Treatment and signs of gonorrhea

Gonorrhea is a dangerous and common sexually transmitted disease. Pathogen - gonococcus. In a neglected state, the disease can adversely affect the health of a person, in its consequences it is equated with syphilis. Gonorrhea causes a variety of sexual disorders, leads to infertility, affects all the genital organs of a woman, including the most important - the uterus. If a person has suspected signs of gonorrhea, you should immediately contact the venereologist to confirm or deny the diagnosis and start treatment.

Ways of infection:

- vaginal, anal, oral sex with a sick partner;

- Infection of a newborn child with a mother;

- By the household way. In the baths, through underwear, towels and stuff.

After entering the body, the microbe begins to parasitize on the mucous membranes of the genital organs, followed by the incubation period, which lasts for women up to ten days, for men up to five. Then different signs of gonorrhea begin to appear. Some of them are the same for women and men, and other manifestations are different.

Signs of gonorrhea in women

1. The very first manifestation is a selection. They have a rather unpleasant smell, purulent, yellow or greenish in color.

2. There may be bloody discharge and clots, but this is not related to menstruation. This indicates inflammation of the affected cervix.

3. Drawing pain in the abdominal region. Pain can grow, roll up and gradually release, it feels like pain in menstruation.

4. When urinating, painful burning occurs.

5. Unpleasant sensations during sex, sometimes the process is accompanied by pain and burning sensation of the mucous membranes.

6. Do not rule out fever, vomiting and nausea.

Signs of gonorrhea in men

1. Discharge from the penis. They have a white color with a yellow or green tinge. Some time after the appearance of the first secretions, they change and become purulent, sometimes contain blood.

2. Painful sensation when urinating, burning.

3. Swelling, pain in the scrotum.

Signs of gonorrhea, typical of both sexes

1. Gonococci can spread and parasitize in the rectum. In this case, we can talk about gonorrhea of the rectum, it is accompanied by purulent yellowish-green discharge from the anus.

2. Infection can spread to the eyes, causing irritation and inflammation of the mucous membranes.

3. Pain in the throat and the appearance of characteristic mucus testify to the ingestion of gonococci on the mucous membranes of the larynx.

Very important! Not always an infected person can find symptoms of gonorrhea. In some cases, it will be a carrier.

Gonorrhea. Than to treat?

In this case, it is simply unacceptable to apply various folk methods and grandmother's advice to treat gonorrhea . The disease is very serious and can only be medicated by specialized medications.

After the reference to the venereologist, the doctor at once takes the analysis on a gonorrhea, by results of which individual treatment is appointed. Usually prescribed course of antibiotics. In case there are contraindications and allergic reaction of the patient, alternative preparations of the other group are chosen.

Standard treatment - antibiotics, immunotherapy, physiotherapy procedures.

During the course of treatment, the patient is contraindicated in having sex, drinking, visiting saunas and swimming pools. In strict accordance with the rules of hygiene. The patient should have a separate bed linen, towels and the like.

After the course of treatment it is necessary to pass a second analysis to confirm the complete cure.