Gonorrhea in men in modern medicine is not so difficult to treat, but it is dangerous because it can make a man infertile in a fairly short time. Therefore, it is necessary to consult a doctor in the near future after the alleged infection, which will allow you to quickly take action and no longer worry.
Men should even more worry not about their health, but about the health of a regular girlfriend or wife, because in women this disease leads to more serious consequences. Symptoms of gonorrhea in men include several signs by which you may suspect gonorrhea in yourself. This is a frequent desire to empty the bladder, sharp pain or burning sensation during urination, as well as thick yellow discharge from the penis. This disease was not always taken seriously in the past, and this often led to a loss of men's ability to become fathers. Symptoms of gonorrhea in men appear 2-7 days after infection and cause discomfort.
How to distinguish gonorrhea from commonplace cystitis? With cystitis, the temperature rises slightly, with gonorrhea it is normal. Cystitis does not appear immediately, and the symptoms gradually increase, while gonorrhea sharply arises without preliminary “bells”. With gonorrhea, often yellow discharge appears in the morning, with cystitis there is no special discharge at all. With gonorrhea, urine is excreted in sufficient quantities, but it can be so painful for a man to urinate that he tries to do it as little as possible, with cystitis, urine is excreted in small portions at a time, and there is no such excruciating pain.
Diagnosis of gonorrhea in men is most often carried out by examining a smear, but this method is not the most reliable. If health is important to you, and there is reason to suspect gonorrhea, insist on a polymerase chain reaction, which allows you to get ultra-precise results. True, this analysis is more expensive.
If you still have gonorrhea, do not delay the treatment with your doctor in the long box. The fact is that the patient is not only threatened with infertility, inflammatory processes of the eyes, lesions of large joints and narrowing of the urethra are also possible , which can make the process of urination almost impossible. This is all extremely unpleasant and significantly reduces the quality of life.
How is gonorrhea treated? Only antibiotics, do not trust the advertising of folk remedies. There are three main drugs that are used to treat. However, they do not always help, some gonococci, pathogens, have developed resistance to antibiotics. Therefore, a good doctor will check their antibiotic resistance in your particular case. To do this, the gonococci extracted from the material of your analyzes will be tested for sensitivity to drugs, and only then will they begin treatment itself. That is why it is impossible to treat gonorrhea on your own - you can try to cure the disease with improper means, remove some of the unpleasant manifestations, but the disease will not be defeated. Symptoms of gonorrhea in men can be smoothed out with an inappropriate antibiotic, but pathogens will remain, which means that all threats to the disease will also remain.
How much gonorrhea is treated? Sometimes one injection or tablets that take one day are enough. It is necessary to treat several partners at once, that is, all who have had contact with the diseased. However, such treatment does not guarantee full recovery. In order to exclude that gonococci remained in the body, the doctor uses special methods called provocations. In practice, this can be a shot of a gonovacine in the shoulder, the introduction of active substances into the urethra or a request to drink a lot of fluid. If the patient is still sick, the next day the tests will give a positive result, that is, confirm that the person is still unwell. Then the doctor works with another antibiotic before the cure.
Symptoms of gonorrhea in men are quite bright, unlike women, so at the first sign, look for a good doctor who works officially - and do not waste time. And try to exclude accidental sexual contacts for the future - after all, the probability of contracting by other means than sexual contact is no more than 1%.