What can I use as home remedy for vaginitis? Bad vaginal odour?

Dear Asker!

Prevention
Good hygiene may prevent some types of vaginitis from recurring and may relieve some symptoms:

Avoid baths, hot tubs and whirlpool spas. Rinse soap from your outer genital area after a shower, and dry the area well to prevent irritation. Don't use scented or harsh soaps, such as those with deodorant or antibacterial action.
Avoid irritants. These include scented tampons and pads.
Wipe from front to back after using the toilet. Doing so avoids spreading fecal bacteria to your vagina.
Other things that may help prevent vaginitis include:

Don't douche. Your vagina doesn't require cleansing other than normal bathing. Repetitive douching disrupts the normal organisms that live in the vagina and can actually increase your risk of vaginal infection. Douching won't clear up a vaginal infection.
Use a male latex condom. This helps avoid infections spread by sexual contact.
Wear cotton underwear and pantyhose with a cotton crotch. Don't wear underwear to bed. Yeast thrives in moist environments.
Eat yogurt that contains active lactobacillus cultures. This sometimes may help reduce recurrent vaginal yeast infections. Lactobacillus is a type of "good" bacteria that's common in your vagina

Self-care
You'll need prescription medication to treat trichomoniasis, bacterial vaginosis and atrophic vaginitis. If you know you have a yeast infection, you may go ahead with treatment on your own, taking these steps:
Use an over-the-counter medication specifically for yeast infections. Options include one-day, three-day or seven-day courses of cream or vaginal suppositories. The active ingredient in these products is clotrimazole (Gyne-Lotrimin), miconazole (Monistat) or tioconazole (Vagistat). Some products also come with an external cream to apply to the labia and opening of the vagina. Follow package directions and complete the entire course of treatment even if you're feeling better right away.
Apply a cold compress, such as a washcloth, to the labial area to ease discomfort until the antifungal medication takes full effect.

Treatment
The type of medication used for vaginitis treatment depends on which type you have:

Bacterial vaginosis.
For this type of vaginitis, your doctor may prescribe metronidazole (Flagyl, MetroGel) or clindamycin (Cleocin) as tablets or vaginal gels or creams.
Yeast infections.
Yeast infections usually are treated with an antifungal cream or suppository, such as miconazole (Monistat) and clotrimazole (Gyne-Lotrimin). Yeast infections may also be treated with an oral antifungal medication, such as fluconazole (Diflucan). The advantages of over-the-counter treatment for a yeast infection are convenience, cost and not having to wait to see your doctor. The catch is you may be treating something other than a yeast infection. It's possible to mistake a yeast infection for other types of vaginitis or other conditions that need different treatment. Using the wrong medicine may delay a proper diagnosis and the most appropriate treatment, and can lead to complications.

Trichomoniasis.
Your doctor may prescribe metronidazole (Flagyl) tablets.
Atrophic vaginitis. Estrogen, in the form of vaginal creams, tablets or rings, can effectively treat atrophic vaginitis. This treatment is available by prescription from your doctor.
Noninfectious vaginitis. To treat this type of vaginitis, you need to pinpoint the source of the irritation and avoid it. Possible sources include new soap, laundry detergent, sanitary napkins or tampons.

Hope that may help you!
Good luck!

Try taking a bath once in a while

Go the GP. Stop using bath products cos could be the cause. My doctor said what ever you put in there you should be ok about putting it in your mouth i.e would you put bubblebath in your mouth - no. The sprays that they sell and marketing and rubbish as well.

regular bath will help.

feminine wipes for odor, vagintis probably need to see a doc...or if its a yeast get some monistat

It sounds like yeast. Get some mycostatin. Eat lots of yogurt to counter attack the yeast.

vanilla esscence?...

OMG douche with warm water and vinegar. Call your gyno.
Wow why would you put that question out there?

Forget home remedy ! go to the pharmacist
And over bathing can make it worse

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I knew a lady with this problem, but it went away after she realised that she was a lesbian - why?

She had a woman in twice a week.

eat better foods. wash very well with vagisil wash or some type like it. use a powder after wards. you could try some vitamins or herbs of some type. you might actually have an infection and not know it. and the only cure is a certain antibiotic, see your gyno, she'll need to run a test.

1.) Make sure you don't have an infection.
2.) DON'T stick things up there to "clean it."

Vaginas have a natural "flow" and anything that goes in, eventually "comes out." Vaginas have a mucus lining that protects against infection, so when you douche, not only do you get rid of any bacteria that might cause odors, but you also get rid of that mucus lining... and doing that leaves you susceptible to MORE infection. Get it?

Everyone just thinks that "Oh, I must be dirty if I have any odor" But a little bit of odor is nothing strange. However, if you want to be constantly dry, itchy, and generally unhealthy down there... yeah, try the vinegar and water douche.....

Basically, just make sure you wash everywhere else, and don't "scrape out" what you got in there. There's a reason it's there and your natural flow will take care of problems.

bad vaginal odor is symptom of std or vaginitis and requires a trip to the doctor, yeast infection should not have an odor