Signs, symptoms and modern treatment for gonorrhea
Gonorrhea, go in a different way, gonorrhea is a venereal disease that affects the mucous surface of the urogenital system, occasionally on the oral mucosa, conjunctiva and rectum.
Gonorrhea is transmitted through unprotected sex, as well as during childbirth to a child from an infected mother. Infection can also occur with an oral or anal connection. Women get infected from men almost always. Also causative agents of pathology - gonococci can get into the sexual organs of girls through dirty hands, a towel, bed linen or a sponge. Modern treatment of gonorrhea allows for full recovery.
Stages of pathology
The incubation period for gonorrhea can last from a few hours to two months. This is due to the individual properties of each person's immunity, the structure of the genitourinary system and the hormonal background.
Typically, the stages of gonorrhea are classified into:
- Incubation - for up to two months.
- Chronic.
- In addition, the disease is classified into several types, depending on the form of the course:
- Acute gonorrhea.
- Asymptomatic gonorrhea.
- Latent gonorrhea.
With the development of concomitant pathologies in the body, it is required to organize a thorough diagnosis and establishment of all infectious agents.
Manifestations of the pathology
Symptoms of acute form of gonorrhea in the female body include:
- Vaginal discharge is purulent or serous-purulent.
- Redness, swelling and the formation of sores on the mucous surface of the affected organs.
- Frequent urge and painful urination, accompanied by burning and itching.
- Appearance of bleeding between menstruation.
- Pain sensations in the lower abdomen.
More than half of all cases of gonorrhea in women become a slow process, with virtually no symptoms. In a situation, an overdue visit to the doctor causes the risk of developing ascending inflammation, when gonorrhea affects the fallopian tubes, uterus, peritoneum and ovaries. In this regard, the general state of health worsens, the temperature rises, the cycle of menstruation is disrupted, nausea with vomiting and diarrhea develop.
In the body of girls, often gonorrhea is acute, makes itself felt through swelling and reddening of the mucous surface of the vulva and vestibule of the vagina, provokes burning and itching of the genitals, the separation of pus and pain during urination.
Symptomatic of gonorrhea in the male body manifests itself in the form of an acute form of urethritis:
- Burning and itching, edema of the urethra.
- Abundant departments of purulent or serous-purulent nature.
- Often painful urination.
- Difficulty with urination.
- When the disease starts and its ascendant type develops, the prostate, seminal vesicles, testes become affected, the body temperature increases, chills and pain arise during defecation.
Treating the pathology of
It is forbidden to perform independent treatment of gonorrhea, as it can increase the risk of the disease transition to a chronic stage that causes irreversible damage in the human body. Only a doctor can accurately say and decide how to treat chronic gonorrhea in this or that situation.
The examination and subsequent treatment is mandatory for all the sexual partners of the patient who have come into contact with him in the last two weeks, or the last sexual partner if the contact was two weeks before the diagnosis of the pathology.
In the absence of clinical manifestations of the disease all sex partners have been subjected to the survey in the last two months. During the treatment of the disease it is forbidden to drink alcohol, to have sex, and in case of clinical observation, sexual relations are resolved, but only if condom is used.
Modern venereology helps patients to find an effective remedy for gonorrhea. In the course of treatment, the duration of development of the pathology, its signs, the site of the lesion, the presence of complications and additional infectious lesions must be taken into account.
Many patients wonder if it is possible to cure gonorrhea completely. Doctors say that before the moment of transition of the disease to a chronic stage and under the condition of timely treatment, the disease can be successfully treated.
With the development of an acute ascending form of gonorrhea, the patient needs hospitalization, observance of bed rest, medical treatment. When forming purulent abscesses, urgent surgical intervention is organized - laparotomy or laparoscopy. The main place in therapy is treated with antibiotic drugs, taking into account the stability of certain types of microbes. In the absence of the effect of the chosen drug, the patient is assigned another drug, provided that the susceptibility of the pathogen is first detected.