my 8 year old step daughter has recurring vaginal smell, this has been present on and off for the last 5 years. When we have her every other weekend we do not use any soap or bath products, but her mother still uses bathing products. She sometimes complains of itching.. We took her to our GP this time last year and he did not take any swabs, examined her reluctantly and advised us she had no infection. The problem has carried on being recurring and this last weekend she came with the smell thursday which was evident when she undressed. She bathed thursday night, saturday morning and sunday afternoon. She went back to her mother sunday evening and then we collected her from school monday and the smell had returned. So we do not believe is connected to lack of clenliness. Can you advise us
Dear stepmother, your concern is genuine. In your stepdaughters case you need to be watchful, and teach her how to clean her private parts. And keep it clean and Chat Doctor.  But what more is needed here is communication. Her faith in you as a well-wisher. She is a small child, who knows what she has been thinking and feeling, as running from one parent to other, again and again is traumatic. You may take her to a gynecologist and get her tested for any infection or other.