Mycoplasmosis is a chronic disease of the genitourinary system (most often, but not only) that is caused by mycoplasmas. Microscopic parasites, mycoplasmas, live both in humans and in animals. The vast majority of victims of the disease are women, because the male body is capable of self-healing from this type of disease, but, alas, not always. Up to sixteen types of mycoplasmas can live in the body , six of which are the causative agent of the disease mycoplasmosis. Symptoms of the disease may not appear for years, but with the advent of immunodeficiency will become noticeable. This disease is gradually developing, but does not immediately make itself felt. In women and men, mycoplasmosis manifests itself in different ways. Symptoms characteristic of this disease in women: translucent, scanty discharge comes from the vagina, there is a variable pain with burning and tingling when urinating, which intensifies before menstruation. Such symptoms are often mistakenly considered signs of cystitis. However, mycoplasmas do their job, and gradually the immunity of the urogenital female system affected by them decreases, and various pathologies appear, such as adnexitis, abscesses, mycoplasmosis progresses. Symptoms intensify not only during menstruation, but also menopause, various hormonal failures.
Mycoplasmosis in the stronger sex is parallel with the symptoms of urethritis, and urethritis, compatible with this disease, is sluggish, but for a long time. Usually this disease occurs along with such as chlamydia, trichomidiasis and ureplasmosis. From time to time, especially in the morning, mucus secretions flow from the urethra. When urinating, the pain is slight. Sometimes the head of the penis can be as if filled with blood (hyperemic). A complication that is much more common than others is prostatitis. With time, libido falls. Prostatitis manifests itself gradually, but impotence, which may well be the consequence of such a disease, also gradually occurs.
From the moment of infection for thirteen weeks in chronic mycoplasmosis, a person spreads the resulting infection around him by airborne droplets . Respiratory mycoplasmosis affects people differently, depending on their genetic data and the stamina of the body. If adults can get the disease by airborne droplets (and even not all of them depend on the strength of the immune system), then children can become infected even through tactile contact. Signs that the patient has respiratory mycoplasmosis: temperature is elevated for some time, throat perspires and turns red, runny nose, sweat is liberated profusely. If you start it, the inflammation will go down into the bronchi, it will cause a cough - dry, intense, with small secretions of sputum. If the disease is not stopped at this stage, then it is fraught with pneumonia with all the consequences.
The treatment of mycoplasmosis is, first of all, the stimulation of immunity to the fight. For this, tetracycline and erythromycin are the best antibiotics.
Unfortunately, not only people, but also four-legged friends of a person can also get sick with a disease such as mycoplasmosis. Symptoms in infected dogs concern their urogenital system. Sexually transmitted and less common inborn form. Less commonly, since the affected fetus is much more frequently absorbed or aborted in the womb of the female. There is also an airborne droplet lesion. Mycoplasmosis proceeds differently in bitches and males. Females repeat vaginitis, which is very difficult to treat using the classical method, and pregnancy often ends in miscarriages and stillborn babies. Dogs have a reduced ability to reproduce, complications are scrotal edema, prostatitis, urethritis, as well as balanoposthitis and orchoepididymitis. In a word, mycoplasmosis in dogs is an obstacle to the reproduction of a new generation of animals. If the area affected by the disease expands, then joint damage by its pathogens is possible. If mycoplasmosis, leaving the primary lesion, affects the joints, then the following symptoms appear: joint swelling in the animal, lameness, complete reluctance to move, and joint pain that has appeared. In addition to dogs, rats and domestic cats often suffer from this ailment . Mycoplasmosis in dogs is treated with some antibiotics: tylosin, chloramphenicol, tetracycline and some others. Immunostimulants will not be superfluous in the fight against the disease. Respiratory mycoplasmosis is possible only in young or in those adults whose ciliary apparatus of the bronchi is affected.