Trichomoniasis STD Symptoms

Trichomoniasis is the most common curable sexually transmitted disease (STD) among men and women. It is often called "trich". This disease is caused by protozoan known as trichomonas vaginalis and is spread through sexual intercourse or even just sexual contact. Vaginal, anal or oral intercourse can transmit the disease from one person to another. Women can get the disease from both men and women while men get it only from their female sex partners. The parasite that can be transmitted through sexual contact may also live in towels, clothing and bedding.

Trichomoniasis has been reported in up to 7.4 million cases each year in the US. Although both men and women can contract the STD, women are at a higher risk. Most individuals become infected of this STD between 16 to 35 years old. If this disease is left untreated, the indications or symptoms may become awfully unpleasant and may even do damage to your health. Women with untreated trichomoniasis develop a greater risk to acquiring human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

Generally, only women experience the symptoms of trichomoniasis. Even if men are infected with the disease, they most often do not show any symptoms of the STD. A large percentage, around 60%, of the women who have trich will go through some indications of the disease. These normally come into sight within 5 to 28 days of infection. In some cases, it takes up to 6 months before symptoms develop.

Women with trich are likely to experience vaginal discharge with color of either gray or yellow-green. This vaginal secretion will be frothy or bubbly and will be far from being aromatic. The labia may become swollen and the vagina will appear to be redder than the usual. Other symptoms may include pain and burning when you're urinating and sexual intercourse. A less general indicator of this STD is lower abdominal pain; it occurs only in about 10% of infected women. These symptoms do not disappear until they are treated by prescription drugs.

Men do not commonly exhibit indications of trichomoniasis. The parasite that causes the infection stays in the urethra (urinary tract) of men that makes the symptoms rare and diagnosis much harder. Around 40% of infected men will go through very mild symptoms. The symptoms of this STD on men are a tingling sensation in their penis and pain during urination and sexual intercourse. There may also be an evidence of white discharge from the penis. Symptoms of the disease in men are likely to disappear within a few weeks, but this does not mean that they cannot infect their sex partners anymore. Men will continue to infect women if their infection is left untreated.

If the condition is left uncured, trich can last for a number of years. An infected person will find the infections extremely uncomfortable and may also increase his or her risk for various infections. Men are at greater risks to develop penis infection, urethritis and prostate problems while women increase their chance to acquire HIV infection. In order to be completely sure that you don't have trichomoniasis, you should be sure to get tested every now and then.

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