Background: Vaginal discharge is a common symptom of genital infection in woman. Identifying its source can be challenging as large number of pathogens cause several other infections may coexist. Aim: To find out the possible causes of vaginal infection in sexually active woman. Material and methods: One hundred sexually active females in the age group of 20 complaints of vaginal discharge thor...

Sexuality, which plays an essential and significant role in human life, is provided through healthy sexual organs. Therefore, any disease the genital area, including vaginitis, can interfere with these tendencies thus affect quality of life individual. The researchers, therefore, conducted a study aimed at comparing satisfaction pregnant women vaginal candidiasis. This cross-sectional to evalua...

Purpose: The aim of the present study was to formulate and evaluate miconazole nitrate containing thermosensitive bioadhesive gel for vaginal drug delivery to achieve a better therapeutic efficacy and patient compliance in the treatment for vaginal candidiasis. Method: Here miconazole nitrate (1%) was formulated as a vaginal gel using thermosensitive polymer, pluronic F127 (20%) along with bioa...

Women often develop vaginal infections that are caused primarily by organisms of the genus Candida. The current treatments of vaginal candidiasis usually involve azole-based antifungals, though fungal resistance to these compounds has become prevalent. Therefore, much attention has been given to molecules with antifungal properties from natural sources, such as curcumin (CUR). However, CUR has ...

The present investigation was designed to formulate a natural tablet for the treatment of vaginal candidiasis in order to eliminate side effects that are caused by existing antifungal drugs. Curcumin has promising antifungal activity in comparison with the existing azole antifungal drugs. Bioadhesive curcumin vaginal tablets were prepared by direct compression with different ratios of biadhesiv...

Sima Rasti ; Mohammad Ali Asadi ; Afsaneh Taghriri ; Mitra Behrashi ; Gholamabbas Mousavie 3 1Department of Parasitology and Mycology, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, IR Iran 2Department of Obstetric and Gynecology, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, IR Iran 3Department of Statistic, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, IR Iran *Corresponding author: Mohamma...