Vaginal Health on the Go: Summer Travel Tips

Summer brings sunshine, spontaneity, and travel, but it also brings challenges for your vaginal health. As someone who has personally dealt with recurrent UTIs and dedicated my career to understanding the vaginal microbiome through biomedical engineering, I can assure you: seasonal changes, irregular routines, and travel-related stressors can throw your vaginal ecosystem out of balance if you're not proactive.

Here’s what I want you to know about keeping your vaginal health intact while enjoying everything summer has to offer.

1. Hydration Supports More Than Just Your Skin

Travel often means flights, alcohol, and caffeine, all of which are dehydrating. Dehydration doesn't just affect your energy and skin; it also impacts your mucosal membranes, including the vaginal lining. When your tissues are dry, you're more prone to irritation and infection.

Support hydration with water and electrolyte-rich foods like cucumber, watermelon, and leafy greens. Remember, your vaginal health starts at a cellular level.

2. Skip the Fragrance, Not the Hygiene

Scented wipes, douches, and antibacterial washes marketed for feminine hygiene often do more harm than good. These products can strip away the good bacteria (especially Lactobacillus) that maintain an acidic, protective vaginal environment.

Stick to lukewarm water and plain, unscented soap for external cleansing only. Your vagina is self-cleaning. Over-cleansing or using products with added fragrance disrupts this natural process.

3. Don't Skip Your Probiotics—Even on Vacation

When your diet changes and you're exposed to new microbes, your gut and vaginal microbiome can shift quickly. That's why probiotics are essential while traveling.

With Clarity, our foundational oral probiotic at With Meraki Co, is designed to support the gut-vagina axis by reinforcing your microbiome with targeted Lactobacillus strains. These strains produce lactic acid and hydrogen peroxide to protect against harmful pathogens.

Proactive use of With Clarity before and during travel helps maintain resilience against yeast, BV, and UTIs, even when you're off routine.

4. Avoid Staying in Wet Clothes

Heat and humidity, combined with prolonged periods in wet swimsuits, create an ideal environment for yeast and bacterial overgrowth. Moisture disrupts the natural pH and encourages biofilm formation, a key reason infections become chronic or recurrent.

Change out of swimsuits as soon as possible and wear breathable, moisture-wicking underwear. It's a simple shift that can make a big difference.

5. Support Digestion to Support Your Vagina

Summer diets can be heavier or more processed than usual, especially when dining out while traveling. Gut health and vaginal health are closely connected; an inflamed, sluggish gut increases your vulnerability to vaginal infections.

While many don’t realize it, digestive support can help by reducing inflammation and biofilm buildup. Learn more about our Gut Revival powder.

6. Prevention Is the Most Powerful Tool

Vaginal imbalances often start subtly. If you're someone who "always gets a yeast infection on antibiotics" or "feels off" after a trip, you're not alone, and you're not powerless.

Your best line of defense is consistency. A daily oral probiotic like With Clarity and gut support with Gut Revival, helps build a resilient microbiome. Especially in the summer, when sweating, swimming, and stress levels are higher, this proactive care goes a long way.

Your vaginal health doesn’t take a break when you do. But with a little planning and the right tools, you can stay balanced and confident no matter where summer takes you.

– Giana Jarrah

Founder, With Meraki Co.