Few sexual diseases are about to turn into bacteria

It is predicted that in five years, Mycoplasma genitalium will become a bacterium that threatens human fertility.

Due to antibiotic resistance, sexually transmitted diseases are becoming increasingly dangerous and one of these is Mycoplasma genitalium (MG) infection .

According to Men's Health, MG is unfamiliar to many people, but it has been discovered since the 1980s. The bacterium is mainly spread through sex. An estimated 3% of the world's population suffers from MG.

An estimated 3% of the world's population suffers from MG.(Photo: MH).

Infection with MG, men may become watery, urethral pain, pain at urination. For women, signs include vaginal discharge, pain or bleeding after sex, menstrual bleeding, pelvic pain under the navel. These symptoms rarely go out and are mistaken for Chlamydia, which leads to a false diagnosis.

Without timely treatment, MG leads to a series of dangerous complications such as orchitis, vasculitis, prostatitis in men and cervicitis, ovarian inflammation, ovarian inflammation in women. All these problems contribute to infertility.

Currently, azithromycin is thought to be the most effective MG treatment antibiotic. However, because it is easy to be mistaken, MG patients are often wrongly prescribed medicine. Sharing with CNN, Dr. Mark Lawton from the Liverpool Center for Sexual Health (UK) said using inappropriate antibiotics is the leading cause of increasing resistance to MG. Predicted in five years, MG will become a bacterium.

Ideally, to protect yourself from MG and other sexually transmitted diseases, you need to use condoms every time you have sex. Although it is not 100% preventable, this measure also significantly reduces the risk of infection. In addition, if you suspect that you are infected, you should actively ask your doctor to conduct a nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) to detect bacterial DNA.