10 FAQs About Leukorrhea
What's the Treatment for Infectious Leukorrhea?
Yeast can be persistent and require more than one course of antifungal treatment. Antibiotics are used to manage trichomoniasis and bacterial vaginosis and are available in both pill and cream form.
Gonorrhea and chlamydia are managed with antibiotics. If the infection has progressed to the pelvis causing pelvic inflammatory disease, urgent antibiotic treatment is necessary to prevent infertility, pelvic abscesses and more serious abdominal infections. It's important to treat the sexual partner or partners to avoid reinfection.1’Vaginal Discharge.’ Cleveland Clinic. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/symptoms/4719-vaginal-discharge,2Spence D; Melville C. ’Vaginal discharge.’ British Medical Journal. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2099568
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