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| Gonorrhea/Clap |
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| Gonorrhea also known as the clap, is a sexually
transmitted bacterial disease, which differs in males and females. |
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| Symptoms |
The symptoms in males include a yellowish
discharge from the penis, which causes painful, frequent urination. Symptoms
can develop from two to thirty days after infection. A few percent of infected
men have no symptoms. The infection may move into the prostate, seminal
vesicles, and epididymis, causing pain and fever. Untreated, gonorrhea can lead
to sterility.
Less than half the women with gonorrhea show any
symptoms, or symptoms so mild they just ignore. Early symptoms include a
discharge from the vagina, some discomfort in the lower abdomen, irritation of
the genitals, pain or burning during urination and some abnormal bleeding.
Women, who leave these symptoms untreated, develop severe complications. The
infection will usually spread to the uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries,
causing Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID). Gonorrhea is the most common cause
of female infertility.
Some early symptoms of this infection are lower
abdomen pain, fever, nausea, and pain during intercourse.
In both men
and women if gonorrhea is left untreated, it may spread throughout the body,
affecting joints and even heart valves. |
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| Treatment |
| There is treatment for gonorrhea, since it is a
bacterial infection, and the name of the drug is Ceftriaxone. |
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| Transmission |
| The bacterium that causes gonorrhea can be passed
through intercourse, anal sex, and cunnilingus. The transmission is by contact
of fluids from mucous membranes of infected people and it usually is through
sexual activity. Most frequently, these bacteria infect the man's urethra, the
tube that carries urine and semen through the penis, and the woman's cervix,
the canal into the uterus. |
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| Testing |
There are two types of testing to show if you have
gonorrhea. One is called gram strain, which is usually more accurate for men
then for women. The test consists of placing a smear of the discharge on a
slide that has a dye in it and when examined under a microscope shows the
presence of gonorrhea.
The next test is a culture test, this one is
usually used to tell if women have gonorrhea or not. It involves taking a
sample of the discharge and placing it on a culture plate to incubate for two
days, to allow the bacteria to multiply. Cervical samples are more accurate, to
tell if the woman has gonorrhea or not. |
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