Q:
I am sorry to write that I have visited a prostitute recently and
got infected with ganaria. But within one week it has
gone off and perfectly normal now. Unfortunately my wife is now infected
now. She experiences unbearable burning sensation while passing urine,
and she says she noticed some yellowish thick fluid coming out of
her organ. Immediately I understood it is ganaria. Will it vanish
on its own as in my case? Or should she consult a doctor. She is suffering
a lot.
-LKP,
Vanasthalipuam
Ans:
From the symptoms you describe you both appear to be having gonorrhoea
and this warrants immediate consultation with a person who specialized
in treating sexually transmitted diseases (a venereologist, he is
called. There are quite a number of them in the city you live). Even
though many people, like you, whose symptoms have subsided on their
own, think that the disease itself has disappeared, gonorrhoea is
a not a self-curing disease. One of its characteristics is to withdraw
physical signs and symptoms temporarily , only to reappear more vigorously
later. Alternatively it may do extensive damage to the internal reproductive
organs and can also be associated with other body organs as well in
due course, if and only if left untreated. There are innumerable men
and women whose fertility was adversely affected because of gonorrhoea.
The best part of gonorrhoea is that it can be easily treated with
modern antibiotics and every infected person can be completely cured
of the disease if treated early. The worse part is that more than
half of men and women infected with gonorrheal bacterium are free
of outward symptoms and think they are healthy. In reality they are
not! They are the ones who actively transmit the harmful bacterium
to their partners. These are the most important reasons why you should
see the doc immediately. You may also note that the gonorrheal infection
is frequently accompanied by other infective organisms such as Chlamydia,
which can be equally damaging, especially to women. Lastly, you may
wish to know that prostitutes are nowadays referred to with a more
accepted term commercial sex worker (CSW) or simply, sex
worker.