Vaginal Infections (cont.)
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Outlook
If diagnosed and treated correctly, all forms of vaginitis usually respond well to therapy. Your symptoms will clear up and go away. If your symptoms won't go away or the symptoms come back, you must be reevaluated by your health care provider.
- Bacterial vaginosis is associated with pelvic inflammatory disease (PID),
which can cause infertility and tubal (ectopic) pregnancy.
bacterial vaginosis also can cause
problems with pregnancy such as premature delivery and low-birth-weight infants.
Your health care provider will be monitoring your condition closely if you are
pregnant and have had a premature baby before. bacterial vaginosis may also put you at increased
risk of gonorrhea and HIV infection.
- Trichomoniasis is associated with increased risk of transmission of HIV and may cause a woman to deliver a low-birth-weight or premature infant.
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Vaginitis (infection of the vagina) is the most common gynecologic condition encountered in the office.

