Gonorrhea Disease Prevention

Gonorrhea Disease Prevention:

The World Health Organization analyzed data from 77 countries and found each year; about 78 million people worldwide are infected with gonorrhea. According to the CDC, at least 2 million people in the U.S. become infected with bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics, and at least 23,000 people die each year as a direct result of those infections. Men have a 20% risk of getting the infection from a single act of vaginal intercourse with an infected woman. Women have a 60–80% risk of getting the infection from a single act of vaginal intercourse with an infected man.

28% woman can pass on the gaonorrhea infection to her unborn or newborn baby.

Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) disease caused by the bacteria named Neisseria gonorrhea.

Affected men may have burning when he pee, the urge to pee more than usual, testicular pain, testicular swelling, discharging white or yellow, or green pus from his penis, Swelling or redness at the opening of your penis.

Affected women may have burning with urination, vaginal discharge, vaginal bleeding between periods, or pain in the lowest part of her abdomen and pelvis. Complications in women include pelvic inflammatory disease and in men include inflammation of the epididymis.

You have to take antibiotic dose properly according to your doctor suggestion to cure form gonorrhea. To prevent antibiotic resistance gonorrhea you should test again after remedy to be confirming whether the gonorrhea bacteria still or not in your body.

“Prevention Is Better Than Cure”. You have to follow some precaution to prevent Gonorrhea disease-

☛1) Using barrier methods such as condoms for sexual behavior.

☛2) Knowing a sexually transmitted infection disease (STI) history from your partner and strongly encouraging they be tested and treated before intercourse.

☛3) Reducing the number of sexual partners.

☛4) Sexual monogamy relationship in which an individual has only one uninfected partner during their life time .

☛5) Babies born while the mother is infected can get eye infections that may lead to blindness. So pregnant women should be treated for gonorrhea during pregnancy .