To prevent vaginitis or colpitis (vaginitis), attention must be paid to reducing individual risk factors.
Behavioral risk factors
- Diet
- Micronutrient deficiency (vital substances) – see Prevention with micronutrients.
- Consumption of stimulants
- Tobacco (smoking)
- Drug use
- Cannabis (hashish and marijuana)
- Sexual intercourse (e.g., changing from vaginal to anal or oral coitus; orogenital contact)
- Excessive intimate hygiene
- Intrauterine device (IUD, coil)
- Promiscuity (sexual contact with relatively frequently changing different partners).
Secondary prevention
- Antifungal concomitant treatment of vulvar mycosis (labia minora and/or labia majora) with ointments and creams and balanitis (glans inflammation) or balanoposthitis (balanitis combined with inflammation of the inner preputial leaf (foreskin leaf)) in the partner.
- Because of recurrent infection see below “Drug therapy“.
- Note: The therapeutic value of antifungal treatment of intestinal colonization with yeast fungi is considered low.
