Gonorrhea or clap
Gonorrhea or clap is a sexually transmitted disease which is caused by certain
bacteria, the Neisseria gonorrhoeae or gonococcen. 60 million new illnesses
are registered worldwide per annum. Women and men fall ill with it in the
same frequency. Clap is the most frequent sexually transmitted disease in
Germany.
The bacterium is sensitive to temperature fluctuations and out drying, it
is only short-termly therefore over-viable outside the human body. The prolonged
gestation is made by direct mucus contact, as a rule by an unprotected sexual
intercourse. Infected mothers also can infect her children at the birth. The
consequence is a suppurative bandage skin inflammation which can lead to the
loss of sight in the worst case.
One can most effectively protect himself from the infection by the use of
condoms. One can fall ill to gonorrhea repeatedly since the body doesn't develop
any immunity against gonococcen.
Symptoms
The first symptoms can appear a couple of days after the infection. These
are different with men and women. Depending on species of the sexual intercourse
it comes to an infection of the mucosas at the sexual organs, in the anal area
or at the mouth.
The urethra ignites in conjunction with a yellow green discharge at the men
with pains at the urination. The foreskin can be reddened and swollen up. The
disease goes, however, at every fifth man without symptoms. Gonorrhea can pass
these on to its partners without knowing it. If the disease remains untreated,
the bacteria can spread in the urine and sex ways. The consequences are inflammations
of the prostate and the epididymises. In addition, it can too scarred changes
and adhesions come, these be able to lead to the sterility. For appropriate
sexual practices the pharynx or the rectum can ignite.
With women the troubles are milder in the initial phase. The inflammation
of the urethra and the cervix often remains unnoticed. A burning at the urination
and a discharge are regarded as not unusual. Sometimes the labia are inflamed,
too. The disease goes at approximately the half of the infected women without
symptoms. These can pass gonorrhea on to partners of their without knowing
it. It can come to very painful inflammations in the oviduct in an advanced
stage of the disease. One about one gonorrhea can to the adhesion of the oviducts
do it and ovaries come, in turn what can lead to the sterility as a consequence
for some time untreated.
If the disease isn't treated, then being able to the bacteria spread themselves
in rare cases at the two sexes in the bloodstream and therefore in the whole
body. The consequences are fevers, eyes and arthritises as well as exanthema.
Diagnosis
The pathogens can be proved by a smear with a microscopical examination. The
patients fallen ill with gonorrhea can in addition have themselves with other
diseases like syphilis, chlamydia or HIV infected. An examination for the diseases
just mentioned therefore recommends itself.
Therapy
The disease is treated with antibiotics. At early recognition and medical
treatment the prognosis is good, it, however, recommends itself a check-up.
The partner must be co-treated. In addition, sexual intercourse should be
renounced until the complete cure.
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