Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Sex is a popular subject; it is on television, in advertisements, in magazines, and practically everywhere. One very serious side effect of an increase of sexual activity is the risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases. They affect more than twelve million Americans each year. Sexually transmitted diseases are becoming common and widely spread throughout Americans because of unprotected sex, permiscuity, and multiple sex partners. Some of the most commonly found sexually transmitted diseases are gonorrhea, chlamydia, HIV/AIDS, and syphilis.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates there are six hundred-fifty thousand new infections of gonorrhea in the United States each year. (Ultimate Guide: Gonorrhea par.2) Gonorrhea is a very common bacterial sexually transmitted disease. Gonorrhea is caused by the bacteria Neisseria gonorrhoeae, and is also one of the oldest known human diseases. In the second century A.D., the Greek physician Galer first gave it the name Gonorrhea, which means, "flow of seed" in Greek, as the discharge from the penis (actually pus) was thought to be semen. (Jackson 68)
Gonorrhea can be transmitted by vaginal, anal, or oral sex. According to James K. Jackson, men often will have a burning discomfort at the tip of the penis during urination and a discharge of pus from the urethal opening, after being contaminated with gonorrhea. In women symptoms usually include increased vaginal discharge, painful or difficult urination, pain during or following intercourse, and bleeding between periods. (Ultimate Guide: Gonorrhea par.4) Gonorrhea can be easily detected by urine, or by taking tissue samples from the infected area. Gonorrhea can...
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In today’s society the risk of being diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease increases each year. Sexually transmitted diseases are affecting more of the younger generation, more people are having unprotected sex and more sex partners. They don’t realize the risk they 're putting themselves in, many people think that getting a sexually transmitted disease will never happen but they 're wrong. Gonorrhea is one a common sexually transmitted diseases that can be found in men and women. When a woman is pregnant and gets diagnosed with gonorrhea, there is a higher chance of the disease getting to the baby. Anybody that is sexually active and has had multiple partners is at risk of being diagnosed with gonorrhea. When you are sexually active
(Urinary Tract Infection in Adults) some infections can lead to serious problems, such as kidney infections. Chronic kidney infections—infections that recur or last a long time—can cause permanent damage, including kidney scars, poor kidney function, high blood pressure Urinary tract infections is highly associated with women and them having recurring infection, UTIs are caused by usually bacteria that pass in the urethra and the bladder. Majority of the time, your body immune system can get rid of these bacteria according to (Mayo clinic) the bacteria are Escherichia coli (E. coli) a type of bacteria normally found in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract other bacteria are staphylococcus, proteus, klebsiella, enterococcus, and pseudomonas. According to (webMD) Some bladder infections in both men and women have been linked to two sexually transmitted organisms: chlamydia trachomatis and mycoplasma. Another sexually transmitted organism, trichomonas, can cause similar
To start off, Non-gonococcal Urethritis (NGU) refers to an infection from the tube that runs from your bladder through the penis in men or the labia in women which passes the urethra. Normally, it is caused by gonorrhea but mostly chlamydia that is a sexually transmitted disease. There are multiple different ways how Non-gonococcal Urethritis is caused. An infection with chlamydia is half the case of NGU. Chlamydia is a bacterium type of germ that may be contacted threw sexual intercourse with an infected person. Perhaps, it can be passed down in to and out of vaginal, anal, or oral sex. There are other bacterial viruses that can be the cause of this disease. No cause can be found in 3 to maybe 10 cases. Sexually transmitted infections cannot be recognized by tests if it is not shown. Also, it is not attainable to know which cases are caused by an infection and the ones that are not.
Sexually active men and women of all races, ages, and socioeconomic backgrounds are susceptible to the gonococcal infection. However, out of the infected population, the CDC states 80% of the females and 10% of the males are asymptomatic. After incubation of five to seven days, males tend to display symptoms of swelling in the urethra, painful and more frequent urination, and abnormal penal discharge of a thick yellow exudate (pus). Similarly, females experience chronic abdominal pain, inflammation of the cervix, painful urination, bleeding or irregular menstrual cycles, fever and increased vaginal yellow discharge. Females have a higher risk factor of 60-90% of being infected after a single sexual encounter. Both sexes experience sore throat in oral infections if they are not asymptomatic. However, this response is most commonly mistaken as a viral sore throat.
Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted infection. The infection is caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhea. It is described by a discharge and a burning sensation while urinating. Gonorrhoea is not typically a dangerous infection unless left untreated. In this case, the infection can cause pelvic inflammatory diseases and put the person at a high risk of infertility. (Rathus, Nevid, Fichner-Rathus, & McKay, 2015, p.360)
Sexual transmitted diseases can be troublesome for everybody in life. A sexual transmitted disease (STD) or sexual transmitted infection (STI) is a disease or infection that is transmitted through any kind of sexual behavior. Some can be spread through the transfer of blood (Boudewyns, & Paquin, 3). It is especially problematic for students in college. Social and health problems tend to occur when young adults, in their undergraduate years in college, have unprotected sexual intercourse (Murray and Miller 1). College students are what will be making up society in the future; this is why STDs are such a serious threat. STDs do not discriminate. It can affect anybody. They need to be educated about STDs so they can be prevented. Unfortunately, it seems more college students are more concerned about the prevention of pregnancy, than of STDs (Murray and Miller 3). This is clearly a problem between the correlation of STDs and college students.
Sexually Transmitted Diseases or STDs are an increasing problem in today’s society. There are many of them and the number is increasing in the youth of the nation. According to a 2000 poll, 18.9 million cases were reported, and of that number, 9.1 million occurred in people between the ages of 15 to 24. America needs to recognize this problem more fully and find a cure for it. Abstinence is one way to help, but what people need to realize is that it is not working.
Some symptoms of urinary tract infection may include burning sensation when passing urine, the need to urinate frequently - this may lead to urinary incontinence or even cause bedwetting problems, cloudy urine and urine with offensive odor. Others are pain in the loin, fever, and chills, which are indications of upper infection of kidneys or ureters.
STIs are currently a huge burden of disease and adversely effect the reproductive health of people. It is recognized that risk of getting HIV infection increases manifold in people with current or prior STIs. STIs are linked to HIV transmission as common sexual behaviour put persons at the risk of infection which directly increases the probability of getting and transmitting HIV.2
Signs and symptoms vary for males and females. Men often exhibit symptoms two to five days after intercourse. Common symptoms are pain or swelling of testicles, frequent painful urination and yellowish-white discharge from the penis. Women tend to be asymptomatic but may experience pain during urination, yellow vaginal discharge and bleeding in between periods Males and females may have anal infections, symptoms present may be rectal itching, discharge and pain during defecation. The infection may also be in the mouth and throat, which are rare, that typically are
STDs have hugely increased in the United States. That should be taken seriously just like how people take young adults getting pregnant and criminal activates serious. The varying growth of different types of STDs, STD-related stigma, and prevention of STDs among young adults is a problem. Numerous young adults should take advantage of the free safe sex education class that schools offer to the students. STDs are a factor in this economy that everyone should look at and be careful about. Before doing any type of action, a young adult should consider their consequences from their actions.
The disease starts with primary syphilis, which can still be cured quite easily. Its first symptom is a small, painless sore called a chancre, which can be found on the genitals, in or around the anus or even on the mouth. These sores are also what helps spread the disease. It is spread through any type of sex including anal sex and oral sex. Then after three to six weeks it will
Sexually Transmitted Diseases Sexually Transmitted Diseases STDs, a.k.a venereal diseases, infectious diseases passed from one person to another during sexual contact. STDs are the most common infections known. More than 12 million people in the United States, including 3 million teenagers, are infected with STDs every year. The United States has the highest STD rate in the world about one in ten Americans will contract an STD during his or her lifetime. People who do not know they are infected risk infecting their sexual partners and, in some cases, their unborn children. If left untreated, these diseases may cause pain or may destroy a woman's ability to have children. Some STDs can be cured with a single dose of antibiotics, but AIDS cannot be cured. Those most at risk for contracting STDs are people who have unprotected sex—without using a condom, people who have multiple partners, and people whose sex partners are drug users who share needles. Static’s show that Americans between the ages of 16 and 24 are most likely of catching STDs than older adults, because younger people usually have multiple sexual partners than an older person in a long-term relationship. Teenagers may be embarrassed to tell their sexual partners they are infected Teenagers may also be embarrassed or unable to seek medical attention for STDs. This means that they only more likely to pass the disease to other young people and have a greater risk of suffering the long-term consequences of untreated STDs. STDs are transmitted by infectious bacteria, viruses, parasites, fungi, and single-celled organisms called protozoa that live in warm, moist parts of the body, like the genital area, mouth, and throat. Most STDs are spread while having sex, but oral sex can also spread disease. Some STDs are passed from a mother to her child while pregnant, when the disease enters the baby's bloodstream, during childbirth as the baby passes through the birth canal, or after birth, when the baby drinks infected breast milk. AIDS can be transmitted by blood contact such as open wounds, between people who share infected needles or received through an injection of infected blood. Some people believe that STDs can be transmitted through shaking hands or other casual contact, or through contact with inanimate objects such as clothing or toilet seats, but they can’t. Chlamydeous, is from trachoma is bacterium, is the most commonly transmitted STD in the United States.