""Partner therapy offers us another avenue for hopefully preventing recurrence and helping people feel better faster," Christopher Zahn, chief of clinical practice and health equity and quality at ACOG, said in a statement. BV is a common condition affecting nearly 30 percent of women worldwide. Still, it's potentially stigmatizing and embarrassing, with symptoms including itching, burning, a concerning fishy smell, and vaginal discharge that can be green or gray."
"This imbalance can be especially difficult to correct; of the women who suffer with BV, up to 66 percent will end up having the condition recur after treatment. BV symptoms are "incredibly uncomfortable and disrupt people's daily lives," Zahn said, and that discomfort "becomes compounded by frustration when this condition comes back repeatedly." Studies in recent years have started to expose the reasons behind recurrence. Though again, BV is an imbalance, it has the profile of a sexually transmitted infection."
The American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists updated clinical guidance recommending partner therapy for recurring bacterial vaginosis, advising simultaneous treatment of male partners with an oral antibiotic and an antibiotic cream. Bacterial vaginosis affects nearly 30 percent of women worldwide and causes itching, burning, malodorous discharge, and gray or green vaginal discharge. BV is a dysbiosis of vaginal bacterial communities rather than a classic infection. Up to 66 percent of treated women experience recurrence. Recent studies link recurrence to sexual exposure, showing that penile microbial communities can harbor BV-associated bacteria and predict partner risk, supporting partner-directed treatment to reduce relapse.
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