Gonorrhea: Males More Prone than Women

Gonorrhea is a form of STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease). It is also known as the clap. Though it is called as a sexually transmitted disease, sex is not the main or the only factor responsible for the spread of gonorrhea. Then how does gonorrhea spread?

HOW GONORRHEA SPREADS?

Gonorrhea, however, does spread when people resort to typical sexual acts. For instance, the gays usually resort to anal sex. The anus as many other moist parts of the human body are habitats of the bacterium — Neisseria gonorrhoeae — that causes gonorrhea. The other parts are the mouth, throat, and even the mouth and eyes among others.

The bacterium gets transferred from an infected person to another through the mixture of the body fluids present in the aforementioned portions of the body. The sexual partners should therefore practice safe sex. The condom is the best means to obviate all possibilities of not contracting any STIs or STDs.

MALES MORE VULNERABLE TO GONORRHEA THAN WOMEN

Contrary to popular belief that gonorrhea is typical ailment affecting the females, studies and researches have proved that males are more vulnerable to gonorrhea than females.

TYPICAL GONORRHEAL SYMPTOMS

The typical symptoms or signs of gonorrhea vary among males and females.

Notably, the characteristic signs of gonorrheal infection are more prominent among the males than the females.

In the latter case, the gonorrheal symptoms are not only milder but also very secretive. In fact, the symptoms may not be evident at all. In such situations, the patient will not even know that she has contracted the infection or the disease.

It has dangerous implications. If she keeps on having heterosexual contacts, she would be infecting other partners as well. Each of the newly infected persons will similarly pass on the infection (STI) or the disease (STD) to other people. Thus, STIs and STDs are fast spreading across the globe.

And in many cases, the symptoms reveal themselves only after the STIs have already taken deep roots. Medications at that stage can only arrest the spread of the infection. Any damage that has already been caused to the patient’s body, however, cannot be cured.

Moreover, most of the gonorrheal symptoms are misinterpreted as pointing to only the common ailments like cold or flu.

Besides, the typically gonorrheal signs or symptoms are comparatively milder among women than men. The women affected by gonorrhea, in most of the cases, do not at all demonstrate any symptom of the ailment. That is why the problem gets compounded.

In the first place, the patient comes to know that she is suffering from gonorrhea at a very advanced stage when it becomes quite difficult to check its growth.

Second, just because neither she nor her sexual partner knows about the reality, she passes on the ailment to her sexual partner(s).

Many a time, the gonorrhea symptoms are also mistaken to be a vaginal or bladder infection.