Gonorrhea is a serious sexually transmitted disease that can lead to infertility in both men and women. The symptoms and the onset of the disease start four days after the first infection. The symptoms in men include pus coming out of the penis, painful urination, and an inflammation of the tubes that connect to the prostrate. Women will experience pus in their vaginal discharge, painful urination, bleeding even when not menstruating, and, with the progression of the disease, pelvic inflammatory disease. The disease is transmitted orally, anally and through genital contact as well. If untreated, the bacteria responsible for gonorrhea will spread to other parts of the body as well.
Gonorrhea has been a disease that has been with humanity for some centuries and was until recently called “The clap”. There is a gender-skewed risk of infection from indulging in sexual relations with an infected host. Men have a 20 per cent chance of being infected after having sexual relations with an infected host while women have a 50 per cent chance of being infected by sexual relations with an infected host. Safe sex practices, especially the use of a condom, make one nearly completely safe from acquiring the disease though the possibility of infection from indulging in other kinds of sex can occur. In men, if gonorrhea is left untreated, the infection will spread to the storage area for sperm near the testicles called the epididymis, the prostate gland, and the urethra. This proximity to the sperm production centers is what causes sterility in men. In women, the complications can include the development of pelvic inflammatory disease, infertility, septic arthritis and can even cause a septic abortion.
Treating this condition, as with all bacterial infections, is done with the use of antibiotics. Penicillin is the weapon of choice against gonorrhea, though concoctions that are more potent are used like fluroquinones. It is worth noting the historical use of tetracycline as an antibiotic has now caused resistance to the drug and it is no longer used in the treatment of gonorrhea. As a home remedy, the best you can do is to use tea tree oil as a topical application to the vagina or as a douche. Men will have no such relief, as the infection is too deep for a topical application to work. Both sexes should increase the amount of garlic intake as this contains an antibiotic as well. Pain treatment can be done with the use of ginger and feverfew herbs.