What are the benefits of using commercial probiotics instead of antibiotics to prevent bacterial vaginosis?

Our intestines harbour trillions of bacteria which are living in harmony with our body. These bacteria form part of a huge ecological community in our digestive tract known as the gut microbiota. Many of the colonies are commensal in nature and some even help to produce vitamin K which is essential to the body. Overall, we need these bacteria to maintain normal gut digestive and absorption functions. Probiotics belong to the group of bacteria we classified as "non-pathogenic" and they can help our microbiota in maintaining gut health in many situations.

For most women, bacterial vaginosis is a common bacterial vaginal infection that usually clears after a week of antibiotic treatment. If the infection is still recurrent after 6 months, this could indicate that your natural vaginal pH is too alkaline and you may want to restore this back to the natural mildly acidic environment which then makes you less susceptible to bacterial vaginal infections. This is because, in the natural mildly acidic environment, bacterial and fungal organisms are unable to grow.