Table 1.

Reasons for withdrawal from trial of oral and vaginal lactobacillus for preventing post-antibiotic vulvovaginitis among 278 women and levels of poor compliance. Values are numbers of women

	Treatment group
Withdrawal and compliance	Oral and vaginal lactobacillus (n=67)	Oral lactobacillus and vaginal placebo (n=73)	Oral placebo and vaginal lactobacillus (n=70)	Oral and vaginal placebo (n=68)
Withdrawal from trial, reasons:	7	9	9	13
Unknown	2	2	4	5
Forgot treatment	2	0	0	3
Lost interest	1	1	2	1
Too sick	1	1	1	2
Moved from area	1	2	0	0
Death in family	0	1	2	1
Side effects	0	1	0	0
Stopped antibiotics	0	1	0	1
Poor compliance (took less than half of treatment):
Antibiotic	1	1	0	1
Oral intervention	5	2	2	5
Vaginal intervention	9	6	7	4