Use A Condom Or Suffer From NonGonococcal Urethritis
STDs are often transmitted through direct contact with the skin even if condoms are used. This can happen because bacterial and viral germs, which cause STDs like papilloma, Chlamydia, herpes and syphilis, do not affect only one part of the body. They can infect any place in the genital area in the case of both men and women.
NonGonococcal urethritis is an infection of the urethra set off by the same pathogens that cause gonorrhoea. This infection is generally caused by a microbe called Chlamydia. This disease affects men more frequently because it is seldom that a woman’s urethra gets infected during an intercourse. Men in the ages of 15-30, who have multiple sex partners, are the ones more at risk of this infection. More often than not, the disease happens because of unprotected sex.
It rarely occurs out of other causes. The symptoms associated to this disease involve burning sensations and smarting while urinating and sometimes a slight and usually clean leakage from the urethra. Symptoms emerge usually in 1 to 5 weeks since the infection and some people never develop obvious symptoms.
A person can spread the disease from the moment of the infection until the moment of cure. After cure, the disease can occur again. If it is not treated, nongonococcal urethritis can lead to testicles inflammation and prostate infection. You can take into consideration that the use of condoms, washing your genital area after an intercourse or less partners are the best measures taken in order to avoid this affection. To continue, according to a study published in the magazine Journal of Infectious Diseases by Australian researchers of the Sexual health Center in Melbourne, oral sex favors the occurrence of nongonococcal urethritis, this disease that can affect both men and women. It can lead to inflammatory pelvic diseases, infertility, and chronic pelvic pain. In about half of the cases, the cause of nongonococcal urethritis cause cannot be determined.
The Chlamydia micro-organism causes the disease in 30-50% of the cases; while in 10-20% of the occurrences, mycoplasma genitalium sets off the disease. Antibiotics have been proven effective in curing this disease.
On March 2004 and March 2005 the Australian researchers in Melbourne conducted a study wherein men previously infected with nongonococcal urethritis participated in. Additionally 307 volunteers who had no symptoms also participated. They all answered a questionnaire regarding their sexual activities and samples of urine were taken to be tested for pathogens that cause the disease.
Chlamydia infections were the most common both in the case of homosexual and heterosexual men (22% respectively 15%) and much more common than the control group. Chlamydia and Mycoplasma genitalium infections have been associated first with unprotected vaginal sex or oral sex. Therefore, if you pay enough attention to your fantasies or sex habits you can prevent this disease.
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