What should I do if I have urethritis?

When facing urethritis, treatment must be carried out actively, but it must also be correct and scientific. For some pathogens, medication must be used scientifically to avoid causing more adverse effects. At the same time, the course of treatment must be sufficient, and partners must be examined and treated together.

1. Targeted medication according to pathogens

In addition to the more familiar mycoplasma and chlamydia (the main infectious microorganisms), 10%-20% of urethritis can be caused by Trichomonas vaginalis, Candida albicans, Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus, yeast, anaerobic Gram-negative bacilli, etc. Therefore, the treatment of non-gonococcal gonorrhea should vary from person to person, and the medication should be determined according to the infecting microorganism.

2. Sufficient treatment course

Mycoplasma and Chlamydia are intracellular parasitic microorganisms that are not as sensitive to antibiotics as ordinary bacteria, so the duration of medication should be relatively long, generally about two weeks. It is best for patients not to buy medicines blindly on their own. This may cause pathogens to come into contact with the drugs without being killed, resulting in drug resistance, and the medicine will be ineffective next time.

3. It is best to use a single medication

The interactions between drugs are complex and varied. In general, no more than two drugs should be used simultaneously to treat nongonococcal urethritis unless synergistic or complementary effects are known between them. Because doing so is often harmful rather than beneficial. For example, if drugs have antagonistic effects on each other, it will reduce the efficacy, increase the cost of treatment, and increase the number of drug-resistant strains of pathogens, making further treatment more difficult.

4. Pay attention to the examination and treatment of sexual partners

For various reasons, some people contract sexually transmitted diseases but do not want to tell their families, so they also neglect the diagnosis and treatment of their sexual partners, resulting in repeated infections. This does not mean that the treatment is ineffective.

3. Pay attention to the body's disease resistance

Drug treatment requires the cooperation of the body's disease resistance to achieve better results. Drinking alcohol and continuing to have sex (even with condoms) during treatment will greatly reduce the effectiveness of the treatment, which is easy for some young people to overlook. In addition, there are also situations such as irregular pace of life, eating spicy hot pot and other foods, overwork, and chronic diseases.