Pregnancy tips Pregnancy Self Care Program

A large number of premature births are caused by infections. This article discusses how women can start examining themselves and identify these problems earlier. This leads to earlier treatment and better pregnancy outcomes. Read more:

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If you self-examine yourself, you can do it at much shorter intervals than is possible within the usual prenatal care visits and thus identify the initial changes of the vaginal pH much earlier.

How to determine vaginal pH

How do you determine your own vaginal pH?
The CarePlan®VpH test glove has been developed with our collaboration to measure the vaginal pH. A test strip whose color changes according to the pH is located on the index finger of the CarePlan®VpH test glove. You can perform this measurement at any time of the day and it is simple to use.

Put the glove on your right hand (even if you are left-handed) so that the test strip is on the inner side of your index finger. You should not touch the strip with wet fingers as this may give you a false result. Introduce the index finger about 2-3 cm (about one inch) into your vagina (no more than 3 cm as this may give you false information because the pH value is normally higher deep in the vagina) and then turn your index finger several times back and forth to make sure it gets well moistened inside the vagina. You can try different positions to make this easier such as standing, with one foot raised on a chair.

Remove your finger from the vagina and immediately compare the color of the test strip while it’s still moist with the color-scale (see illustration) and identify the correct color and the corresponding pH. The value is normal if it corresponds to the yellow color of the pH values 4.0 or 4.4.