Dr. BS Nguyen Dinh Lien – Head of the Department of Nephrology, Urology and Orthopedics, Hospital E, said that the doctor just received a young man for examination and treatment due to gonorrhea.
A young man in Hanoi recounted that during the last Tet holiday, he went to an early spring class meeting and “crossed the line” with his ex-girlfriend in the same class but did not use a condom. A few days following the class meeting, the patient showed symptoms of painful urination, pus discharge, and pain in the penis, so he went to the hospital for examination.
Through examination and testing, the doctor discovered that the patient’s urethral fluid had gonorrhea bacteria, diagnosed urethritis, gonorrhea infection.
Commenting on this case, Doctor Lien said that the cause of the disease was unsafe sex. Currently, the patient is being treated with high-dose antibiotics, and must abstain from sex until completely cured.
If gonorrhea is not detected and treated in time, it can be dangerous to health. (Illustration)
According to Dr. Lien, gonorrhea, also known as gonococcal infection, is caused by a bacteria that causes urogenital infections, which are transmitted sexually. This bacterium is spherical, always paired like a coffee bean, is gram-negative, and is located inside and outside of leukocytes. After being infected with gonorrhea, depending on the virulence and concentration of bacteria, the incubation period varies, which can be 2 days, 5 days, 1 week or even 2 weeks.
Symptoms include heat, burning, and itching along the urinary tract, which increases when urinating. There is painful and burning urination that makes the patient feel pain and fear when urinating. This is followed by a discharge of pus in the urinary tract.
“The disease has the ability to spread very early from the time of incubation, without symptoms. Therefore, when infected with gonorrhea, even if there are no symptoms, but if you have sex with your wife or partner, the risk of spreading is very fast, especially it can spread exponentially if you have sex with many people and are unfaithful.” Doctor Lien warned.
According to Dr. Lien, it is an alarming fact that the increasing number of patients with sexually transmitted diseases is due to the lifestyle and unsafe sex of many people today. Of which, gonorrhea alone accounts for more than 80 million new cases each year worldwide, of which the incidence is 0.7% in men and 0.9% in women.
Worth mentioning, with gonorrhea, if it is not detected and treated in time, it will leave many consequences, especially when the bacteria spread to the blood and other parts of the body such as painful swollen joints, affecting the eyes. eye sight. Pregnant women infected with gonorrhea can transmit the disease to their children, greatly affecting the physical and intellectual development of children.
This expert recommends, anyone who has unprotected sex, has symptoms of pain, discharge, and purulent urine should be examined and treated early. To prevent the disease, the best way is to have safe sex by using a condom, in addition to being faithful to one wife, one husband or one partner.
