NON-SPECIFIC URETHRITIS (NSU) – PATHOGEN

Posted on March 11, 2009, under Men's Health-Erectile Dysfunction.

The pus is placed on a slide and examined under a microscope and usually ‘cultured’ as I described in the diagnosis of gonorrhoea. Neither the slide, nor the culture, shows any organisms. All that is found are numerous pus cells, which are merely special white blood cells. However, recent research has shown that swabs taken from the urethra of between one-quarter and one-half of people who have NSU show a virus-like bacterium, called chlamydia.

It will be appreciated that clinically the disease is identical with gonorrhoea in its early stages, and the diagnosis can only be made by excluding gonorrhoea and other specific infections. For this reason, and also because NSU can have unpleasant complications, it is essential that a man who develops painful urination and a discharge from his penis seeks a medical opinion and has the appropriate treatment when a diagnosis has been made.

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