You can't get BV from things like toilet seats, sheets, towels, or swimming pools. The usual treatment for BV is antibiotics (medicine that fights bacteria). These come as pills you swallow or gels or ...

The usual treatment for BV is antibiotics (medicine that fights bacteria). These come as pills you swallow or gels or creams you put in your vagina. Because BV can come back, your doctor may need to ...

Women who develop bacterial vaginosis (BV) often later acquire chlamydia, a common and potentially serious sexually ...

Women who develop bacterial vaginosis (BV) often later acquire chlamydia, a common and potentially serious sexually transmitted bacterial infection. Now, researchers at Albert Einstein College of ...

Make sure you use all of the medicine the way your doctor says, even if your symptoms go away sooner. And don’t have sex until you finish your treatment and your infection clears up. If you have BV ...