Gonorrhea: Overview, symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment and prevention

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Gonorrhea
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Gonorrhea

• Gonorrhea, is a sexually transmitted infection
  caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
  Sexually transmitted infections are infections
  that can be transferred from one person to
  another through any type of sexual contact.
  Sexual contact is not related only to sexual
  intercourse (vaginal-anal) but it may also
  include any oral-genital contact. Most of the
  STDs can be cured, both some severe STDs such as
  HIV or Hepatitis B cannot be cured so easily.
• Gonorrhea is one of the oldest known sexually
  transmitted diseases. Among individuals who are
  infected with gonorrhea, 50 to 70 also will be
  infected with chlamydia, another type of bacteria
  that causes another STD.
• Gonorrhea cannot be transmitted from toilet seats
  or door handles. The bacterium that causes
  gonorrhea requires very specific conditions for
  growth and reproduction.
• Gonorrhea bacteria it live on the skin of the
  hands, arms, or legs. It survives only on moist
  surfaces within the body such as throat, eyes and
  is found most commonly in the vagina, and, more
  commonly, the cervix.

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Symptoms of Gonorrhea

• Most of women and men infected with gonorrhea
  don't have any noticeable symptoms, most of the
  symptoms occur within 14 days of transmission.
• Symptoms in men may include
• Painful sensation during urination
• Greater frequency or urgency of urination
• A pus-like discharge (or drip) from the penis
  (white, yellow, beige, or greenish)
• Swelling or redness at the opening of the penis
• Swelling or pain in the testicles
• A persistent sore throat

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Symptoms of Gonorrhea
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• Symptoms in women may include
• Discharge from the vagina (watery, creamy, or
  slightly green)
• Pain or burning sensation while urinating
• The need to urinate more frequently
• Heavier periods or spotting
• Sore throat
• Pain upon engaging in sexual intercourse
• Sharp pain in the lower abdomen
• Fever

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Cause of Gonorrhea

• Gonorrhea has only one cause, it is only
  transferred from one person to another during
  sexual intercourse and is affected by a bacterial
  Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection. Previous
  infection doesn't confer immunity, a person who
  is infected above, can also get infection again
  for the next time.

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Diagnosis of Gonorrhea

• Test done for the diagnosis of Gonorrhea may
  include
• Testing for gonorrhea is done by swabbing the
  infected site (rectum, throat, cervix) and
  identifying the bacteria in the laboratory either
  through culturing of the material from the swab
  (growing the bacteria) or identification of the
  genetic material from the bacteria.
• Newer tests to diagnose gonorrhea involve the use
  of DNA probes or amplification techniques (for
  example, polymerase chain reaction, or PCR) to
  identify the genetic material of the bacteria.

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Treatments of Gonorrhea

• Gonorrhea is usually treated with an antibiotic
  injection of Ceftriaxone one time intramuscularly
  or a single dose of Azithromycin by mouth.
• Treatment should always include medication that
  will treat chlamydia for example, azithromycin
  (Zithromax, Zmax)or doxycycline (Vibramycin,
  Oracea, Adoxa, Atridox and others) as well as
  gonorrhea, because gonorrhea and chlamydia
  frequently exist together in the same person.

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• Complications of untreated Gonorrhea
• Gonorrhea should be treated in a person at the
  correct time, as not treated gonorrhea in women
  may lead to the gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum
  (blindness through infection) in infants born to
  such mothers. Most of the 28 of child are known
  to have such complication from birth born to such
  mothers.

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• Other more complication from un-treated
  gonorrhea may include
• For men
• Inflammation of the epididymis
• Inflammation of the prostate gland
• Inflammation of the urethra
• For women it may include
• Pelvic inflammatory disease
• Inflammation of the tissue surrounding the liver
• A rare complication associated with
  Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome, septic arthritis in
  the fingers, wrists, toes, and ankle, septic
  abortion, chorioamnionitis during pregnancy,
  neonatal or adult blindness from conjunctivitis
  and infertility

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