Gonorrhea is a disease found in men and women who don't have symptoms.
If symptoms do occur, they may experience thick discharge with burning and frequency of urination.
This disease is spread through vaginal and oral sex.
Gonorrhea infects the individual's sensitive tissues of reproductive system.
The male can differ from the female if they have this disease (no symptoms.
) Nevertheless in them that do have symptoms they normally appear 2 to 5 days after infection.
Discomfort includes a burning sensation when peeing, or a white, yellow, or green discharge from the penis.
Gonorrhea can cause painful or swollen testicles.
For women the symptoms can be easily confused with a bladder or vaginal infection.
Typical signs include pain and burning feel when weeing, increased vaginal discharge, or vaginal bleeding between periods.
Women with gonorrhea are at risk of developing serious complications from the infection.
Symptoms of rectal infection in both genders may include discharge, anal itching, soreness, bleeding, or painful bowel movements.
Indications The indicators to Gonorrhea are very few which makes it all the more difficult to adjudicate it and so stop it from being transmitted from one to the other person through sex.
Symptoms are akin to Chlamydia so the two diseases are liable to be confused with each other.
A person suffering from Gonorrhea experiences unusual discharge, burning, pain during sexual activity, swelling, fever and other infections like women may have bleeding between periods.
Screening Persons with gonorrhea should also be screened for other STDs like syphilis.
Persons with gonorrhea should be tested for other STDs.
It is important to take all of the medication prescribed to cure gonorrhea.
Treatment Antibiotics will kill the gonorrhea bacteria, prevent further damage to the body, and prevent the spread of bacteria, but can not repair any damage already done.
Treatment and cure does not mean a person can not get infected again.
Antibiotics are used to treat gonorrhea.
Penicillin is usually not prescribed because many strains of gonorrhea have become resistant to penicillin.
Treatment should commence in initial stages to cure Gonorrhea.
Those who are pretty active in their sexual life should get check ups done on a regular basis to be on a safer side.