Not solving the problem of gonorrhea with antibiotic treatment
What treatment methods can we use to treat gonorrhea? Is antibiotic treatment useful for this condition and may it show resistance to this type of treatment? Gonorrhea is the most common complication caused by unprotected sex.
After the discovery of a highly antibiotic-resistant species in the city of Leeds in England, which has been dubbed “supergonorrhea”, Sally Davis has sent a letter to all family doctors about the correct and accurate prescription of antibiotics, warning that new cases Antibiotic resistance continues to increase, and therefore there is a risk that gonorrhea will become an incurable disease, and therefore it is very important not to use ineffective treatment.
Currently, gonorrhea is treated with the simultaneous administration of two antibiotics, i.e. with the injection of Ceftriaxone and the oral intake of Azithromycin. have became. A new strain found in Leeds is also resistant to azithromycin, which has worried health officials.
According to this report, gonorrhea becoming resistant to antibiotics is not unique to Britain and reports from different parts of the world indicate that gonorrhea is rapidly becoming resistant to antibiotics.
The indiscriminate and inappropriate prescription of antibiotics has been raised as one of the most important medical problems in the world in recent years, and antibiotic resistance is increasing in the world so much that some people have considered it to be more dangerous than terrorism.
The World Health Organization has also considered the resistance of infections to antibiotics as a major global threat and has warned that the world has entered the “post-antibiotic” period, meaning that simple infections that were treatable for many years can now be fatal again. Last year, this organization warned about the resistance of gonorrhea to antibiotics.
Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted disease caused by a bacterium called Neisseria gonorrhoeae. The disease in men is symptomatic in almost all cases (90-95%), but transmission of germs to about half of women does not cause symptoms. It is said that gonorrhea is more common in young women under the age of 25. Untreated gonorrhea can cause urinary tract infections, infertility, and pelvic inflammatory disease (in women).
December 9, 1394 00:02
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