What is STDs Disease? 

   Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted disease. It is a bacterial infection of the male urethra and female urethra, cervix, or both in women. Gonorrhea can affect the rectum, anus, neck or pelvic organs and rarely the conjunctiva (the membrane that lines the eyelid and eye surface).

Many people call gonorrhea and gonorrhea (or clap). Risk of disease is higher in women than in men.

   Gonorrhea is caused by bacteria Neisseria gonorrhea.

Gonorrhea is taken during sexual intercourse (vaginal, anal, and oral) with an infected partner. A pregnant woman can transmit the disease to the baby during birth.

   Gonorrhea can be transmitted at any time by a person infected with Neisseria gonorrhea, whether or not that person has symptoms. A sick person is contagious until treatment is done.

If a person has gonorrhea is not protected from future infection. A new exposure to gonorrhea cause infection again followed even before treatment and the disease has been cured.

Risk factors

- Multiple partners (more than one sex partner last year)

- A risk partner (partner had sex with infected partners or others)

- Unprotected sexual intercourse

- A man who has unprotected sex with another man

- Start sex earlier than 18 years

- Any child with gonorrhea doctor should be consulted to determine the cause of infection and to reveal a possible abuse.

Symptoms of gonorrhea

Almost half of sick people have no symptoms. The incubation period (time from infection to symptoms) is from 2 to 5 days, but there are times when symptoms do occur even after 30 days.

Gonorrhea can give only when symptoms spread to other parts of the body.

Symptoms in women

In women the initial symptoms are mild and can be mistaken for a bladder infection or vaginal. Symptoms may include:

- Frequent urination, painful

- Pruritus (Itching), anal pain, bleeding, incontinence

- Abnormal vaginal discharge

- Vaginal bleeding abnormal during or after sex and between periods

- Genital itching

- Irregular menstrual cycle

- Pelvic pain

- Fever and asthenia (general feeling of fatigue)

- Bartholin inflamed and painful (glands located at the entrance of the vagina)

- Painful intercourse (dyspareunia)

- Sore throat (rare)

- Conjunctivitis (Red eyes), rare.

 STDs symptoms in men

In men, symptoms are more serious, they going to the doctor for treatment before complications occur. There are men who have or have mild symptoms, they unwittingly transmitting disease. Symptoms may include:

- Penile secretions (clear or with milk at first look, then turns yellow, creamy, and excessive, sometimes with blood)

- Pruritus (itching), anal pain, bleeding, incontinence

- Sore throat (rare)

- Conjunctivitis (red eyes), rare.

Symptoms of gonorrhea that has spread to other parts than the genitals (disseminated gonococcal infection) include:

- Eruptions

- Joint pain (Arthritis)

- Inflamed tendons.

Gonorrhea causes no long term problems if treated in time, before complications occur.

Health professional should be done immediately, if there are symptoms such as:

Women:

- Severe pain, sudden pelvic region

- Pelvic pain associated with vaginal bleeding or secretions, and fever (38 degrees or higher)

- Painful urination, frequent urination or failure and fever (38 degrees or higher).

For men:

- Penile secretions, and fever (38 degrees or higher)

- painful urination (dysuria) or frequent urination and inability fever (38 degrees or higher)

- Pain, swelling, tenderness of the scrotum and fever (38 degrees or higher).

The physician should ask if an assessment is needed in the following situations:

Women:

- Yellowish vaginal discharge, thick or foul-smelling

- Bleeding between menstrual periods that occur several times, menstrual cycles being irregular

- painful intercourse

- Bleeding after sexual intercourse

- Rashes, blisters, swelling or pain around the genital or anal area

- Burning, pain, itching on urination or frequent urination lasting longer than 24 hours

- Pelvic or abdominal pain that have no apparent cause and diarrhea or menstrual cramps

- Conjunctivitis.

For men:

- Rashes, blisters, swelling or pain around the genital or anal area

- Burning, pain, itching on urination or frequent urination lasting longer than 24 hours

- Exposure to a sexually transmitted disease

- Abnormal penile secretions

- conjunctivitis.

Consultation should be done when a person has unprotected sex with someone who has or is suspected of having a sexually transmitted disease.

Is the time when patients and doctors monitor symptoms without treatment. Watchful waiting is recommended for gonorrhea. Not treated in time but cause long term problems, untreated, leads to complications. Avoiding sex to examination by a doctor is not obligatory to infect other people. If a person was exposed, that person should follow along with partner treatment even if no symptoms. Partners who have sex in the last 60 days of when symptoms appeared to be announced or confirmed diagnosis. If this can be done by the person concerned can appeal to specialized departments of the hospitals they are dealing with this process.

Medical specialists recommend

- GP

- Internist

- Gynecologist.

Diagnosis and treatment at a low price can be made at local hospitals, family planning centers. If former partners are not notified of the person concerned can appeal to specialized departments of the hospitals they are dealing with this process.

Most people do not feel comfortable to go to their doctor for a sexually transmitted disease. There are clinics where diagnosis and treatment of STDs is strictly confidential.

Note!

Some people infected with gonorrhea shows have also Chlamydia infection. Therefore the treatment must be placed on antibiotics and action that Chlamydia.

Infection again can occur. Symptoms remitted after treatment may not be caused by an infection again with gonorrhea or ineffective treatment, especially if you made a sexual contact with a person from an area of increased risk of antibiotic resistance. To prevent infection again need assessment and treatment of simultaneous partner. Reinfection be used to treat antibiotic.

Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is a serious complication of gonorrhea can lead to infertility and in rare cases death. To prevent PID is needed immediate treatment of gonorrhea.

Disseminated gonococci infection (IGD) usually require hospitalization and antibiotic treatment intravenous or intramuscularly

Gonorrhea is not treated early can cause long term problems. Left untreated, gonorrhea lead to serious complications.

Complications in women

Sick women may develop complications of untreated reproductive system:

- Pelvic inflammatory disease. The risk of infertility increases each episode of illness

- Tub-ovarian abscess or ovarian

- inflammation of Bartholin

- ectopic pregnancy

- chronic pelvic pain

- infertility

- Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome (rare).

Complications in pregnant women

Issues untreated gonorrhea in pregnant women include:

- Possibility of pregnancy

- premature birth. Women can take medicines to prevent premature birth but hospitalized, a premature baby is at risk for health problems

- Premature rupture of membranes occurs before the start of labor contractions. Amniotic sac ruptures and amniotic fluid gushing or less common, slow drain

- Infections of the endometrial (endometritis) (layer lining the uterus)

A woman with gonorrhea can infect the baby during birth. Women with untreated gonorrhea and infected child birth can be most likely long-term complications.

Complications in newborns

- Conjunctivitis. Most infants with gonorrhea have conjunctivitis

- Disseminated infection by blood (sepsis)

- Inflammation of the joints (arthritis)

- Infections of the scalp in place fetal monitoring device

- Infection and tissue fluid around the brain and spinal cord (meningitis).

Complications in men

Men with untreated gonorrhea may develop:

- Infection of the urethra (urethritis)

- epididymitis, An inflammation and infection of the epididymis (a long tube, which is found tightly wrapped in back each testicle that collects and sperm)

- prostate inflammation

- infertility.

Complications of untreated gonorrhea in other parts of the body

Complications of disseminated gonococci infection include:

- Fever

- Disseminated infection by blood (sepsis)

- Inflammation of joints (Arthritis). Commonly affects the knees and hands

- Infection and inflammation of the heart valves and chambers (endocarditic)

- Infection and tissue fluid around the brain and spinal cord (meningitis).

Because women have no symptoms early so they do not seek treatment and increase the risk of complications, gonorrhea appeared in different parts of the body.

If a person has gonorrhea is not protected from future infection. A new exposure to gonorrhea cause infection again followed even before treatment and the disease has been cured.

It may take measures to reduce the risk of gonococci infection or other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Can also reduce the risk of gonorrhea transmission from sexual partner.

- practicing safe sex. Preventing an STD is easier than treating it once appeared. Talk to your partner about STDs before beginning a sexual relationship. Be found if he or she has an increased risk of STDs. Do not forget that the disease can exist and if no symptoms. Some STDs, like AIDS can evolve within 6 months to develop the signs of infection in the blood. Maintaining a sexual act is an act of responsibility. Therefore to avoid sex if an STD or during treatment for an STD. Avoid sex with someone who is suffering from an STD or could have been exposed to an STD. Not indicated maintenance of sex with many partners at the same time, because it increases the risk of STDs. If group sex was practiced in recent years gender or gay relationships should be conducted screening for gonorrhea or other STDs, even if no symptoms

- Condom use. It reduces your risk of STDs, especially of gonorrhea, and HIV infection Chlamydia. Condoms should be made before starting intercourse. If change must partner used a condom at each sexual contact until we know with certainty that the new partner has no STDs. Condoms can be used both for women and men. Even if women use and other Contraception methods, One can use a condom for STD prevention. Female condom use when partner does not use a condom.