Treatment of mycoplasmas in women should begin as early as possible. This is a rather dangerous and unpleasant ailment, which in no case can not be started. In this article, we presented material on the symptoms, methods of treatment and prevention of this disease.
Features of the disease
Treatment of mycoplasmas in women should be started as early as possible. More than 40 types of all kinds of mycoplasmas are known to modern science. The real danger to humans is only a few. These are mycoplasma hominis, genitalia, ureaplasma urealitikum and mycoplasma pneumonia.
The listed infections can lead to various problems, therefore, at the first symptoms of this ailment, you should immediately consult a doctor.
This disease is detected in more than half of patients suffering from chronic diseases of the genitourinary system. Moreover, it is also observed in 5-15% of healthy women, which indicates that the infection in some cases is completely asymptomatic.
If you do not deal with the treatment of mycoplasmas in women, this is fraught with the appearance of various inflammatory diseases, changes in the structure of spermatozoa, which lead to male infertility, pathologies during pregnancy, female infertility. Pathologies during pregnancy in women, who are more likely to suffer from this ailment, can manifest themselves very different. This may be a miscarriage, non-developing pregnancy, premature birth, fever, premature discharge of amniotic fluid. As a result, the child may be infected already at birth, among other consequences of this infection, it is worth noting the likelihood of pneumonia, eye damage in the baby. In newborn girls with mycoplasmas, organs of the genitourinary system can be affected.
Infection pathways
What is the most effective treatment for mycoplasmas in women? This question worries everyone who is faced with this unpleasant ailment. Mycoplasmosis is an infectious disease that is predominantly sexually transmitted. Its causative agent is the smallest microorganism known to science today. This is called Mycoplasma genitalium.
This disease affects not only women, but also men. However, according to statistics, the fair sex, it appears twice as often. Although the path of infection with this infection is predominantly sexual, there are cases of infection in the domestic way. For example, through towels, underwear, gynecological instruments. This explains where this ailment comes from even very young girls who have never had sex. Here are the main causes of mycoplasmas in women. About the treatment (a photo of the bacteria is presented in the article) of this ailment, we will consider in detail the material in this article.
Another way of infection can be called vertical. In this case, the infection is transmitted from mother to newborn baby when he passes through the birth canal.
Symptoms
To begin timely treatment of mycoplasmas hominis in women, the symptoms of the disease must be well known in advance. At the first signs of an illness, you should immediately consult a doctor for help. If you start intensive therapy on time, you will be able to do without practically any consequences for the body.
Scanty, colorless discharge and itching of varying intensity in the external genitalia and vagina are the main symptoms of mycoplasmas in women. Treatment with drugs helps not only to eliminate unpleasant signs that cause discomfort, but also to eliminate the very cause of the disease. The main thing is to do everything on time.
The incubation period of this disease varies from 4 to 55 days. However, in most cases it is approximately two weeks. One of the main dangers of mycoplasma is that it often proceeds in a latent or completely worn out form, which is why it is possible to determine exactly when the infection occurred and for what reason is simply not possible.
Conventionally, all the symptoms of this infection can be divided into two groups. The first occur when the external genital organs are affected, and the second after the infection penetrates the internal organs of the female genitourinary system.
Let's start with the external symptoms of mycoplasmas in women. According to reviews, the treatment started in a timely manner allows you to effectively get rid of the infection. It is important not to postpone the visit to the doctor until later, you should consult a specialist at the first sign of a serious problem.
When parasites are affected by the external genitalia, they mainly concentrate on the mucous membrane of the urethra and vagina. In this case, as a rule, patients do not have any complaints or discomfort at all. Only sometimes a mild itching of the external genitalia can appear, you should also pay attention to the occurrence of colorless, scarce secretions from the genital tract. All this may indicate the presence of infection in your body. However, more often than not, such minor symptoms simply go unheeded. A woman does not turn to trifles for the gynecologist as she thinks. If treatment of mycoplasmas genitalia is not carried out in women, the disease goes into a chronic stage.
Chronic stage
It is much more difficult to cope with a disease in a chronic form. In addition, even in this case, mycoplasmosis can be asymptomatic for a sufficiently long time.
From time to time there are periods of exacerbations in which discharge from the genital tract increases significantly, a characteristic severe itching of the external genitalia appears. As a rule, this condition is associated with a decrease in immunity. It is severe discomfort during such conditions that makes the patient seek help from a doctor. In this case, the effective treatment of mycoplasmas in women is already very problematic, since the infection is severely neglected.
The defeat of the internal genital organs
If the infection affects the internal genital organs, symptoms appear almost immediately. This is burning, pain in the lower abdomen, copious discharge from the genital tract, in some cases they can be purulent, severe itching appears during urination.
These signs are often accompanied by chills, fever, general weakness of the body. In addition, in women, the menstrual cycle is almost immediately disturbed. Intermenstrual bleeding may occur.
Mycoplasmosis is a rather insidious disease. Its peculiarity lies in the fact that an asymptomatic infection can occur for even several years. All this time, a woman may not suspect at all that she is a carrier of a dangerous disease, pass it on to her sexual partners during sex. Often the symptoms do not appear, and it is possible to find out about the disease during the examination, when gynecologists try to establish the causes of miscarriage of pregnancy or infertility.
Treatment methods
The main thing that should be remembered about this infection: treatment of mycoplasmas of genitalia in women should be mandatory, even if the disease does not manifest itself in any way and there are no symptoms.
Perhaps the greatest danger to the infection is for pregnant women, since the fetus in the womb can catch it. Often this leads to various malformations, premature births, miscarriages and even stillbirths.
Treatment of infection must be comprehensive. It is worth remembering that therapy is required not only for the patient herself, but also for all her partners with whom she has been in contact recently. In the scheme of effective treatment of mycoplasmosis, local and general drugs are used that have a direct effect not only on mycoplasmas, but also on immunomodulators.
The main group of drugs for the treatment of this disease is antibiotics. However, most doctors prefer macrolides, tetracycline drugs, as well as fluoroquinolam. Your gynecologist should choose a specific medicine, which will be guided by the individual characteristics of the patient’s health status, as well as the results of complex analyzes. Antibiotics should be taken strictly according to the prescribed scheme. The course of treatment is from 7 to 10 days.
As a local remedy, candles with metronidazole content and douching preparations are also used. For example, Chlorhexidine or Miramistin.
It is important to simultaneously prevent the development of a fungal infection in the body, which often appears when antibiotics are taken. For this, antifungal drugs are prescribed. One of the most common drugs is Fluconazole.
Side effects
It is worth noting that taking antibiotics in this case is also accompanied by such a problem as intestinal dysbiosis. Therefore, to prevent this ailment, you should drink eubiotics, that is, medicines containing bifidobacteria and lactobacilli, for example, Normoflorin, Linex, Bifidumbacterin. After a powerful local antibacterial therapy, the patient will most likely need to restore the vaginal microflora. For this, candles with lactic acid bacteria are suitable. For example, "Lactobecterin" go "Acylact."
All this can be called side effects in the medical treatment of this disease. Moreover, the above issues are not limited to.
Due to the fact that immunity is reduced with mycoplasmosis, patients require special therapy aimed at strengthening immunity. For this purpose, patients are prescribed drugs based on natural immunomodulators (lemongrass, purple coneflower, eleutherococcus, ginseng), as well as multivitamin complexes (Vitrum, Biomax, Alphabet).
Throughout the entire period of treatment, the patient is strongly recommended to refrain from any sexual contact, in extreme cases, use condoms, the so-called barrier methods of contraception. In this situation, only these protection methods will be effective. Also, it is forbidden to drink alcohol for the period of taking antibacterial drugs.
When the course of therapy is completed, you should go for a comprehensive follow-up examination, which will assess how effective the treatment has been. For this, the gynecologist takes a smear 10 days after completion of systemic antibiotics. The same procedure should be repeated three more times in the middle of each of the subsequent menstrual cycles. Only if the results of all these bacteriological studies are negative can it be argued that the patient completely got rid of this infection.
What to do during pregnancy?
There is still no consensus on how to treat mycoplasmas in pregnant women. Some doctors consider these microorganisms to be pathogenic, so they are strongly advised to take a course of antibiotics. Others refer them to the commensals of the genitourinary tract, so they do not see this as necessary.
In solving this issue, you should fully rely on your gynecologist, who will be able to make an informed decision on the result of a full examination, weighing all the pros and cons.
If you still decide to treat the infection, then this will be complicated by the fact that during pregnancy it is forbidden to take tetracycline antibiotics. Therefore, in such situations, most often prescribed "Azithromycin", "Erythromycin", "Rovamycin" or "Clindamycin" for 10 days. In addition, immunomodulators, priiotics, and vitamin complexes should also be taken. In reviews, women who have tested themselves on such therapy, note its effectiveness.
Ureaplasmosis
One of the varieties of this infection is ureaplasmosis. This is a special type of mycoplasma, which got its name because of the ability to split urea. This leads to the same inflammatory process in the genitourinary system. Interestingly, this inflammation does not always occur. Pathogens provoke it - chlamydia, gonococcus, gardnerella, Trichomonas, herpes.
Judging by the reviews, treatment of ureaplasmas and mycoplasmas in women is considered effective only in the early stages. In this case, it is important to restore the microflora of the organs of the genitourinary system, as well as to eliminate the so-called mixed infection. The main feature of ureaplasmas is that they remain completely insensitive to some antibacterial drugs. For example, to "Cephalosporin" and "Penicillin."
According to reviews, the treatment of ureaplasmas and mycoplasmas in women can be considered successful when taking macrolides, tetracyclines, immunomodulators and lincosamides. The effectiveness of the use of antifungal and antiprotozoal drugs in therapy is also noted.
Another similar infection is called gardnerellosis. This is a conditionally pathogenic microorganism that provokes bacterial vaginosis. As a result of this pathology, vaginal dysbiosis begins. Sexual contact provokes the disease, the duration of the incubation period is from 4 to 10 days.
It is worth noting that these bacteria are always present in the vagina. While they are in small quantities, no problems arise. Only their significant increase causes bacterial vaginosis. As a rule, unprotected sex contributes to this. Also, the normal microflora of the vagina is disturbed when taking birth control drugs, douching. All this reduces the number of lactobacilli, increasing the population of gardnerella, which begin to pose a real danger.
Treatment of ureaplasmas, mycoplasmas and gardnerella in women is considered the most effective at a time when the infection has not yet flowed into a chronic form. In the case of gardnerells, the basis of therapy is antibacterial drugs and antibiotics. In most cases, doctors prescribe vaginal suppositories (Ampicillin and Clindamycin).
Pregnant women must undergo the course of treatment under the supervision of their doctor. This is what underlies the treatment of ureaplasmas, mycoplasmas and gardnerellas in women.
Folk recipes
In some cases, with these diseases, recipes for alternative medicine are effective. But it should be noted that they can help only in the early stages of the disease. In addition, you should first consult with your gynecologist, who will tell you whether the treatment at home mycoplasma hominis in women or other similar infections will be effective.
The most commonly used anti-inflammatory drugs. It is necessary to take two tablespoons of St. John's wort leaves and four tablespoons of flowers of Lobaznik. Then these ingredients should be mixed together, and after four tablespoons of the raw material, pour 800 ml of water. Healing broth is boiled for 10 minutes, then let it brew for a couple of hours and filter. It should be taken one glass three times a day before meals.
Another method of treating mycoplasmas hominis in women at home involves douching with medicinal herbs. In this case, a pine uterus and oak bark are used. Two tablespoons of bark are mixed with one tablespoon of the uterus, and then poured with boiling water (enough one and a half glasses). Healing means need to be insisted for half an hour. The finished infusion should be filtered, and then used for douching the vagina twice a day. Note that this method causes numerous disputes, some doubt its safety, but healers actively use it.