Sunday, September 23, 2012

NON-GONOCOCCAL URETHRITIS

What carabao is this?  It is the most common sexually transmitted disease. not gonorrhea, not syphilis, not any other STD but this. Most often it is not recognized because most patients take self-medication as soon as they feel pain on urination or they can see discharges unto their panties or underwear. More often than not a history of recent sexual intercourse had happened as early as 24 hrs ago. Most of these patients do not consult a physician until they see this discharge.They bear the pain on urination. They bear the discomfort or the abnormality in the perineum which oftentimes not considered pain. What is more alarming is women do not feel any symptom not even discharges until several days mostly 5-7 days when they had another sex partner to transmit the infection.
Because of rampant self-medication of ordinary antibiotics ( amoxycillin- ampicillin), this ordinary infection does not respond to any classic drug like VIBRAMYCIN. We have to employ 3rd generation antibiotics such as cefuroxime and  macrolides such as moxifloxacin.

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