"Gonorrhea Awareness".

Hello dear community! I hope you are fine. I feel proud that I am a member of the team Healthy Steem. Our team shares simple and useful information about health. In this post I'll talk about STIs like gonorrhea to help people stay safe and healthy. Let’s learn together and take care of our health my dear friends.

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What do you know about gonorrhea?

Gonorrhea is disease that happened sexually transmitted infection. Neisseria is a bacteria that is caused this disease. This infection spreads by unprotected sexual relation like vaginal and anal sex. Man and woman both can affect both men by this. It mostly infects private parts, rectum, or throat. Some people may not show due to shame or not knowing. This makes it hard to detect without a test.

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What are the causes, symptoms, and effects of gonorrhea?

This is spread by a bacteria that and sue to unsafe sexual relation . The main cause is having sex without protection(condom) particular with multiple partners. Common symptoms are pain when urinating, unusual discharge from the private parts and lower belly pain. In women also have bleeding during periods. In few cases, there is no symptom at all. If it is not treated on time, this can effects badly like infertility, long term pain and risk of spreading the infection to others. This disease also can ead to problems during pregnancy and affect newborn babies.

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How can we prevent and treat gonorrhea?

We can protect prevent by using protection like condoms during sex.
We can also prevent it by avoiding multiple sexual partners as it it against the teachings of Islam.
It can prevent by getting regular STI tests.
If someone have gonorrhea, it can be treated with antibiotics medicine prescribed by doctor. It is very important to complete the full course of medicine.
Do not self-treat or stop the medicine without a doctor’s advice.
Also, partners should get tested and treated to prevent passing the infection back and forth.

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Why is it important to spread awareness about STIs?

Awareness spreading about STIs is important for public health. Mostly people do not know they have an STI because symptoms are not always clear. So in this case awareness can help people to understand the importance of using protection, getting tested and having treatment on time. It reduces fear and shame and also encourage open conversations about sexual health. This leads to better prevention, less spread of infection and healthier communities. Educating people about STIs also helps in reducing long term health problems and saves lives.

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When more people know the risks and solutions, society becomes safer and more responsible.