Trichomoniasis (also known as - trichomoniasis) - a disease, sexually transmitted pathogen that is a trichomonad (Trichomonas vaginalis). When ingested, it affects the human vagina in women and the urethra, seminal vesicles and prostate gland (prostatitis) in men.
The incubation period ranges from trichomoniasis several days to several months (see the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases after casual relationships). The primary focus of inflammation is always located in the urethra, causing urethritis. The main symptoms in men include:
foamy gray, light selection
burning in the urethra, as well as itching of the glans penis
unpleasant sensation when urinating
in the semen may be an impurity of blood (gemospermiya)
The most characteristic symptoms in women:
frothy yellow
pain during intercourse, and after urination
redness and itching of the genital organs
After three or four weeks, if not to the treatment, trichomoniasis becomes chronic, with constant flowing remissions and exacerbations, which can be caused pereohlozhneniem, excessive intake of alcohol, too sexually active. Trichomonas infection of the urethra extends to other organs of the urogenital system, causing chronic prostatitis, orchitis, epididymitis, vezikulita, inflammation of the bladder and kidneys, and infertility.
If trichomoniasis on genital ulcers may form and erosion. Depending on the duration of the disease, as well as the severity of symptoms distinguished:
fresh infection that can occur acutely, subacutely, or torpidly
chronic (after infection has been more than two months), which is characterized by torpid course
trihomonadonositelstvo, in which symptoms are absent
Treatment is given only after the confirmation of the diagnosis by laboratory methods of research. Often, along with the pathogens detected trichomoniasis and other infections, sexually transmitted infections: chlamydia, mycoplasma, gonococcus, etc.