dangerous infection
VB symptoms may include itching, pain when urinating, a strange odor and a thin and white vaginal corriopulus. For some women, without, however, a VB is a silent predator, attacking without these revealing symptoms.
If not for treated, one can bacterial vaginosis to award the risk of acquiring HIV as well as sexually infections, according to a World Health Organization.
Women with VB may also deny an infection in the fallopian, ovaries or uterus tubes, called pelvic inflammatory disease, says the WHO site. These infections can lead to later infertility, experts say.
“We see very significant changes in a series of inflammatory markers, inflammatory cells and enzymes and bacterial products that result in damage to the epithelium – the reproductive tract coating,” said Bradshaw.
A vaginosis bacterial, especially dangerous during, an entrance. One may infection lead to premature birth, miscarriage and low birth weight in the baby, according to WHO.
It’s time for a “paradigm change” without treatment
The randomized clinical trial of 164 monogamous couples for conducted in various centers in Austaly. In 81 of the couples, both partners were treated with seven days of oral antibiotics. During this time, the male parcioner also a antibiotic on the penis twice a day. According to the recommended treatment today, only the woman in the gold 83 couples was treated with an oral antibiotic.
Although the study has treated only heterosexual couples, it is “important to note that women in same -sex relationships also transmit BV bacteria with each other during sex, and that these same -sex couples in monogamous relationships have very high rates from Concordania to BV – both have or both do not,” Bradshaw said.
The rehearsal should hard 12 weeks, but the researchers interrupted him early when it was quickly apparent that treating both partners reduced BV occurrence by 60%.
Facing a vaginal infection as common as a sexually transmitted infection would be a “paradigm change” And it would require doctors to encourage a woman’s male partner a shark of liability pela transmission and treatment, according to an editorial published along with the study.
“It will also require a willingness of male partners to commit to taking medications, once notified by her partner that she has bacterial vaginosis and that proven and transmitted sexualness,” wrote Dr. Christina Muzny and Dr. Jack Sobel, who were not involved in the new research.
Men in the NOO study had trouble completing the antibiotic course, with few or no side effects, discovered the study.
“We have already used this medicine in almost 300 men and we had no report that the side effects of the medicine would like them to take it,” Bradshaw said.
Melbourne’s Sexual Health Center has already changed its protocols and is now treating both partners when BV is detected, Bradshaw has accounted for.
For health professionals and couples interested in treating both partners, a research team is developed a website that provides informats detained about the treatment of the male partner.
“Changes in the direct and international processes of processes take time, so feels forced to provide accurate online and download information,” said Bradshaw.
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