Specific remedies are available for candidal balanitis. Both partners should be treated concurrently. There is now large variety of effective anticandidal agents of the polyene or azole group. Ketoconazole, Itraconazole and fluconazole are the oral alternatives for severe cases. Cure rate is about 90 percent.
Anaerobic balanitis responds to metronidazole rapidly.
Trichomonas infection responds to metronidazole or tinidazole. Mycoplasma balanitis responds to tetracyclines in high dose. Bacterial Vaginosis 2.1. It is a polymicrobial clinical syndrome distinguished by a disturbance of the normal microbial ecology of the vagina with displacement of peroxide-producing lactobacillary flora by a proliferation of anaerobes and characteristic abnormalities of the vaginal secretions but not characterized by an inflammatory response. The diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis is established when 3 of the 4 criteria are present.