Gonorrhea at women

Gonorrhea this infectious disease at which the activator is transferred sexually (STD – infections, sexually transmitted). Gonorrhea at women has the certain features of course connected with features of a female reproductive system. Gonorrhea at women is dangerous that it in the absence of treatment and transition of process to chronic, can lead to infertility.

The gonorrhea reason at women

Is the reason of gonorrhea at women in most cases the unprotected sexual contact with the infection carrier. Infection with gonorrhea of the woman with a household way is in rare instances possible, usually when using of the general with the activator carrier of towels or basts. Gonorrhea girls of younger age (2-6 years) catch the most often household way, and in most cases a source of an infection is the infected mother.

The causative agent of gonorrhea is гонококк. Gonokokki is a species of bacteria which are sensitive to drying, to antiseptic agents, processing by high temperature (death happens at a temperature exceeding 55 °C), and also under the influence of direct sunshine. Gonokokk belongs to a microorganism with high contageousness. It means that chances to catch gonorrhea to the woman at direct contact with the activator are very high, the probability makes about 70%.

Gonorrhea symptoms at women

Craftiness of this disease consists that early symptoms of gonorrhea at women, as a rule, are absent. In it the main difference of gonorrhea from gonorrhea at men as because of the erased clinical picture gonorrhea at women extends to internals of urinogenital system more often and gets a chronic current from women.

Symptoms of gonorrhea at women in an initial stage of an acute form, at damage of the lower genital tract (vulvar lips, a vagina, the cervical channel, an urethra), are not expressed. Easy burning at an urination can be felt, an itch in a vagina and white dense allocations. If treatment is not undertaken at this stage, gonokokk on urinogenital ways extend further, and strike an upper part of urinogenital system, usually it is uterine tubes and paraurethral glands. Gonorrhea symptoms at women in this case are more expressed. It is pain in the bottom of a stomach, fever, sharp deterioration in the general state, a frequent urodynia, and frustration of a menstrual cycle.

Upon transition of inflammatory process in chronic, symptoms of gonorrhea at women are again erased. The leading symptoms of gonorrhea at women in this case are disturbances of a menstrual cycle and infertility.

Besides, in certain cases any signs gonorrhea at women can be absent, and the disease will proceed in the latent form, it will not be revealed yet or when building a chain from the caught partner, or at inspection in other occasion.

It is necessary to notice what гонококк strikes an epithelium mainly in the place of infection. Therefore if the sexual contact with the carrier of an infection was made in the oral or proctal way, then symptoms of gonorrhea at women will be shown in the form of gonorrheal stomatitis, tonsillitis, pharyngitis, or a gonorrheal paraproctitis.

Diagnosis of gonorrhea at women

Gonorrhea is found in women by a bacteriological research of contents of a vagina. A diagnostic character is detection of a gonokokk in a smear. Doctors note what separately гонококк almost does not meet in recent years, and takes place polyinfection when together with gonokokky there are also other STD.

Treatment of gonorrhea at women

Treatment of gonorrhea at women, however, as well as gonorrhoeas at men, it is necessary to begin at once after confirmation of the diagnosis. What began treatment of gonorrhea at women, with that a high probability of development of irreversible changes in uterus appendages as a result of chronic inflammatory process later.

The main method of treatment of gonorrhea at women is an antibioticotherapia. The antibiotics of the last generation capable to make impact on gram-negative flora which treats гонококк are applied. It must be kept in mind what гонококк can have resistance to antibiotics, and also the fact that treatment of gonorrhea at different stages demands various dosage therefore self-treatment is inadmissible from women.

Use of antibiotics leads to dysbacteriosis, both intestines, and a vagina therefore treatment of gonorrhea at women is completed administration of drugs, promoting recovery of microflora. An important condition of treatment of gonorrhea at women is the refusal of alcohol intake and sexual contacts. Therapy is carried out under bacteriological control. Gonorrhea at the woman is considered cured only when the control bacteriological research shows lack of gonokokk in smears or scrapings.

Gonorrhea effects at women

As it was already told, chronic gonorrhea can cause commissural process in uterus appendages in women that is the reason of their impassability, and in the subsequent infertility. As the uterus also is involved in process, even at approach of pregnancy the risk of not incubation of a fruit is very high. In most cases pregnancy at women with gonorrhea comes to an end with an abortion or premature births. The child, passing through patrimonial ways of the woman with gonorrhea, directly contacts to the activator, the gonorrheal blepharitis and conjunctivitis of newborns is a consequence of what.