Untreated BV?

[sutaseiu.livejournal.com]

I'm just curious, does anything bad happen if you don't treat BV? The only time I've ever had it, I barely knew anything was wrong. So, if it can go away on it's own, that'd be nice. I realize there are home remedies and such, but there wouldn't be much point for me, if I can barely tell I have an infection in the first place.

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BV

[lammie16.livejournal.com]

Any kind of untreated vaginal infection can lead to PID - which can not only cause a great deal of pain, but can cause you to have difficulty conceiving, carrying child, and even make you infertile. Also, you can pass any bacterial, viral, or fungal infection to your partner (although it's less likely for a guy to actually GET the infection because he doesn't have a nice warm, dark, moist environment like we do :) ) who can pass it back to you (if you've gotten treated) or on to others. It only takes a few days of antibiotics or a quick shot in the rump to get rid of it anyway :)

Good luck!

Re: BV

[frolicnaked.livejournal.com]

Any kind of untreated vaginal infection can lead to PID...

From what I'm seeing -- in sources like the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/std/PID/STDFact-PID.htm#howget) and the University of Maryland Medical Center (http://www.umm.edu/ency/article/000888.htm) -- it looks like untreated bacterial infections can lead to PID, not necessarily all vaginal infections. For yeast infections, for example, PID is not mentioned as a possible complication (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/MEDLINEPLUS/ency/article/001511.htm#Complications).