Restore the vaginal pH

Vaginal health is considered to be one of the important components of women's overall health. Your vagina is an incredible part of anatomy. It brings pleasure and helps you to create and bring new life to the world. In addition, it has the ability to keep itself perfectly clean, and you have an extraordinary body part. It can clean itself by producing natural fluids and maintaining a healthy pH level to promote the development of good bacteria and prevent bad bacteria from settling. Therefore, having a good pH level is very important for a woman's health. In this article, VKool.com shows you some of the helpful ways on how to restore vaginal pH naturally and effectively. At first, you should learn the definition of pH.

You may have been taught early on to cleanse your vagina daily with strong soap or "feminine hygiene" sprays, but these practices can actually do more harm than good. To have a healthy vagina, clean the area with medium-hot water only to avoid disrupting your natural pH, change menstrual products frequently to prevent bacterial growth, and wipe front to back when using the toilet. You should also adopt some minor lifestyle changes, eat foods that boost your vaginal health (e.g., yogurt, fruit, garlic), and do kegel exercises to keep your vaginal area healthy and strong overall.

What is pH?

PH is a scale expressing acidity and alkalinity. The numbers vary between 0 and 14: a pH level below 7 is considered acidic and a pH level above 7 is alkaline. A healthy pH in the vagina is 3.8 to 4.5. So your vagina is healthier if it has a slightly acidic pH level.

Why is the pH level important for vaginal health?

An acidic vagina is considered the ideal environment for all types of bacteria that help keep the vagina healthy and clean. In addition, harmful bacteria are difficult to survive in a slightly acidic environment. Removing harmful bacteria is important for comfort and general hygiene and helps to prevent certain diseases and infections. PH above 4.5 may make you more vulnerable to vaginitis, irritation of female products, and inflammation of the vaginal tissue, which can be caused by infections such as yeast and bacterial vaginosis (one of the causes the most common abnormal vaginal discharge). Some vaginal infections may also make you more prone to other sexually transmitted infections, including gonorrhea and chlamydia.

Maintaining the vaginal pH level in the normal range is not difficult. The things you can do to maintain the pH balance are to keep the vagina clean, make small dietary changes, practice safe sex, and so on.