The Causes and Treatment of Gonorrhea Infection

Gonorrhea infection can happen because of the bacterium Neisseria gonorrheoae. The bacterium can infected because of several causes. The infection can be got from the sexual intercourse. The bacterium is spread through vaginal fluids or semen. It can be spread because people do not use safety in doing intercourse. A person can be infected when their partner has been infected first. Then, they who do oral sex have the risk to be infected. Besides that, sharing sex toys is not safe and can be the cause. The bacterium can be infected when people use finger to touch the private organs because it can be passed from hand to hand. Physical contact also can stimulate the infection. The mother, who is pregnant, can transmit the bacterium to the baby.

People can know that they are infected by Gonorrhea infection from the urine test. Otherwise, it can be seen from the test which uses genital fluids. It is usually done when they have suspicious symptoms. The test is done for them to have proper treatment to heal the infection.

Early treatment which given for the Gonorrhea infection is not to complicated and is very effective. People who infected can use antibiotic for the cure. They can take Ciprofloxacin or Levaquin or Tequin in single dose. Then, for a couple, the treatment should be done by all of them. It is done as prevention. The one who suffers will not pass the one who do not suffers will not be infected.

However, some people do not really aware with the Gonorrhea infection. The untreated infection will cause bad effect for sufferers. For the women, the untreated infection can give pelvic pain for a long term. Then, it can cause sterility and infertility. It happens because the eggs from the ovaries are blocked in the tubes. Besides that, the ectopic pregnancy can happen. For men, the untreated infection only causes painful inflammation. Those cases should make people aware to heal the infection.

Two Methods of Treatment for Trichomoniasis

Trichomoniasis is one of the STD which caused by protozoan, this infection happens in vagina and urethral issue. Then, it mostly infects women but there is still a chance for men to be infected. Men may get the infection which transmitted by women. It happens during sex which happens without protection. This infection cannot be seen without certain kind of equipment. Because of that, they who get infection sometimes is too late knowing about it.

The treatment for Trichomoniasis can be done at home. The home based method treatment is not totally done at home with natural remedy. It is done after sufferers have diagnosed by the infection and also got prescription from doctor. The home based treatment is usually used antibiotic treatment. However, it is not suggested because the method cannot be proved scientifically. Mostly, the home treatment which use antibiotic happens under doctor’s supervision. It is done to make the treatment do properly based on the level of the infection. The antibiotic is given to prevent other infections such as syphilis, HIV, gonorrhea, and Chlamydia.

Other method of the home based treatment is alternative medication. The alternative medication is considered as not an effective treatment. Maybe, people can combine the treatment to get the fast result of the treatment. While doing the home based treatment they can use the alternative treatment which usually used water bath with certain additional. The warm water bath can be added with yogurt and vinegar. It is said to kill the protozoan.

Other treatment which can be use for the Trichomoniasis infection is medical care. The drugs which given is the metronidazole or tinidazole in single dose. But, the metronisazole cannot be taken by pregnant women in first trimester. People who take those drugs as treatment is not allowed to drink alcohol. They will vomit and fell abdominal pain when they do that.

As the STD infection, Trichomoniasis sufferers should involve their partner in the treatment. It will help them to be diagnosed and preventing the re-infected. Then, it is important to have safe sex and hygiene lifestyle to prevent being infected and spread the infection.

Some Kinds of Treatment for Syphilis

As the one of the STD with staging symptoms, Syphilis is recommended to be cure in early stages. It is because the infection which caused by bacterium is not too bad at that stage. It will make the cure is not too heavy. The risk of growing infection can be prevented. To cure totally the infection can be done with some kinds of treatment which mostly related to the medication.

In the early stage, the consideration of the treatment for Syphilis uses penicillin. However, not all people are able to take penicillin for curing. They can use other kinds of penicillin which is suitable with the body and condition. Then, pregnant women also cannot take it. Therefore, the use of penicillin cannot become the standard. Taking penicillin is also part of the next step of the treatment. It is called antibiotic therapy. This phase is done before the syphilis bacterium infects more. The use of penicillin is divided into three parts. The alternative in using penicillin therapy is done for the people who have allergic with penicillin. Sufferers of Syphilis can use Tetracycline, erythromycin, and ceftriaxone. It is done to create additional problem in the body. The second antibiotic theraphy is Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction. This kind of therapy is done to cure certain kind of symptom like headache, fever, and even the syphilis lesion. The other therapy is procaine toxicity. However, the effect is not too good even though it is a mild one. The patients may have hallucination after taking the therapy.

Other treatment is surgery. It cannot be done in the early stage. In all of medical cases, surgery is done for the last effort. In the Syphilis treatment, it is done in the third stage of the Syphilis symptoms. Then, it will be done when sufferers have complication. One of the examples is that when the patients need to replace the aortic valve.

Preventing of Syphilis is other kind of treatment. This purpose of the treatment is to prevent the Syphilis limit bacterium to spread. In this phase, mostly suffers are suggested to have safe sex. Then, sharing needles is not allowed. This treatment can be done before or after the Syphilis is infected a person. It can be part of the health education.

People who have rare case of Syphilis can do consultation. It is done to make them have proper treatment. The consultation should not be done only with one physician. They who suffer should consult with dermatologist, vascular surgeon, ophthalmologist, or neurologist. Then, sufferers will know the exact condition of the infection and the body also.

The last treatment which recommended is long term monitoring. It is done for the patients who already have bad infection of the Syphilis and also as the follow up. Every stage of the symptoms will require different kind of the treatment. People who suffer the first and the second stage is needed to get VDRL testing at 3, 6, and 12 months after treatment after the treatment. Sufferers with latent symptoms will need two years monitoring. Then, they who suffer the benign tertiary or cardiovascular syphilis will need to take the monitoring for the rest of the life. Neurosyphilis will need six months in monitoring. The last, the pregnant women with syphilis will need the monitoring only in pregnancy duration.