Gonorrhea and children: symptoms, treatment, etc


        GONORRHEA AND CHILDREN: SYMPTOMS, TREATMENT, ETC

Signs and symptoms
Gonorrhea of the genitals in boys causes burning during urination and a discharge from the penis. In girls, gonorrhea may cause vaginal discharge and abdominal pain, but frequently there are no symptoms at all. In cases with no symptoms, diagnosis can be made only by alertness and awareness of the possibility of the disease.

Home care
There is no home treatment. Gonorrhea must be diagnosed and treated by a doctor. Diagnosis requires special culture techniques with microscopic examination of discharges from the vagina or penis.

Precautions
• Be aware that the disease still exists and that it exists in children of all ages.
• Provide sex education for your children.
• Many physicians advocate the practice of taking periodic vaginal cultures at the time of routine school and annual examinations of sexually active girls.

Medical treatment
Your doctor will diagnose gonorrhea by smear and special culture techniques. If gonorrhea is diagnosed, antibiotics will be prescribed. Although some gonococci germs are now resistant to penicillin (that is, not destroyed by it), other new antibiotics are reliably effective. By law, cases of gonorrhea must be reported to health departments. Most cases are diagnosed by tracing the sexual contacts of the individuals with known cases of gonorrhea. In New South Wales treatment of minors between 14 and 16 is confidential, at the doctor's discretion; parental consent is not necessarily required. However, there could be variations from State to State.

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