Treatment for mycoplasmosis

Causes of mycoplasmosis infection

The following transmission routes have been established for all types of mycoplasmas: genital, liquid (drop-fluid and household-direct contact with a patient with mycoplasmosis and through public items), intrauterine and natal (infection with mycoplasmosis of newborns by passing through maternal passages of mother with mycoplasmosis). Among the large number of mycoplasmas that occur in humans, only 4 types of mycoplasmas are pathogenic — under certain circumstances, these mycoplasmas cause disease. The genital and natal tracts, due to their epidemiological evidence do not need careful discussion.

Symptoms of mycoplasmosis, signs and course of mycoplasmas

• Intermenstrual (ovulatory) discharge of blood or brownish leucorrhoea.
• Iinconstant liquid discharge from the genital tract, resembling lactoserum in
  appearance.
• Itch external genitals, distal part of anterior lobe of urethra and other mucous
  membranes.
• Women have pain in the middle or at the end of menstruation and a brownish discharge before or after menstruation.
• Skin rashes
• Extreme susceptibility to catch a cold
• Pain in the liver that is not connected with cholecystitis.

Diagnosis of disease

Diagnosis of the disease is quite complex: there are no signs that are typical only for mycoplasma and they are so small that they cannot be detected with oridinary microscopy. To detect the disease, a swab is taken from patient and examined by polymerase chain reaction (PCR-DNA diagnostics) or also by immunofluorescence, diagnosis is also possible by examining blood from a vein on the availability of antibodies to mycoplasma.

Prevention of mycoplasmosis

It is necessary to examine and if mycoplasma is detected, treatment is necessary for all people who have had sexual contact with the patient. Treatment is necessarily carried out together with a sexual partner. Otherwise, repeated infection is inevitable because resistance to mycoplasmas does not occur.