Episode 3: Growing up Healthy: A Girl’s Guide to Urinary and Vaginal Health
Update: 2025-04-02
Description
In this episode, we’re joined by Kelly Allan, a senior naturopath and nutritional therapist at The Paediatric Naturopath. Kelly brings both clinical expertise and a deep understanding to the topic of young girls’ urinary and vaginal health. We explore common concerns we see in the clinic. Kelly shares some practical tips for supporting vulva health, when to investigate further, and how parents can confidently navigate these issues.
In this episode, we explore:
- Kelly’s personal experiences that lead her into naturopathy
- Common genital issues in clinic with young girls
- The link between threadworms and vulvovaginitis
- How to manage vaginal threadworms
- Dealing with thrush in young girls
- Whether the vaginal microbiome can be assessed in children
- Kelly’s top tips for a child’s vulva health
- When toilet-trained children begin to have accidents
- Recurrent UTIs in girls and within families
- Skin conditions that can present on the vulva
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