Gonorrhea
-- is a contagious disease that can be contracted through sexual intercourse with a person with gonorrhea. The dropsy is also passed by mothers with this disease to their babies during birth because the droplet is transmitted through water or body fluids. Whether you are male or female, you can be infected with gonorrhea. This infection is easily transmitted especially to people who have multiple sexual partners. Gonorrhea is caused by a bacterium called Neisseria gonorrhoeae. This germ grows very quickly and reproduces in a person's mucus membranes. This germ likes the warm temperature of the uterus and urinary tract of people. It also lives in the mouth, throat and buttocks.
What are the symptoms of gonorrhea?
--How do you know if you have been infected with gonorrhea? Not everyone with gonorrhea will have symptoms, so it is often difficult to know when to see a doctor. By the time symptoms appear, you may have been infected for ten days. Symptoms of gonorrhea can show up within two to 30 days after you become infected. The following are the common symptoms that you may be infected with gonorrhea: Symptoms of gonorrhea in women :
Something come out of your vagina with a white or greenish liquid
Painful abdomen and hip Your urination is very painful
You experience conjunctivitis or sore eyes
You are bleeding even though you are not menstruating
You bleed after having sex
Inflammation of the vagina
Sore throat if you have oral sex
==== Such symptoms are sometimes not so severe in some women that they are neglected in some cases. Many of the women assume that the discharge that comes out of them is caused by a yeast infection, and assume that it can be treated by over the conter medications. Keep in mind that strange discharges coming out of the vagina can be symptoms of serious diseases, so it is necessary to consult your trusted doctor for it to be diagnosed and treated.
Symptoms of gonorrhea in men :
You come out of a white or greenish liquid in your vagina
Your urination is very painful
Sore throat if you have oral sex
Painful or swollen testicles
====Symptoms of gonorrhea in men usually appear 14 days after contracting the disease.