Desquamative Inflammatory Vaginitis or DIV

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Desquamative inflammatory vaginitis or DIV is a relatively newly described vaginitis (the term was first introduced in 1965). It is one of the more uncommon causes of vaginitis, so we don’t have as much data on it as we do for other causes of vaginitis, such as yeast and bacterial vaginosis.

The cause of DIV is as yet unknown. What we do know is that it …