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I had been smelling a fishy smell from my vagina and so i started taking a probiotic and now i don't smell it anymore. was it bacterial vaginosis?

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Maybe: But that is only a guess. Bacterial vaginosis is an overgrowth rather than a true infection and probiotics can help by introducing more normal bacteria to counteract the less pleasant BV ones.

Answered 8/15/2018

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