2007-04-03 07:35:46 · 5 answers · asked by 69 1 in Health ➔ Women's Health
A healthy vagina is not suppost to have any smell. If the vagina has a fish like smell, it could be an infection than needs to be treated.
2007-04-03 08:01:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Vaginal areas shouldn't have a SMELLY odor, they might have musty odor (like from sweat in the groin area) but the vaginal area - if it's clean and the person practices good personal hygiene (read: bathes regularly) - should have no more than a slightly sweet/pungent scent.
If there's an offensive odor, then the person needs to be more active in personal cleanliness.
2007-04-03 14:58:43 · answer #2 · answered by Brutally Honest 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
YOU think they're smelly, but they're just vaginas, and they're supposed to smell a certain way when they're healthy.
The tissue inside the vagina relies on anaerobic respiration and glycolysis as its main source of energy. As a result, you get the secretion of acidic byproducts like lactic acid and acetic acid. These substances do have distinct scents. In conjunction with pheromones, they produce the scent we recognize as vagina: slightly musky with a faint vinegary tinge.
Infections like bacterial vaginosis can result in nitrogenous byproducts like amines, and this producings a fishy off-odor. Yeasts produce alcohols and some acids, and that's why yeast infections can smell bready or beer-like.
But I have found that only immature people don't have an appreciation for what a healthy vagina should smell like. It's not like roses, but it's what our bodies were intended to do.
2007-04-03 14:44:36 · answer #3 · answered by Gumdrop Girl 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
y does ur mouth hav a smelly odor?
2007-04-03 14:47:48 · answer #4 · answered by TheApocalypticOrgasm 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
any hole that leads into your body has an odor.
mouth, anus, vagina, etc
2007-04-03 14:46:08 · answer #5 · answered by here-we-go 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋