Mycoplasmosis

MYCOPLASMOSIS is a sexually transmitted disease caused by mycoplasma.

Mycoplasmosis most often affects women who survived gynecological diseases, sexually transmitted infections, and those who lead promiscuous way of life.

Mycoplasmosis incubation period is from 4 days to one month on the average. During this period the disease does not declare itself but the patient becomes an infection carrier and can infect other people. After the incubation period the patient experiences urethritis symptoms (burning pain in the urethra during urination, mucinous discharge, more often in the morning). If the infection occurred during oral sex, the patient experiences tonsillitis symptoms.

If an infected person does not begin treatment, urethritis symptoms disappear by themselves in a few days. Unfortunately mycoplasmosis does not end at this. By this moment the infection is usually already settled in the urethra walls and prostate for men and in vagina for women. Starting from this moment the infection will wait for the loss of local immunity to declare itself at full strength.

Mycoplasma infection is pathogenic for man and can cause the following diseases:

    * pyelonephritis

    * urethritis

    * prostatitis

    * arthritis

    * sepsis

    * pregnancy and fetus pathologies

    * puerperal endometritis

Mycoplasmosis during pregnancy can cause various complications up to miscarriage. Mycoplasma does not affect the fetus through the placenta but the child can be infected while passing through maternal passages of the infected mother during labor. In this case congenital mycoplasmosis affects child’s lungs and causes frequent inflammations of pharynx, nose, and lungs.