Wear clean underpants every day. Cotton panties with a cotton crotch are best. Avoid vaginal spray deodorants and irritating soaps. When you go to the bathroom, wipe front to back, never back to front. If you feel the need to use a douche, do not douche more often than once a month.
Douches tend to remove the normal bacteria that keep yeast from infecting the vagina.
You have other questions or concerns. Written by David W. Kaplan, M.D., and the staff of the Adolescent Medicine Center, The Children's Hospital, Denver, Colorado.