Female Care

Vaginal dryness is typically a topic that is taboo around the water cooler. No one wants to talk about their vagina or how wet or dry it is. However, vaginal dryness effects millions of women. It is a very common problem that can be fairly uncomfortable. If you are wondering why you were once adequately lubricated down below, and no longer are, there can be several reasons. Vaginal dryness can be caused by a number of different factors.

Medications that Cause Vaginal Dryness

There are millions of people who suffer from vaginal dryness. Many of these people have symptoms because of certain medications they take. Certain over-the-counter medications such as cold and allergy medicines work to dry out mucous membranes. This may help your cold symptoms, but they also dry out the mucous membranes of your vagina. Also, antidepressant medications have been known to cause vaginal dryness as well.

Vaginal Dryness Due to Lower Estrogen Levels

Decreased estrogen levels is a major cause of vaginal dryness. Most people know that menopause decreases estrogen levels, but there are so many other times during a women’s life when estrogen is lower. Breast feeding, childbirth, cancer treatments, cigarette smoking, and immune disorders can all adversely effect the levels of a woman’s estrogen.

Vaginal Dryness From Douching

Douching was very popular 20 years ago. It was thought to cleanse the vagina thoroughly after a menstrual period. Research has shown that douching actually is no better, and is even worse than letting the vagina clean itself naturally. The chemicals in the douche effect the natural balance of the vagina. Vaginitis is caused by douching and can also cause vaginal dryness.

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Herbs have magical powers to treat the various diseases that we suffer from, in our regular life. It might be unbelievable, but also has a cure for the most common problem that all women suffer from in their life time. Yes, you guessed it right, it is menopause.

Until a few years back, women would suffer from the various symptoms that are related to menopause with not many medications to help them overcome the problems. But, the various studies conducted on the herbs finally gave a solution, a cure for the various symptoms and hence gave a ray of hope to all women suffering from some or the other type of problems caused due to menopause.
According to the studies, there are various natural herbs for menopause that are found to have certain effect on the estrogen levels in our body. With the actions of these herbs, the severity of the various symptoms of menopause is reduced to some extent. Thus they are categorized into two categories based on their chemical structure of the chemicals that are present in the herbs which act against the symptoms of menopause. These categories are:

• Estrogenic herbs: The herbs that are included under this category contain chemical structures of estrogen and thus are included in this category.
• Non-estrogenic herbs: The simple herbs that do not contain the chemical structure of estrogen are included under this category.

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