In what situations can vaginal suppositories be used on your own?

Vaginitis is an unspeakable pain for many women. Women may be attacked by vaginitis at different times or for different reasons in their lives. For some patients whose conditions are not very serious, the doctor will prescribe a prescription, teach them the method, and then let them take the medicine themselves at home. However, when using self-insertions for vaginitis, you should pay attention to the timing, depth, and cleanliness of the insertions in order to achieve the desired effect.

In what cases can vaginal suppositories be used on your own?

Have you ever felt that you had gynecological inflammation but were too embarrassed to go to the hospital to see a doctor, so you went to the drugstore to buy suppositories? If not, you are still a smart person! Gynecological diseases have their own particularities and cannot be solved by finding some medicine like a cold.

Because many gynecological inflammations have similar symptoms, it is difficult to prescribe the right medicine if you do not have professional knowledge and only use medicine based on your feelings. Therefore, even if you take medicine on your own, you must consult a doctor first.

There is only one situation in which you can use vaginal suppositories on your own, and that is when you have recurring vaginal diseases.

The premise is:

1. You have had this type of inflammation before and have been diagnosed by a doctor;

2. The symptoms of the recurrence are the same as the first one;

3 Based on the first doctor's prescription.

For example, if you have suffered from candidal vaginitis before, and it was diagnosed by a doctor and cured after taking the prescribed medication, but it has relapsed now, you can take the medication on your own according to the doctor's prescription.

Correct steps for vaginal suppositories

(1) Clean your hands.

(2) Pull out the piston of the applicator as far as possible and place the vaginal tablet into the applicator.

(3) Lie on your back in bed with your knees bent to make it easier to insert the applicator.

(4) Carefully insert the applicator deep into the vagina, press the piston, and push the tablet into the vagina.

(5) After use, pull the piston out of the dispenser, clean it with warm water and soap, then rinse it and use dry ice to keep it clean.

(6) This treatment is best performed before bedtime.

(7) Symptoms such as itching, burning and discharge may disappear quickly, but it is extremely important to continue using the tablets until the entire course of treatment is completed.

(8) Even if menstruation begins, medication should still be continued without interruption.

Inflammatory drugs should also pay attention to acidity and alkalinity

Watching the advertisements on TV, it seems that gynecological inflammation can be easily solved by just applying and washing it yourself. The actual situation is not like this. If you rely solely on personal judgment and buy medicine without authorization, it is likely to backfire. Because inflammatory medications also have an "acidity and alkalinity" problem. For example, Trichomonas vaginitis needs to be treated with acidic drugs, but what you bought may be alkaline drugs for treating other types of gynecological inflammation. The result is predictable. Not only will it fail to cure the disease, it may have the opposite effect.

Three major misunderstandings in treating gynecological inflammation

Many gynecological diseases with serious consequences, such as uterine fibroids and cervical cancer, originate from gynecological inflammation. However, at least 80% of adult women have misunderstandings about the treatment of gynecological inflammation, and these misunderstandings directly affect their bodies and even their lives.

Myth 1: Excessive use of antibiotics

The direct consequence of excessive use of antibiotics is that the bacteria develop drug resistance, which destroys the restrictive relationship between vaginal flora, leading to vigorous fungal growth, continuous extension of treatment cycles, and continuous increase in drug dosages, and the disease cannot be effectively treated.

Misunderstanding 2: Blindly use lotion

Vaginitis is the most common gynecological disease, and more than 40% of patients are caused by improper cleaning methods. The female vagina is an acidic environment with a self-cleaning function. Long-term use of washing liquid to clean the lower body will kill the vaginal bacteria that are beneficial to the body, reduce local resistance, and increase the chance of infection.

Misunderstanding 3: Not following the course of treatment

When most women perform self-medication, they often rely on their subjective feelings: once the symptoms have improved and the leucorrhea has returned to normal, they believe that the disease is cured, and they stop taking the medicine immediately. Gynecological experts point out that there is a relatively strict concept of treatment course for gynecological inflammation. It is necessary to stop when the condition improves. If the course of treatment is not followed, and there is no "remaining courage to pursue the enemy", the infection will mostly rebound again.