Mycoplasmosis - disease, infection occurs mainly through sexual contact. Pathogen - mycoplasma - an intracellular bacterium belonging to the family of Mycoplasma-taceae.
Most often, mycoplasmosis affects women with various diseases of the genitourinary system: vaginitis, cervicitis, cystitis, etc. There are cases when detected with the mycoplasma pathogens and other sexually transmitted diseases (ureaplasmosis, chlamydia, trichomoniasis, gonorrhea, etc.).
The incubation period ranges from 3 to 5 days after infection. If you had a random relationship with the patient, you should get an STD prevention to minimize the risk of developing the disease. Men primarily affected the urethra, bladder, lacunar moves, seminal vesicles, epididymis, testes, prostate. In women with mycoplasmosis is often inflammation of the urethra, vagina, paraurethral passages, the cervix of the uterus. The disease can occur with a variety of clinical manifestations, depending on the duration of the disease, the degree of destruction of the urogenital tract pathogen, patient immune status.
The main symptoms are:
allocation of scarce men, heavy - for women
burning and itching of genitals
drawing pain in the perineum and scrotum, groin, an increase in the epididymis (males)
pain during intercourse (women) or after sex
In some cases, asymptomatic, and the patient becomes aware of the presence of mycoplasma at the time of diagnosis of other diseases, so often during the acute form is omitted, and the patient comes to the doctor with a chronic form. This is especially dangerous for pregnant women (see reproductive tract infections and pregnancy). During pregnancy, acute infection that can lead to various complications of:
spontaneous abortion
missed abortion
premature birth
infection of the fetus
postpartum complications
Given that the intracellular microorganism can penetrate through the placenta, infecting the child is in the process of birth during the passage of the affected birth canal. The main complication of postpartum endometritis in a woman is, which requires additional treatment.
Without timely treatment of mycoplasmosis may be a cause of urethritis, pyelonephritis, prostatitis, arthritis, septicemia (blood poisoning). The treatment is administered after laboratory confirmation of diagnosis and sensitivity testing to antibiotics.