What is gonorrhea?

  Gonorrhea is the abbreviation for gonococcal urethritis, which is transmitted mainly through sexual transmission, but also through contact with contaminated objects.  The majority of gonorrhea patients, are due to unclean sex and the onset of indirect infection only occupies a fairly small percentage, gonorrhea is very dangerous to health, easily lead to a variety of complications, short-term can cause frequent urination, urinary urgency, painful urination or acute urinary retention, with the development of the disease, gonococcus will follow the urethra upstream, invading the prostate, posterior urethra, seminal vesicles and epididymis, and then lead to prostatitis, posterior urethritis If the disease is not treated in time, it will inevitably cause generalized infection of the reproductive system.  It is also easy to cause local inflammation, and can also be disseminated through the bloodstream, causing arthritis, endocarditis, meningitis, bacteremia, and in serious cases, can cause sterility and even blindness, in order to avoid this series of hazards, gonorrhea patients must timely treatment, effective, gonococcus will be long-term hidden in the urethral glands, urethral crypt, etc., so that the course of the disease becomes chronic, increasing the difficulty of treatment and the chance of recurrence.  Compared to other STDs, the incubation period of gonorrhea is generally short, ranging from 1-10 days, with an average of 3-5 days. Any patient who has a history of extramarital sexual intercourse within the last 10 days by himself or his spouse, the following situation should be highly suspected of having gonorrhea: men suddenly have pain in the urethra when urinating, an increase in the number of urination, redness, swelling and pain in the urethral orifice and a large amount of yellowish-white discharge in recent days, pus outflow will be more when pressing the root and middle part of the penis by hand, and yellow pus scabs can be seen on the underwear.  So can not send dangerous sex, so as not to affect the feelings of the couple, if you can not get treatment in time, there are serious disease hazards, when the symptoms of early genitourinary system, it is recommended that both parties go to the hospital at the same time to receive examination cumulative treatment.