| Generally speaking, clinical symptoms occur 72 hours after the infection, however, weak constitution, excessive sex life, excessive drinking may shorten the latent period. ¢ñ male blennorrhagia: manifests as acute preurethritis, reddish swelling of meatus urinarius, outflow of thin mucus, discomfort in urination, all the symptoms aggravated 24 hours after the onset, including yellowish pus like secretion, frequent micturition, urodynia, and dysuresia, with a few cases accompanied by fever, reddish swelling and ache or even pyogenesis on both side of the inguinal lymphnodes, some of them may have complications such as prostatitis, epididymitis, which finally lead to urethral stricture.
¢ò female blennorrhagia: Because the female is comparatively shorter, the symptoms of urinary tract is not distinct, manifesting as profuse leucorrhea and hypogastralgia which may possibly be missed in diagnosing, and accompanied by pelvic inflammatory disease, endometritis, and salpigitis, which finally lead to sterility.
¢ó neonatal ophthalmia £º It is infected through the birth canal, manifesting as palpebral redness and swelling, and purulent secretion 2-3 days after birth, which may lead to blindness finally if treatment is not timely received, and that's why newborn infants should be routinely eye dropped with silver nitrate solution.
¢ô Colpitis of female infants: as female vagina is wrapped by columnar epithelium, it is extremely easy to be infected by diplococcus gonorrhoeae, manifesting as perineal reddish swelling, purulent secretion in vagina and urethra, as well as urodynia. |
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