One of the diagnoses that doctors intimidate many people is ureaplasmosis. In fact, the majority of people, especially young people who have an active sex life, are not sick with this disease, but only carriers of ureaplasma or mycoplasma infections, or both.
The carrying of many bacteria, viruses, and fungi is part of the norm of human life, and it has long been proven that our body is not sterile, but it contains several hundred species of microorganisms. Nevertheless, ureaplasmosis is a "novelty" and until now there were no courageous experts who would have shouted: "People, come to your senses, you are killing yourself with this fight with allegedly terrible infections!" The disease ureaplasmosis leads many to the same horror as "herpes, cytomegalovirus, toxoplasm". And terrible myths are created about how these microorganisms mercilessly maim the health of people, and even kill them. Is it so?
Ureaplasma belongs to the same genus as mycoplasma, so they can be called "brother and sister", has the same structure. There are three types of ureaplasmosis, but the one that interests us is Ureaplasmaurealyticum, which is most often found in the lower parts of the human urinary excretory system. It easily transmitted sexually. Mycoplasma can be found in more than 50% of women who have sex and who do not complain about genitourinary diseases. Ureaplasmosis occurs in 40-80% of women, sexually active, and also dwells "secretly". Up to 70% of men may be asymptomatic carriers of it. Thus, by the majority of doctors these microorganisms are accepted as a normal flora of the human body. Some doctors refer ureaplasmosis to conditionally pathogenic organisms, since under certain conditions they can participate in the occurrence of a number of inflammatory processes.
There are many cases when asymptomatic carriage was treated 4 to 10 times! If a woman has similar to ureaplasmosis symptoms or complaints of inflammation of the bladder and urethra, it is necessary to exclude the bacteria of the intestinal group and a number of others that most often cause inflammation of the bladder (although in 90% of cases of cystitis in middle-aged women there is non-bacterial cystitis, or the so-called interstitial). If other pathogens are not found, then the primary pathogen can be considered infection.
There were a lot of disputes about the involvement of ureaplasmosis in complications of pregnancy. According to very few studies, these microorganisms were accused of spontaneous miscarriages, the birth of children with low body weight, premature birth, and pneumonia in newborns. However, these studies did not mention the presence of other representatives of the opportunistic flora. Later studies disproved the involvement of these microorganisms in spontaneous miscarriages or premature birth.
Most often ureaplasmosis is combined with other infectious agents: chlamydia, gonococcus, HIV, and it is in this combination that they can be very dangerous. Although it has been proven that the ureaplasmosis penetrates the placenta and can infect the fetus, there have been isolated cases of such transmission of the infectious agent from the mother to the fetus. Treatment of ureaplasmosis in women with spontaneous miscarriages, the situation with bearing pregnancy does not improve. Therefore, many medical scientists argue that ureaplasmosis can only be an additional risk factor. For a healthy pregnancy, it is not dangerous. For pregnancies that occur with complications from the mother or fetus, these microorganisms can be dangerous, causing a number of additional complications. In most countries of the world, women who plan pregnancy, testing and treatment of asymptomatic carriage of ureaplasma do not pass, as do pregnant women with normal pregnancy.
An interesting fact is that ureaplasmosis transmission cannot happen through oral sex. A survey of women of ancient professions in Japan in 2009 showed that the presence of it in the vagina is not associated, or rather has no connection with the "purity" of the throat. But chlamydial infection of the genitals is often associated with the presence of chlamydia in the nasopharynx, if oral sex is practiced. Doctors can not conclusively say that during oral-genital sex ureaplasma and mycoplasma are not transmitted, however, has not been proven and the opposite is true, that the transfer of these microorganisms is possible.
In addition to infection in the emergence of various symptoms from the urogenital system, other factors play a role. Healthy nutrition, hygiene genitals, as well as hygiene of sexual life, wearing loosely natural clothing, physical exercise, smoking cessation and alcohol abuse are necessary to maintain the health and healthy function of the pelvic organs.
Returning to ureaplasmosis, we can say that these are very nonaggressive inhabitants of the human body. Ureaplasmosis treatment is necessary only when a person has complaints and symptoms of inflammation of the urethra and other parts of the urine-excretory system.
How to treat ureaplasmosis? Can help one type of antibiotic, affecting the gonococcal and non-gonococcal infections, in the form of a single dose or for 7 days. Are you surprised? Nobody injures patients by introducing instruments into the urethra, by "washing" and "cleaning", by injecting drugs into it and the bladder, by scrapes. And in such tactics there is a certain rational grain, taking into account the specificity of urethritis of infectious origin. Ureaplasmosis is highly resistant to drugs of tetracycline due to abuse of an antibiotic for the treatment of urethritis and inflammation urinary excretory tract, that are drugs such as Penicillin, Cephalosporins (Ceftin, Suprax) and Quinolones (Noroxin, Neggram, and others). In addition, tetracyclines are contraindicated in pregnant women. Therefore, combined antibiotics are increasingly being used. Thus, to be afraid of ureaplasmosis and mycoplasmosis is not worth it. Any introduction to your own organism of medicines and instruments should be seriously justified; otherwise you artificially create a disease.
