Ureaplasma

How do you get ureaplasmosis?

Ureaplazmoz or mycoplasmosis - a disease transmitted sexually and is the group of bacteria called mycoplasma. His second name - ureaplazmoz, which became even more popular than the main, the disease was for the ability of some mycoplasmas to the splitting of urea, that is to ureolizu.

As already mentioned, ureaplasmosis sexually transmitted. We often hear the question "Can a person get ureaplasmosis in the pool, sauna, beach, etc." The answer to these questions is simple - yes, you can get anywhere, but the agent of the disease can get from one person to another only through sexual intercourse. Typically, mycoplasma are transmitted in the classic sexual intercourse without a condom and oral sex, but are also known cases of infection and anal sex.

There is only one non-sexual transmission of mycoplasma - a child may become infected from the mother during labor and delivery during the passage through the birth canal.

How does the disease?

The incubation period for mycoplasmosis an average of 4 days to a month. All the while, the disease does not give to know about myself, but people in this period becomes a carrier of infection and can infect other people. After the incubation period of infection in a patient develops symptoms of urethritis - burning and pain in the urethra during urination, and there are mucus, often in the mornings. If an infection occurred during oral sex, develops a sore throat with all the usual for her symptoms. In most cases, particularly in women, ureaplasmosis malosimptomno proceeds, and all manifestations of the disease expressed by so little, often sick people do not give them value.Especially for the stronger sex characteristic to tell yourself something like a "real muzhina would not worry about the bullshit", is this idea an excuse not to go to the doctor. But weakly manifested symptoms of the disease does not reflect all of its seriousness.

If the infected person begins to be treated, after several days of symptoms of urethritis go away, that is all the more reason to relax. But, unfortunately, ureaplasmosis does not end there. At this point, the infection usually settles firmly in the wall of the urethra, the prostate gland in muzhin and in the vagina and uterus in women. From this point the disease will only wait in the wings, that is, reduce local immunity to manifest itself in full force. The reason for this may be one of the situations koimi replete with difficult life of any person - hypothermia, considerable physical exertion, prolonged stress, colds or any inflammatory disease, etc. After this, men often develop prostatitis - an inflammation of the prostate with persistent trend in the spread of the inflammatory process in the seminal vesicles and testicles. Therefore, long-term untreated ureaplazmoz men often lead to secondary infertility. The woman developed coleitis (inflammation of the vagina), endometritis (inflammation of the uterine wall), somewhat less cystitis (bladder infection) and pyelonephritis (inflammation of the kidney tissue). At this stage of the disease can be treated much more difficult, because mycoplasma is securely "settled" in the body.

Often there are cases when, due to the low pathogenicity of pathogens from one sgorony and because of the good condition of the immune system with other mycoplasma long time (up to several years) do not manifest themselves. This situation is called the carriage of infection, and it represents a significant risk. A person may be unaware that he is hiding in the body ureaplasma, and that he is able to infect his favorite and his favorite. This way there are many situations that people write like this: "We have a few years married to each other do not change, and suddenly I found ureaplasma ..." Experience shows that many men are significantly more likely to explain such an adulterer rather than a consequence of too freely bachelor life. Furthermore, even not giving itself felt, Ureaplasma creates a suitable background for the development of other diseases, and people-carrier ureaplasmas much more susceptible to other infections, particularly sexually transmitted.

How do I know you are infected or not?

Diagnosis ureaplasmosis is not too much difficulty for modern medicine. The methods of rapid diagnosis can ispolzovatsya polymerase chain reaction. Material for diagnosis are the first selection, or scraping of the urethra, the secret of the prostate gland in men, swab from the vagina in women.

However, more important for the common man is the question of "when you need to see a doctor for diagnosis." The answer: turn to right after a suspicious sexual intercourse, or as soon as you find in their symptoms. At the same time, remember that nothing is perfect in this world is not, and all research results, especially negative, are given only with a certain probability. Therefore, for the ultimate confidence that you're healthy, you need to diagnose at least 2 times, preferably by different methods in different laboratories.