Vaginal discomfort is likely one of the most typical causes girls search healthcare recommendation, however commonplace care isn’t all the time assembly sufferers’ wants. That’s why Evvy, a vaginal microbiome startup, has launched a brand new prescription product line for vaginal symptom reduction.
The remedies within the product line use non-toxic elements and have been compounded in a 503a NABP-accredited pharmacy. The product line contains:
Pure Boric Acid Suppositories ($35): A fragrance-free vaginal suppository that’s meant to revive vaginal pH steadiness and alleviate discomfort, together with vaginal odor and irritation
Hyaluronic Acid Suppositories ($59): A hormone-free, moisturizing vaginal suppository that relieves vaginal dryness and ache throughout intercourse
Anti-Itch Vulva Cream ($59): A topical cream with hydrocortisone, aloe and vitamin E that soothes exterior itching and irritation
Soothing Vulva Cream ($59): A topical cream with hyaluronic acid, aloe and vitamin E that relieves exterior dryness and irritation
Up to now, New York Metropolis-based Evvy solely supplied these remedies after shoppers took its vaginal microbiome check, which prices $129. The check helps girls perceive the foundation explanation for their vaginal discomfort by checking for micro organism and fungi within the vagina and offering an evaluation of all the genome. Based mostly on the outcomes, prospects obtain personalized therapy plans and a one-on-one digital session with a coach. Nevertheless, the corporate realized that customers have been excited by extra pressing reduction of their signs.
“What we’ve heard from our tens of hundreds of sufferers at this level is, in fact, they wish to get to the foundation trigger and defend themselves sooner or later, however in addition they wish to really feel higher proper now,” stated Priyanka Jain, co-founder and CEO of Evvy, in an interview. “And I feel it’s actually onerous to entry the sorts of services that individuals must get trusted, high quality, clear merchandise to assist relieve their signs proper now, whereas they’re additionally taking the journey of actually attempting to enhance their vaginal well being long run.”
To entry the remedies, shoppers can go to the Evvy web site. They’ll be requested to fill out a well being consumption type and share details about signs and well being historical past. That data is reviewed by a medical supplier, who is ready to prescribe the therapy. The product is then delivered to the affected person’s house.
The discharge of the product line comes as many battle to entry efficient reduction merchandise for vaginal discomfort.
“A conventional doctor is simply going to prescribe an antifungal or an antibiotic,” stated Dr. Kate McLean, Evvy’s chief medical officer, in an interview. “They’re actually not prescribing any reduction merchandise, usually. At most, they may have entry to a hydrocortisone product, nevertheless it’s simply going to be hydrocortisone blended with some form of irritating base, doubtlessly. It’s not going to be blended with aloe and vitamin E and a hypoallergenic moisturizing base like Evvy’s is. So these are merely higher merchandise. If a doctor needed to attempt to do that themselves, they’d need to have a relationship with a compounding pharmacy. And people might be actually troublesome to seek out.”
Wanting forward, Evvy goals to develop the remedies out there to its prospects. It additionally hopes to leverage its vaginal microbiome check to enhance different areas of ladies’s well being, equivalent to fertility, being pregnant and cervical most cancers, Jain stated.
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