ABSTRACT
A woman’s life can be quite miserable with urinary tract infection, vaginal infection and some form of infl ammatory bowel disease. These problems can be present right from when she is in the teens. Abnormal vaginal bacterial fl ora is an important cause of obstetric and gynecological adverse sequelae (4). The microbes that inhabit the vagina play an important role in the maintenance of vaginal health and prevention of infection. Studies have shown absence or depletion of lactobacillus in vagina to be one of the main reasons for bacterial vaginosis and this results in signifi cantly increased risk of HIV, gonnorrhoea, chlamydia and Herpes simplex viral infection (35).
