Contents:
- Medical Video: Vaginal Yeast Infection | What are Vaginal Yeast Infection Symptoms & Causes?
- Most causes of venereal disease are bacteria
- What are the bacteria that cause venereal disease?
- 1. Chlamydia trachomatis causes chlamydia
- 2. Neisseria gonorrhae causes gonorrhea or gonorrhea
- 3. Treponema pallidum causes syphilis or lion king
- How to protect the vagina from bacteria that cause venereal disease?
Medical Video: Vaginal Yeast Infection | What are Vaginal Yeast Infection Symptoms & Causes?
As you already know, venereal disease is a disease that attacks a person's sex organs. This type of disease is usually transmitted by sexual activity, so it is called a sexually transmitted disease. The effects vary, from starting itching, pain to causing infertility or infertility.
Of course this is very unpleasant for everyone who experiences it, given the very importance of genitals for humans for reproduction. However, do you know what causes venereal disease?
Most causes of venereal disease are bacteria
There are various types of organisms that are the cause of venereal disease, namely fungi, viruses, and bacteria.
However, in general, bacteria are the main cause that attacks a person's sex so that it can cause disease. Bacteria that cause venereal disease vary, causing different symptoms.
As you know, bacteria are the smallest organisms that can only be seen through a microscope. Bacteria will attack the body's cells so that they can double their numbers. The cells that are attacked will lose their function and cause symptoms and signs of disease in the genital tissue.
What are the bacteria that cause venereal disease?
1. Chlamydia trachomatis causes chlamydia
Chlamydia trachomatis causes disease chlamydia. Chlamydia trachomatis belongs to the genus Chlamydia and has an irregular shape. He needs a host in other living cells, so that these bacteria cannot live outside the body of living things. This is why these bacteria like to attack column epithelial cells in the cervix (cervix), urethra, and rectum in humans.
This bacterium infects 131 million people globally per year. This number is only a rough estimate, because chlamydia generally does not produce typical symptoms. This causes people not to know whether they have been infected with this disease or not.
Even if symptoms arise, they are often misunderstood as other common diseases such as genital pain, vaginal discharge or discharge from the penis.
Other symptoms that can be caused by chlamydia are fever, vaginal or testicular swelling, lower abdominal pain, abnormal vaginal fluid, abnormal discharge from the penis, pain when pee, and pain during intercourse.
Remarkably, chlamydia not only infects the genitals, but can also infect the eye and cause inflammation of the lining of the eye (conjunctivitis). This occurs if the infected vaginal or sperm fluid is affected by the eye.
These bacteria can only be infected through sex and not because of other reasons, for example using public toilets or using towels of people who are infected.
2. Neisseria gonorrhae causes gonorrhea or gonorrhea
Neisseria gonorrhae is a bacterium that causes disease gonorrhea or commonly called gonorrhea. These bacteria include the type of gram-negative bacteria that are shaped kokus or round. Usually, these bacteria attach to two-two so called diplococcus.
These bacteria can easily multiply on mucous membranes such as in the mouth, throat and anus and in genital organs such as the cervix, fallopian tubes and uterus.
People with gonorrhea can have signs and symptoms such as pain or heat sensation when urinating, gonorrhea, sore throat, pain in the genitals to swelling or redness in the male pee hole.
3. Treponema pallidum causes syphilis or lion king
Treponema pallidum is a kind of spiral negative gram bacteria. This bacterium causes disease syphilis or commonly called the lion king. Like the other two types of bacteria that cause sexually transmitted diseases, these bacteria are also gram negative bacteria. The bacterium that causes syphilis was discovered initially in 1912 in Japan by Hideyo Noguchi.
Syphilis or the lion king has long been feared by people, because its widespread effects can even cause permanent damage to vital organs such as the brain and heart. In addition, syphilis can also be transmitted from mother to child in her womb. This is called congenital syphilis.
The initial symptoms of this disease are ulcers in the genitals, anus, or mouth, but not painful. These ulcers will usually heal within five weeks. Then fever, headache, own pain, sore throat, swollen lymph glands in the armpits, thighs or neck appear a rash on the penis, vagina or mouth and palms and soles of the feet. This stage can last for years.
Then, over the next 10 to 40 years, syphilis does not produce typical symptoms until damage to the brain and heart arises. Of course this can be fatal if not detected at the beginning. How to prevent it immediately consult a doctor if a rash appears in your groin area.
How to protect the vagina from bacteria that cause venereal disease?
Bacteria can live and develop in the vagina. Your vagina is a place that is suitable for bacteria because of its humidity.
One way to prevent the transmission of bacteria that causes venereal disease is to always have sex when your partner uses a condom. Condoms are the only contraceptive that can prevent transmission of sexually transmitted diseases.
It is also important to keep your genital area clean after sex.
The vagina is a place that supports the proliferation of bacteria, especially during menstruation. Therefore, you can use a female cleanser containing povidone iodine to clean the outside of the vagina. With the content of Povidone-Iodine 10%, this liquid effectively kills bacteria that cause venereal disease.
