Ureaplasma urealyticum positive symptoms female

If female friends find symptoms of positive ureaplasma during physical examination, they should go for further examination to prevent their condition from becoming more serious. In fact, many female friends have abnormal test results because they suffer from related gynecological diseases, but few people will have abnormal reactions immediately after the test results come out. There will be a certain incubation period.

The incubation period is 1-3 weeks. The typical acute symptoms are similar to those of other non-gonococcal genitourinary tract infections, including urethral stinging, varying degrees of urgency and frequency of urination, and stinging during urination, especially when the urine is more concentrated. The urethral opening is slightly red and swollen, and the secretions are thin, small in amount, and are serous or purulent. The urethra needs to be squeezed hard to see the secretions overflow. There is often a small amount of mucous secretions at the urethral opening in the morning, or only a scab membrane seals the opening, or a dirty crotch is seen.

The subacute stage is often accompanied by prostate infection. Patients often experience distension and pain in the perineum, soreness in the waist, discomfort in the inner thighs, or a tingling sensation radiating from the perineum to the inner thighs when doing anal lifting maneuvers.

Female patients often suffer from reproductive system inflammation that spreads from the cervix. Most patients have no obvious subjective symptoms, and a few severe patients have a feeling of vaginal prolapse. When the infection spreads to the urethra, frequent urination and urgency are the main symptoms that attract the patient's attention. The infection is confined to the cervix, manifested by increased leucorrhea, turbidity, cervical edema, congestion or surface erosion. When the infection spreads to the urethra, symptoms include redness and congestion of the urethral opening. A small amount of secretions may overflow from the urethra when the urethra is squeezed, but tenderness rarely occurs.

Ureaplasma urealyticum (M.urealyticum) is the only species in the genus Ureaplasma and is named because it requires urea to grow. It needs cholesterol and urea to grow. The decomposition of urea is its metabolic characteristic, producing ammonia nitrogen, which increases the pH of the culture medium and leads to its own death. In 1954, Shepard first isolated T-strain mycoplasma (tiny colony mycoplasma), also known as micro-strain, from patients with non-gonococcal urethritis. In 1974, the International Mycoplasma Association (IOM) named it Ureaplasma urealyticum (Uu) based on its ability to decompose urea by producing urease. It has at least 16 serotypes.