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Gonorrhea symptoms in men

About 50 percent of men with gonorrhea do not experience any symptoms at all. If symptoms do present themselves, it is often in the form of painful urination or a yellow or green tinted white discharge from the penis. Less common symptoms include itching or burning around the urethra. Other symptoms are often mild and unnoticeable. An untreated gonorrhea infection can lead to serious complications like intense testicular or scrotal pain (epididymitis).

How long do gonorrhea symptoms take to appear?

Although some people do not experience any gonorrhea symptoms, they may appear 10 days after being exposed to the gonorrhea bacterium. Typically gonorrhea symptoms can be mild or confused with a long-lasting flu. In some cases, symptoms may be severe and lead to serious complications such as PID for women and epididymitis for men.

Gonorrhea and health complications

Some health complications, like pelvic inflammatory disease for women, are not symptomatic of gonorrhea, but are a serious health complication. You should seek medical attention if you feel sick, have a fever or pelvic pain, or experience pain during sex.

Untreated gonorrhea can lead to Disseminated Gonococcal Infection (DGI)

There are many reasons to treat gonorrhea infection including the risk of DGI. Also known as gonococcal arthritis, DGI is caused by the spread of gonorrhea to the body, including the blood, skin, heart, or joints. This rare condition occurs in only 1 out of 100 people infected with gonorrhea, but DGI can be deadly. DGI can develop as soon as 2-14 days after you are infected with gonorrhea. Symptoms usually include chills, fever, joint pain or swelling, painful wrist and heel tendons, skin rash, and symptoms of meningitis (such as headaches, stiff and painful neck, vomiting, confusion and seizures). Our doctors recommend seeking medical attention if you experience any of these symptoms in order to avoid any serious or deadly complications.

Gonorrhea Symptoms in Men

Most Common

• Silent or no symptoms (50% of the time men do not show signs)
• Yellow-white, or green-white discharge from the penis
• Painful, frequent urination
• Rectal pain, discharge, or bleeding
• Inflamed eye

Less Common

• Testicular or scrotal pain
• Burning and itching around the opening of the penis
• Sore throat

Gonorrhea Symptoms in Women

Most Common

• Silent or no symptoms

Less Common

• Unusual, increased bloody yellowish or watery green vaginal discharge 
• Painful urination
• Rectal pain, discharge, or bleeding
• Inflamed eye

Least Common

• Sore throat
• Pain during intercourse
• Fever
• Nausea
• Lower back pain
• Low stomach aches
• Bleeding between periods

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Help keep your heart in tip-top shape with this delicious heart healthy meal plan.

It has long been understood that a healthy diet and lifestyle are the best weapons to protect against heart disease. Research shows that eating healthfully, exercising more, maintaining a healthy weight and not smoking can help reduce heart disease-related deaths by 50 percent. Adopting heart-healthy eating habits just got easier with the help of this delicious 7-day, 1,200-calorie meal plan. The meals and snacks in this plan incorporate heart-healthy foods: fiber-rich fruits, vegetables and whole grains, lean protein and heart-healthy fats like olive oil and avocado. Dishes are seasoned with just a little salt and lots of herbs and spices, to keep things flavorful without adding too much sodium. We made sure that each day is within the recommended limits established by the American Heart Association for sodium, saturated fat and added sugars—nutrients to limit in a heart-healthy diet. Reducing your risk of heart disease is about more than just your diet. Talk to your doctor about adding in an exercise program and other healthy lifestyle factors (think, not smoking or decreasing daily stress).   

Breakfast

(266 calories)

Egg Toast
• 1 slice whole-wheat bread, toasted
• 1 large egg, cooked in 1/4 tsp. olive oil or coat pan with a thin layer of cooking spray (1-second spray). Season with a pinch each of salt and pepper.
• 2 Tbsp. salsa
Top toast with egg and salsa.
• 1 medium banana

A.M. Snack (63 calories)

• 3/4 cup blueberries

Lunch (319 calories)

Chickpea & Veggie Salad
• 2 cups mixed greens
• 3/4 cup veggies of your choice (try cucumbers and tomatoes)
• 2/3 cup chickpeas, rinsed
• 1 Tbsp. almonds, chopped
Combine ingredients and top salad with 1 Tbsp. red-wine vinegar, 2 tsp. olive oil and freshly ground pepper.

P.M. Snack (62 calories)

• 1 medium orange

Dinner (470 calories) Meal Prep Tip

Pack up the leftovers from dinner tonight to take for lunch on Day 3.

Breakfast (287 calories)

• 1 cup bran cereal
• 1 cup skim milk
• 1/2 cup blueberries

A.M. Snack (95 calories)

• 1 medium apple

Lunch (330 calories)

Veggie-Hummus Sandwich
• 2 slices whole-grain bread
• 3 Tbsp. hummus
• 1/4 avocado, mashed
• 1/4 cup cucumber slices
• 1/4 medium red bell pepper, sliced
• 1/4 cup shredded carrots
• 1 cup mixed greens
Spread bread with hummus and avocado and layer on vegetables.

P.M. Snack (80 calories)

• 3/4 medium red bell pepper, sliced
• 2 Tbsp. hummus

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The biology of the eye is extremely complex, especially when you consider the human eye only has the rough diameter of 2.54 cm and weighs approximately 7.5 grams. It is made up of around 15 distinct parts, all with different roles to play in receiving light into the eye and transmitting the electrical impulses, which ultimately relay image information to our brains so that we can perceive the world we live in.

The eye is often compared to a basic camera, and indeed the very first camera was designed with the concept of the eye in mind. We can reduce the complex process that occurs to process light into vision within the eye to a relatively basic sequence of events. First, light passes through the cornea, which refracts the light so that it enters the eye in the right direction, and aqueous humour, into the main body of the eye through the pupil. The iris contracts to control pupil size and this limits the amount of light that is let through into the eye so that light-sensitive parts of the eye are not damaged.

The pupil can vary in size between 2 mm and 8 mm, increasing to allow up to 30 times more light in than the minimum. The light is then passed through the lens, which further refracts the light, which then travels through the vitreous humour to the back of the eye and is reflected onto the retina, the centre point of which is the macula.

The retina is where the rods and cones are situated, rods being responsible for vision when low levels of light are present and cones being responsible for colour vision and specific detail. Rods are far more numerous as more cells are needed to react in low levels of light and are situated around the focal point of cones. This focal gathering of cones is collectively called the fovea, which is situated within the macula. All the light information that has been received by the eye is then converted into electrical impulses by a chemical in the retina called rhodopsin, also known as purple visual, and the impulses are then transmitted through the optic nerve to the brain where they are perceived as ‘vision’. The eye moves to allow a range of vision of approximately 180 degrees and to do this it has four primary muscles which control the movement of the eyeball. These allow the eye to move up and down and across, while restricting movement so that the eye does not rotate back into the socket.

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Emphysema, also known as chronic obstructive lung (pulmonary) disease, or COPD, refers to a group of diseases characterized by narrow, obstructed, or destroyed airways within the lungs. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, in 2003, nearly 11 million adults were afflicted with COPD. 

Emphysema is one type of COPD. In emphysema, air sacs (alveoli) in the lungs are damaged. The damage results in permanent "holes" in the lung tissue. These holes trap air in the lungs, and also cause the lung tissue to become less elastic and distended, like an overused rubber band. 

The pressure from the distended areas of the lung compresses the nearby healthy lung tissue. This makes it difficult to exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide when exhaling. 

Symptoms of emphysema include cough, shortness of breath, and difficulty tolerating exercise. As the disease progresses, patients with emphysema may require supplemental oxygen and eventually rely on mechanical respiratory assistance. Severe emphysema can lead to respiratory failure and death. 

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Alcohol's Effects on the Body

Drinking too much – on a single occasion or over time – can take a serious toll on your health.  Here’s how alcohol can affect your body:

Brain:
Alcohol interferes with the brain’s communication pathways, and can affect the way the brain looks and works. These disruptions can change mood and behavior, and make it harder to think clearly and move with coordination.  

Heart:
Drinking a lot over a long time or too much on a single occasion can damage the heart, causing problems including:

• Cardiomyopathy – Stretching and drooping of heart muscle
• Arrhythmias – Irregular heart beat
• Stroke
• High blood pressure  

Research also shows that drinking moderate amounts of alcohol may protect healthy adults from developing coronary heart disease.

Liver:
Heavy drinking takes a toll on the liver, and can lead to a variety of problems and liver inflammations including:

• Steatosis, or fatty liver
• Alcoholic hepatitis
• Fibrosis
• Cirrhosis

Pancreas:
Alcohol causes the pancreas to produce toxic substances that can eventually lead to pancreatitis, a dangerous inflammation and swelling of the blood vessels in the pancreas that prevents proper digestion. 

Cancer:
Drinking too much alcohol can increase your risk of developing certain cancers, including cancers of the:

• Mouth
• Esophagus
• Throat
• Liver
• Breast

Immune System:
Drinking too much can weaken your immune system, making your body a much easier target for disease.  Chronic drinkers are more liable to contract diseases like pneumonia and tuberculosis than people who do not drink too much.  Drinking a lot on a single occasion slows your body’s ability to ward off infections – even up to 24 hours after getting drunk.

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Alzheimer's disease is caused by immune cells in the brain triggered by inflammation, according to a breakthrough discovery. The new research could lead to the development of a drug that treats or even prevents the condition within five years, say scientists.

Experiments found destroying specific cells - known as microglia - reduced the formation of clumps of amyloid beta that form in Alzheimer's and destroy memory.

These are the rogue proteins believed to lie at the root of the devastating neurological illness.

Human trials of all therapies have failed in the past. Most have targeted the amyloid plaques that build up in the brains of patients.

The German team say the breakthrough is exciting as it sheds fresh light on a classic hallmark of Alzheimer's. It also offers hope of an effective medication aimed at the 'microglia' cells - instead of amyloid-beta itself.

Prof Michael Heneka and colleagues say the amyloid beta plaques are fuelled by inflammation.

In Alzheimer's patients these proteins collect together - leading to cell damage and confusion.

For years inflammation has been suspected of having a role but the exact nature of its involvement has been hard to pin down - until now.

The researchers found the microglia release specks of a protein called ASC in response to it. They stick to the amyloid beta protein - boosting its production.

Prof Heneka, of the University of Bonn, Germany, said this may even occur in the very early stages of Alzheimer's.

In tests an antibody that blocked ASC from binding to amyloid beta stopped it from forming into damaging clumps.

The study published in Nature found this worked in live mice as well as cells grown in the laboratory.

ASC reside in a vital inflammatory pathway called the NLRP3 inflammasome which damages brain cells.

Prof Heneka said: 'In patients with Alzheimer's disease, deposition of amyloid-beta is accompanied by activation of the innate immune system and involves formation of ASC specks in microglia.'

These bind rapidly to amyloid-beta and increase the formation of clumps. He said ASC specks have been visualised in the brains of patients who died from Alzheimer's.

He said: 'The patho-physiological link between inflammasome responses and amyloid-beta plaque spreading suggests pharmacological targeting of inflammasomes could represent a novel treatment for Alzheimer's disease. Mice genetically engineered to lack the NLRP3 gene that produces ASC showed much less amyloid-beta in the brain - and performed better on spatial memory tasks.

Antibodies to ASC - which prevent the specks from binding to other proteins - also suppressed the formation of amyloid-beta clumps.

Speaking from Germany, Prof Heneka said: 'The hope would be to interfere with disease progression and spreading of pathology by counteracting or interfering with the NLRP3 inflammasome or ASC specks.

'I would hope - given it is possible to develop a safe and brain penetrant NLRP3 inhibitor - this could be tested in the next five to 10 years from now.'

His lab had previously shown mice lacking the protein NLRP3 are less likely to develop clumps of amyloid-beta - suspected of lying at the heart of Alzheimer's.

Prof Heneka said: 'Spreading and disease progression is absent in the state of the art model of disease spreading.

'If animals carry a genetic knockout for ASC one would hope blocking ASC speck formation holds therapeutic potential.'

Professor Richard Ransohoff, a cell biologist at Harvard Medical School, Boston,

reviewed the study for the journal and said the identification of specific chemicals in plaque formation is 'extremely welcome.'

They 'could accelerate the development of better therapies' but if these are to be effective it will be important to discover which part to target.

He described suppressing formation of ASC specks as a specific 'downstream aspect' but this might not sufficiently inhibit all the problems implicated in Alzheimer's.

Prof Ransohoff said: 'Despite this difficulty, which bedevils all pathway directed therapeutics, it is heartening and invigorating to have a newly discovered mechanism to consider in the quest to treat Alzheimer's disease.'

Last year University of Southampton researchers found increased numbers of microglia in the post mortem brains of people with Alzheimer's.

A drug used to block their production in the brains of mice had fewer memory and behavioural problems.

The compound also prevented the loss of communication points between nerve cells in the brain - which usually happens in people with Alzheimer's. Experts said the results were 'exciting'.

About 850,000 people in Britain have dementia, with Alzheimer's by far the most common form, with the figure set to reach a million by 2025 because of the ageing population. There is no cure.