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If you have unprotected sex with a person who is having sex with someone else, you are at extraordinarily high risk for getting venereal diseases, that can make you sick and even kill you. A report from Johns Hopkins shows that 25 percent of girls between 12 and 19 who show up at school-based sexually transmitted disease clinics are infected with chlamydia, a venereal disease that causes infertility, pelvic infections, miserable urinary symptoms, joint pains, a sore throat, a cough, heart attacks and even death. Previous studies show that 50 percent of young people with more than three sexual partners a year have sexually transmissible diseases and 40 percent of sexually active adolescent females in one large American city have the venereal diseases, chlamydia or gonorrhea.

The most common causes of burning on urination and discomfort when the bladder is full are venereal diseases. If you feel that you have to urinate all the time, have discomfort when your bladder is full, get up in the middle of the night to urinate, have spotting between periods, feel like there is a hair in your urinary tube or have unexplained pelvic pain, you may have a venereal disease that may be curable with antibiotics. You should get urine and vaginal cultures and tests for venereal diseases. If none is found but you are sexually active and you have symptoms, both you and your partner still should be treated with the newer erythromycins or tetracyclines for several weeks. If you still have symptoms, you need a thorough evaluation by a physician trained in evaluating urinary tract infections.

Dr. Gabe Mirkin has been a radio talk show host for 25 years and practicing physician for more than 40 years; he is board certified in four specialties, including sports medicine. Read or listen to hundreds of his fitness and health reports at http://www.DrMirkin.com

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