Question

If gonorrhea is a treatable infection, why do so many men experience severe damage and even infertility or joint infections as a result of leaving it untreated?

A) The medication developed to treat gonorrhea is extremely expensive; many people cannot afford it, and must leave the infection untreated to spread throughout the body.
B) The symptoms for gonorrhea are sometimes mild; this means people often leave it untreated because they do not know they have any type of infection at all.
C) The antibiotic used to treat gonorrhea is experimental; this means it is not covered by insurance and is only available in certain countries to people who can afford it.
D) The symptoms for gonorrhea are easily mistaken for other infections; this means people take the wrong medications that actually cause the infection to spread.

Answer 1

If gonorrhea is a treatable infection, why do so many men experience severe damage and even infertility or joint infections as a result of leaving it untreated?


B) The symptoms for gonorrhea are sometimes mild; this means people often leave it untreated because they do not know they have any type of infection at all.

Answer 2

B) The symptoms for gonorrhea are sometimes mild; this means people often leave it untreated because they do not know they have any type of infection at all.

Step-by-step explanation:

Gonorrhea is the most common STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease). It is a sexually transmitted infectious urogenital tract disease that can determine from asymptomatic infection to overt disease with high morbidity. The treatment of gonorrhea is through antibiotics that can be found in any hospital. With this, we can say that besides being curable, gonorrhea has a treatment that is easy to perform. However, some people are slow to seek treatment, allowing the disease to take on large proportions and may lead to the death of the individual.

At the onset of infection, the symptoms presented by a person with gonorrhea are mild and little apparent, so people are slow to seek medical attention. This is very dangerous, because the sooner the disease is treated, the less damage the individual will suffer.