Nongonoccal Urethritis

Nongonococcal urethritis or more commonly known as NGU is an infection of the urethras which is often caused by Chlamydia. This is transmitted by touching your mouth, penis, vagina or anus, to someone else's penis, vagina or anus that is infected with NGU. This disease is symptomatic. It shows symptoms on its patients. The symptoms however, may be different with men and women. For men, symptoms like discharge from your penis, burning or pain when urinating and itching with irritation or tenderness around the opening of your penis may be experienced. For women, they may have symptoms like discharge from vagina, burning or pain when urinating, pain in the stomach area, bleeding from the vagina in between monthly periods, which may be a sign that NGU has become worse and turned into Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID).

NGU is a very much curable disease just like Chlamydia and gonorrhea. It may also be treated with antibiotic drugs. Just like the other STDs, if this is not detected early and untreated, severe health damages may be experienced by the patient. Such complications are infertility, low birth weight, early delivery and miscarriage for pregnant women and infections for the baby that was infected by the mother.

NGU, being curable, it can also be preventable. Some preventive measures are abstinence; the best way to avoid NGU or any sexually transmitted infection is to not have anal, vaginal or oral sex. Limiting one’s sex partners; having multiple or changing of sex partners may put one at high risk of acquiring the disease of your sex partners. And the use of condoms; protected sex can also be protection from diseases.

Aside from these, you may also be protected through STD testing. You may have you and your partner take an STD test. This way, you will both know what your partner’s health condition is. It may not be easy to convince one to take the test but it is a sure way to be safe and infection-free. It is also a way to show that you care for your health as well as for your partner. You wouldn’t want the both of you the consequences that STDs may give, right?

STD testing is done by taking samples from the patient for testing. Aside from urine, blood and swab samples may also be needed. The test procedures will depend on what type of STD that has infected the patient. Some STDs may require physical checkup of the patient and some may just be a laboratory test.

There are different types of STD testing available now to reach more people worldwide. There are test done for privacy like the confidential STD testing and private STD testing. Another one is the quick STD testing. This test can provide results on the same day or in as quickly as twenty minutes. Or others may just take a local STD testing being conducted in hospitals or local health clinics.