Treatment of Gonorrheal Vulvovaginitis With Estrogens

Mechanisms of Man's Resistance to Infectious Diseases 1

“…A basis for this has already been suggested in this review as depending on the slower glottis reflexes of the patient and subsequent aspiration of mucus material. Resistance to gonorrheal vulvovaginitis can be materially increased with actual therapeutic benefit by estrogen medication with resulting cornification of vaginal epithelium (7). Thus histology appears to elucidate the mechanism responsible for increased vaginal resistance to gonococcal infection.…”