Post Date November, 16 2024
Gonorrhea is a venereal disease that many people are familiar with. It is the most common disease due to unclean contact.
What are the symptoms of gonorrhea?
1. Prostatitis
Acute prostatitis is caused by gonococcus entering the excretory duct and gland of the prostate, with fever
Symptoms of urinary tract infection such as chills, perineal pain, dysuria, etc. Prostate swelling and tenderness during examination. However, gonococcus is not a common cause of acute prostatitis. The prostate caused by gonococcus is mainly characterized by chronic pathological changes, with mild symptoms, perineal discomfort, penile pain, mouth phenomenon at the urethral orifice in the morning, gonorrhea balls in the urine, pus balls and lecithin reduction in the prostate massage fluid, gonococcus found in the coating and culture, and contact nodules of the prostate gland diagnosed by the anus.
2. Epididymitis
It usually occurs after acute urethritis, mostly unilateral. There are low fever, swelling and pain in the epididymis, reflex pain in the ipsilateral groin and lower abdomen, clear boundary between the initial and testicular, gradually unclear, testicular tenderness, swelling and severe tenderness. Urine is often cloudy. At the same time, there may be prostatitis and seminal vesiculitis.
3. Seminal vesiculitis
In acute cases, there are fever, frequent urination, urgency, pain in urination, turbid urine and blood. The rectal examination can touch the enlarged seminal vesicles and have severe tenderness. Chronic seminal vesiculitis generally has no symptoms. The rectal examination shows that the seminal vesicles are hard and have fibrosis.
4. Bulbar urethritis
It occurs in or around the perineum, with finger-size nodules, pain, acute suppurative rupture, pressure on the urethra, dysuria, fever and other systemic symptoms, and progress is slow.
5. Urethral stricture
Repeated occurrence may cause urethral stricture, and a few may cause vasoconstriction or obstruction, difficulty in urination, thinning of urinary line, and severe urinary accumulation. Secondary vas deferens stenosis, seminal vesicle cyst and infertility.
How to prevent gonorrhea?
1. Propagandize the knowledge of sexually transmitted diseases, advocate noble moral sentiments, prohibit whoring and prostitution, advocate self-purification, and oppose sexual freedom and sexual liberation.
2. If you have doubts about your sexual partners, the preventive use of antibiotics can reduce the risk of infection, and the use of condoms can also reduce the incidence rate of gonococcal infection.
3. In public baths, do not take a bath and advocate taking a shower.
4. After the disease, in order not to infect the spouse and others, the sexual partner must also be examined and treated at the same time.
5. Patients should pay attention to personal hygiene and isolation, and should not share the bed or bath with their families, children, especially girls.
6. Pay attention to isolation after illness and avoid sexual life before cure.
7. Wash your pudenda and hands often with soap, and do not wipe your eyes with hands with pus.
8. When a newborn is born, it passes through the vagina of a mother with gonorrhea, and the gonococcus invades the eyes, which will cause eye inflammation. In order to prevent the occurrence of neonatal ophthalmopathy, the newborn must use silver nitrate to prevent eye drops.
Nursing methods for daily gonorrhea
1. After the occurrence of gonorrhea in the family, people should sleep separately at ordinary times, and daily necessities should also be used separately, especially bath towels, toothbrushes, etc.
2. Gonorrhea patients should avoid overwork in their daily life, stay in bed properly, and avoid strenuous exercise. Drinking alcohol and eating stimulating food are strictly prohibited in life.
3. Couples should be treated together. The disease is highly contagious. When one of the couples is ill, the other should also be treated together.
4. Avoiding reinfection is also important for the care of gonorrhea patients. Gonorrhea is easy to recur, and dirty sex should be avoided at ordinary times.
