Pathogen free discharge:

1. Thin, relatively odourless, white or clear discharge throughout your cycle. It helps keeping the vagina clean. It's normal to show on your underwear, but it shouldn’t itch, be clumpy, or cause problems. You can fuel this with Endo-Gym Boosters in perimenopause, or with the POPin program during and after menopause. 

2. A stretchy, slippery discharge with the consistency of egg whites during ovulation. This is cervical fluid and it just means you’re healthy and fertile. It helps sperm travel into your vagina and fertilise the egg. In perimenopause you can fuel this with Endo-Gym Boosters. During and after menopause it disappears.

3. Brownish discharge in fertile age before the periods or in the middle of the cycle indicates insufficient progesterone levels. 

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Abnormal discharge:

1. Pink discharge implicates cervical bleeding, vaginal irritation or implantation bleeding. Ask your health professional for a check up.

2. White, clumpy discharge. If your symptoms also include itching, this is probably a yeast infection. It means that the growth of the naturally occurring candida bacteria in your microbiome is not controlled by another naturally occurring bacteria, the Lactobacillus.  It's often linked to sexual activity due to exposure to further bacteria that all want to gain territory. You need to make changes in your lifestyle, decrease your eating window, select food that your protective microbiome like and manage stress better. See more here: ImproveMyHormones.com 

3. Yellow discharge if odourless may implicate dehydration. Just as the urine turns darker with dehydration vaginal discharge can, too. If it's accompanied with an unpleasant odour it's a sign of bacterial infection or STI. You would not think but oral sex often delivers this kind of infection. It's more understandable now that we know that 26% of the entire microbiome is in the mouth versus 29% in the gut. First always ask for local treatment instead of antibiotics. Antibiotics kill not only pathogen bacteria but many of your protective bacteria in your microbiome and will make you prone to further infections later.

4. Thin, grey discharge accompanied by a pungent fishy smell is a sign of bacterial infection. The best is to visit your OBGYN.

5. Greenish or greyish discharge along with a negative shift in vaginal odour can be a sign of trichomoniasis.The best is to visit your OBGYN. 

6. Yellowish-green discharge. This can be a sign of a bacterial STD, like chlamydia or gonorrhea. (You may also notice burning with urination.) If you suspect a bacterial STD is the cause of your abnormal discharge, see a healthcare practitioner. and get your sexual partner(s) tested, as well. These infections can be treated with antibiotics, but if both of you don’t seek treatment, you will just pass the infection back and forth, no matter how many antibiotics you take. 

    

Endo-Gym practices give you an excellent support in achieving a better vaginal health. Check out the  Hormone Club. or ask more information: