What color is healthy discharge?

What color is healthy discharge?

Most of the time, vaginal discharge is perfectly normal. The amount can vary, as can odor and color (which can range from clear to a milky white-ish), depending on the time in your menstrual cycle. For example, there will be more discharge when you're ovulating, breastfeeding, or sexually aroused.

What is your discharge telling you?

Clear, elastic mucous resembling raw egg whites is normal. Your discharge will look like this from the beginning of your cycle through ovulation—its stickiness helps draw sperm into your uterus. Again, this is totally healthy. Clumpy white discharge usually indicates a yeast infection.

When should I be concerned about discharge?

You should consult your health care provider, within one day, anytime you have symptoms or concerns relating to abnormal vaginal discharge. Especially if it is accompanied by a foul odor or has an abnormal color such as gray, green, or yellow.

What does Chlamydia look like?

Chlamydia symptoms can include pus-like yellow discharge; frequent or painful urination; spotting between periods or after sex; and/or rectal pain, bleeding, or discharge.

Why do I have brownish discharge?

When there is no pregnancy, brown discharge may be caused by: old blood leaving the uterus a few days after the end of a period. a period just beginning to start, where the flow is very light. ovulation spotting, which may be pinkish-brown.

What does yeast infection look like?

What Are the Signs and Symptoms of Vaginal Yeast Infections? redness, swelling, or itching of the vulva (the folds of skin outside the vagina) a thick, white discharge that can look like cottage cheese and is usually odorless, although it might smell like bread or yeast.

What color is discharge when pregnant?

What is yellow discharge during pregnancy? When you're pregnant, you produce leukorrhea — a harmless vaginal discharge caused by an increase in estrogen levels. Leukorrhea is thin, clear or milky white, and mild-smelling, and it's normal for the amount to increase as your pregnancy progresses.

What does yeast infection discharge look like?

The most common symptoms of a yeast infection are itching and vaginal discharge. The discharge is often thick, white, and curd-like (almost like cottage cheese). The discharge will be odorless. Other signs are burning, redness, and irritation of the vaginal area.