Gonorrhea

General characteristic of a disease

Gonorrhea is the infectious disease caused by gonokokka. The disease affects urinogenital system and is transmitted preferential at sexual contacts. Every year symptoms of gonorrhea come to light at 62 million people. In Russia more than 170 thousand new infected patients are annually fixed. In 50-70% of cases gonorrhea at men and women is combined with other diseases of urinogenital system, in particular, with trichomoniasis and clamidiosis.

How the infection gets to an organism?

In most cases infection with gonorrhea occurs during sexual contact. At the same time symptoms of gonorrhea can be shown both after usual vaginal contact, and after proctal or oral sex. In the last two cases at the person gonococcal damages of a rectum and an oral cavity respectively develop. Infection with an infection is also possible directly at the child's birth when the kid gets sick when passing in patrimonial ways of sick mother.

In rare instances gonorrhea at women develops after use of personal care products of the infected person. However household infection nevertheless is an exception, than the rule. It is caused by two reasons:

• the contagium quickly perishes out of a carrier body;
• in order that gonorrhea began to develop, the necessary number of activators has to get to an organism, and at a household way it is almost impossible. Thus, you can not be afraid of infection in public toilets, baths and swimming pools that, however, does not cancel observance of elementary rules of precaution.

Gonorrhea – disease symptoms

Mainly, gonorrhea affects urinogenital system, but at severe forms of a disease she mentions also other bodies (an oral cavity, eyes, joints, a throat). The first symptoms of gonorrhea are shown in 1-2 weeks after infection. Symptoms of gonorrhea are various for men and women.

Gonorrhea at women is shown:

• purulent discharges from a vagina;
• fervescence;
• pains in the lower part of a stomach;
• disturbance of a menstrual cycle;
• increase in number of blood allocations during periods;
• pain in time and after sexual intercourse;
• the speeded-up desires to an urination;
• pains during an urination;
• hypostasis and irritation of external genitals.

Gonorrhea at men has the following characteristic signs:

• emergence of purulent discharges from an urethra;
• morbidity during an urination;
• reddening of a balanus;
• hypostases in the field of outlet opening of an urethra.

Gonorrhea which symptoms appeared after proctal sex, testifies to a possible inflammation of a rectum. Therefore at irritation, an itch and purulent discharges from an anus it is necessary to address the specialist venereologist urgently.

What possible complications of gonorrhea?

As well as many other diseases of urinogenital system, gonorrhea can lead to serious effects. In particular, gonorrhea which treatment does not correspond established by rules extends from a vagina in other bodies, causes infertility, risk of development of an extrauterine pregnancy, pain at occupations sex, the premature birth of the child. Besides, at the children who caught gonorrhea from mother heavy infections of eyes, blood and joints often come to light. Also chronic gonorrhea at men which leads to an inflammation of ovaries and infertility is not less dangerous.

Diagnosis of gonorrhea

At any suspicions on existence of gonorrhea it is necessary to address in a dermatovenerologic clinic and to pass a comprehensive investigation of the channel of a neck of uterus and urethra. You should not be surprised if doctors want to take samples from a rectum, with mucous a century and drinks. They are necessary for identification of bacteria and definition of methods of controlling with gonorrhea. Besides, the diagnosis gonorrhea is confirmed on the basis of researches of samples of urine and blood. As gonorrhea often develops against the background of such diseases as clamidiosis and trichomoniasis, in addition undertake smears for detection of these and other infections, sexually transmitted.

What to do if at you found gonorrhea?

• not to self-medicate at all;
• to see a doctor and to implement all his recommendations;
• for some time to refuse sexual contacts;
• to inform all the partners in order that they could undergo inspection and begin treatment at early stages;

Gonorrhea – treatment of a disease

All main schemes of treatment of gonorrhea mean use of antibiotics. At the same time the doctor has to appoint as means which influence gonokokk, and drugs against clamidiosis and other widespread diseases of urinogenital system. Directly gonorrhea is treated by means of a tsefiksim, ciprofloxacin, an ofloksatsin. Against chlamydias well help: диоксициклин and azithromycin. The attending physician has to choose a dosage and a route of administration of drugs.