Trichomoniasis is a parasitic STD caused by a single single celled organisms known as Trichomonas vaginalis. It is a curable STD, but it is still very common. It is actually the most common curable STD in young women. CDC estimates that there are more than 7 million new cases each year.
Trichomoniasis affects both men and women. In women, causes a vaginal infection is known as bovis. In the urethra, the tube will infect men inside the penis which carries semen and urine. Although men can only contract trichomoniasis from women, women can get the disease from both men and other women with whom they have sexual contact.
Most men with trichomoniasis do not have any symptoms. When they do their symptoms are generally mild and include: discomfort in penis pain on urination/ejaculation discharge
Symptoms in women are usually more severe than those seen in men, and generally occur within 1-4 weeks after the first infection. They include: Frothy, colored discharge vaginal smell strong pain at intercourse/urination Irritation and itching in the vagina and the surrounding area.
In order to detect trichomoniasis, doctors take a swab the vagina or urethra and then look at it under a microscope. This process is called a wet mount, and can also be used to detect yeast infections and bacterial vaginosis. Because not all women with trichomoniasis will have visible organisms on a wet mount, can doctors also culture vaginal secretions in a specific medium.
Trichomoniasis can also cause irritation of the cervix, which can be spotted by a doctor makes a gynecological exam.
Trichomoniasis treatment generally with an oral single dose of the supplier. Women can recognize this as one of the drug, which is also used to treat bacterial vaginosis.
It is important that your sexual partners in trichomoniasis is processed at the same time you are, and that you refrain from unprotected sex until your symptoms are gone, otherwise you would just transmit disease and back.
Condoms have been shown to reduce the risk of infection from trichomoniasis and should be used consistently, if either partner is infectious.Women who have sex with women should consider using an obstacle in the vulva to the vulva contact, and must also be aware that the parasite can be transmitted by both fingers and sex toys. Appropriate use of condoms and gloves may make transmission between women less likely.
If you have trichomoniasis you are more susceptible to infection by HIV, which causes AIDS. If you are an HIV positive woman, trichomoniasis makes it more likely that you will pass HIV to your sexual partners.
Trichomoniasis can also have a negative influence on the outcome of a pregnancy. Pregnant women infected with the parasite are more likely to have a pre-term birth. They are also more likely to feed a low birth weight baby.
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