Trichomoniasis (Trichomonoz ), disease of urino-genital organs, caused by sheathed trikhomonadami (Trichomonas vaginalis), by the simplest unicellular organisms from the class flagellate, that have unique distinctive morphological signs. Trichomoniasis is one of the most common venereal diseases (yearly in the world it is recorded more than 250 mln. patients shityu trikhomoniazom).
Way of infection by trikhomonadami - predominantly sexual, most frequently with the random sexual connections infection by trikhomonozom by everyday way (with the carrying of strange linen, use of general towel, in the bath so forth.) it occurs rarely, although trikhomonada preserves viability in the flow 25- it is hour in the urine, the sperm, in the water, moist linen.
In the men of trikhomonady they parasitize in the urethra, in the prostate gland (prostate). In the men of trikhomoniaz it more frequently flows asymptomatically, they can be the carriers of disease in the course of the entire life.
In the women of trikhomonady strike urethra, the glands and the thresholds of sheath, the channel of the neck of womb. Clinical picture in women is usually more expressed, than in men.
Symptoms of trichomoniasis
Symptoms of trichomoniasis in the men:
- discomfort with the urination;
- whitish isolations from the urethra;
- with the defeat of prostate gland - symptoms of prostatitis.
Symptoms of trichomoniasis in the women:
- itch and the reddening of external sex organs;
- abundant foam grayish-yellow isolations from the sheath;
- pain with the urination;
- pain with the sexual contacts.
Treatment of trichomoniasis
The treatment of trichomoniasis is individual and is based on thorough anamnesis and comprehensive clinical inspection.
The treatment of trichomoniasis lasts from several days to 3 weeks. The necessary condition for the successful treatment of trichomoniasis is the simultaneity of treatment for both husbands, even when trikhomonady in one of them are not discovered.
Izlechennost' from urogenital'nogo trichomoniasis is established with the aid of bacterioscopic and bacteriological studies of smears from the urethra, secret of prostate gland and according to the data of uretroskopii.