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To those with intimate gyno knowledge, the Clue cell is a nick name for vaginal wall cells, seen on a smear, that have bacteria on their surface. Your gyno will see these when you come in to be evaluated and she looks at a smear under the microscope. In actuality that is all that is needed for a fairly firm diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis, and it's a quick and relatively cost effective way of making that diagnosis too. These cells can be detected on smear when women have  Bacterial Vaginoisis (BV). This infection gets started when you loose the normal vaginal lactobacilli that produce the hydrogen peroxide discharge that keeps the vagina very acidic. If the pH changes, becomes too basic, other bacteria will overgrow. And those there are normally over 100,000 colonies of bacteria growing in the vagina, and those that produce BV are only 1%, a slight increase in that 1% can cause the infection. Vaginal itching is very common in with these infections, and it can occur in women of ...