Neisseria gonorroea, a gram-negative diplococcus that affects both men and women, is the cause of the sexually transmitted disease known as gonorrhea. Gonorrhea typically affects the urethra, rectum, or throat, though it can also affect the cervix in females.
Babies of infected mothers can become infected during childbirth, and gonorrhea most frequently affects the eyes in infants. Gonorrhea is most commonly spread during vaginal, oral, or anal sex.
The best ways to avoid STIs are to avoid having sex altogether, use condoms while doing so, and maintain a mutually monogamous relationship.
Symptoms
Asymptomatic patients make up about 50% of all patients, but some do not.
Gonorrhea affecting the genital tract
Men who have contracted gonorrhea may exhibit the following symptoms:
- Painful urination
- discharge that resembles a pustule coming from the penis
- One testicle may be painful or swollen.
The following are indications that a woman has contracted gonorrhea:
- Increased vaginal discharge
- Painful urination
- bleeding from the vagina after sex, for example, between periods
- Abdominal or pelvic pain
Gonorrhea at other sites in the body
The following body regions are also susceptible to gonorrhea:
- Rectum.anal itching, rectal discharge that resembles pus, blotches of bright red blood on toilet paper, and bowel movements requiring effort.
- Eyes.one or both eyes may experience pain, light sensitivity, and pus-like discharge.
- Throat.throat discomfort and enlarged neck lymph nodes.
- Joints.(septic arthritis), the affected joints may be very painful, especially when moving, warm, red, and swollen.
Causes
The bacteria that causes gonorrhea, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, is most frequently transferred from one person to another during sexual contact, such as oral, anal, or vaginal intercourse.
Risk factors
Men who have sex with infected men and sexually active women under 25 are more likely to contract gonorrhea than healthy men.
The following additional elements can raise risk:
- acquiring a new mate
- being with a partner for sex who has additional partners
- a multiple-sex relationship
- having experienced gonorrhea or another STD
Complications
Gonorrhea that is left untreated can result in serious complications like:
Infertility in women.
Infertility in men.
Increased risk of HIV/AIDS.
Complications in babies.
Prevention
To reduce gonorrhea risk:
Use condom
Avoid sex with miltiple partners.
Don’t have sex with someone who appears to have a sexually transmitted infection.
HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT
Medorrhinum
Very effective for treating gonorrhea, which is characterized by urethral inflammation, burning pain while urinating, an unpleasant odor in the urine, thin fluid mixed with white mucus or yellow purulent discharge that appears from the urethra in males, and thick, acrid vaginal discharge with a fishy odor in females.
2. Cannabis Sativa
Males with burning, smarting pain in the urethra when urinating, a constant urge to urinate, and red, swollen, inflamed glans should take this medication for gonorrhea, which can present with either watery mucus or purulent discharge from the urethra.
3. Nitric Acid
Very effective in treating gonorrhea in men with yellow-green discharge from the urethra, as well as discharge that is blood stained, intense pain during urination, marked itching in the urethra, swollen, red prepuce, and painful, swollen, and tender testicles.
4. Rhododendron
Very effective for treating gonorrhea in males with swollen, painful testicles. There is thin discharge from the urethra. There is tearing, pressing, sticking pain in the testicle that is worse on sitting and better by motion.
8. Sepia
Useful for pain and bearing down sensation in the pelvic area. Also indicated to treat a complaint of painful coition in females. There is bleeding from the vagina after coition. Useful for gonorrhea in females with greenish vaginal discharges, profuse discharge that occurs primarily after urinating, which causes itching of the vulva and vagina along with burning pain.
9. Kreosote
Useful for treating gonorrhea in females with yellow vaginal discharges that are corrosive and acrid in nature, causing intense itching and having an offensive odor. There is also a feeling of weakness, especially in the legs, and a frequent urge to urinate.
10. Natrum Mur
Useful for profuse vaginal discharge along with weakness. Useful for acrid,greenish or transparent, watery discharge. Useful for gonorrhea in females to manage complaint of painful clitoral area with burning and smarting sensation in the vagina during intercourse.
11. Sabina
Most effective for treating gonorrhea in women who have heavy periods.
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