If you have burning on urination or discomfort when your bladder is full, and your doctor can't find a cause, you and your sexual partner(s) should be treated with antibiotics anyway.
50 percent of young people with more than three sexual partners a year have a sexually transmissible disease. 40 percent of sexually active adolescent females in a large American city had the venereal diseases, chlamydia or gonorrhea. The most common cause of burning on urination and discomfort when the bladder is full in women are venereal diseases. The most common time for urinary tract infections to start in women is the day after making love.
The most common known causes of infertility and miscarriages are the venereal diseases: chlamydia, gonorrhea, mycoplasma and ureaplasma. The rapid test for chlamydia and gonorrhea is positive in only 37 percent of infertile and miscarrying couples who had these infections diagnosed by more expensive and sophisticated cultures. Practicing physicians cannot order dependable tests for mycoplasma and ureaplasma, two of the most common causes of venereal diseases in North American today.
All people with urinary tract symptoms should have their urines cultured for infection. If the urine culture grows a bacteria, they should be treated with the appropriate antibiotic, but most of the time, the urine cultures do not grow bacteria. In that case, your doctor should order tests to check you for venereal diseases. If none is found, you are sexually active and you have symptoms, both you and your partner should be treated with the newer erythromycins, such as clarithromycin, azithromycin and dirithromycin for several weeks. If you still have symptoms, you need a thorough evaluation by a physician trained in evaluating urinary tract infections
Dr. Gabe Mirkin has been a radio talk show host for 25 years and practicing physician for more than 40 years; he is board certified in four specialties, including sports medicine. Read or listen to hundreds of his fitness and health reports at http://www.DrMirkin.com
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