Mucopurulent Cervicitis

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The Sexually Transmitted Disease I chose is Mucopurulent Cervicitis. It is also known as MPC. According to University of South Carolina Student Health Services website, “Mucopurulent Cervicitis is often cause by inflection and the infection can be caused by a number of different organisms”1, but then the “cause can be unknown or unclear”.1 I think that this is a contradicting statement. The article when on to say that “chlamydia, gonorrhea, trichomonas, or herpes can cause Mucopurulent Cervicitis, but most cases no cause can be identified”.1 Being a sexually transmitted disease, it is only logical to think that Mucopurulent Cervicitis is spread through sexual contact. With “some cases the origin of the infection is not clear and most women with Mucopurulent Cervicitis do not have gonorrhea or chlamydia”.1 Mucopurulent Cervicitis is an extremely dangerous STD because “it …show more content…

According to Before Play.org, the only considerations is to “avoid douching because it can hide the symptoms of Mucopurulent Cervicitis making it harder to diagnose and treat the disease”.2 According to NCBi.gov website, the treatment used for treating Mucopurulent Cervicitis is a “randomized trial of doxycycline or treatment with amoxicillin”.6 The website went on to further say in the article that “patients were followed up for three months and that the treatment was assessed by clinical and microbiologic criteria and that the doxycycline and amoxicillin are effective treatments for patients with Mucopurulent Cervicitis from

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