Remember all those young ladies on social media who proclaimed to be proud of the fact that they were “dealing wit daddy” (aka willingly cheating with someone’s man/significant other), well can someone please inform them that they may want to consider rethinking their life goals.

On yesterday, the World Health Organization, which monitors disease outbreaks, announced the world is running out of ways to treat gonorrhea, which was once easily curable.  Gonorrhea is becoming increasingly resistant to the world’s antibiotics due to overuse and misuse.  WHO has published new guidelines for the treatment of gonorrhea, along with chlamydia and syphilis which are also becoming resistant to drugs.

For those of you being treated currently, if your doctor has prescribed the common treatment of quinolones, you should see your healthcare provider immediately; doctors are now required to use cephalosporins, a different class of antibiotics.  Ian Askew, Director of Reproductive Health and Research for WHO explains:

“Chlamydia, gonorrhoea and syphilis are major public health problems worldwide, affecting millions of peoples’ quality of life, causing serious illness and sometimes death. The new WHO guidelines reinforce the need to treat these STIs with the right antibiotic, at the right dose, and the right time to reduce their spread and improve sexual and reproductive health.”

Unfortunately, in some countries gonorrhea is becoming resistant to some of the new treatments of cephalosporins; WHO is already planning to have a new drug ready in about five years.

WHO cautions women especially about these resistant sexual infections.  They warn gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis are especially dangerous when untreated in women. They can cause long-term reproductive health problems, including pelvic inflammatory disease and miscarriage​. In both men and women, untreated gonorrhea and chlamydia can cause infertility, and seriously increase the risk of becoming infected with HIV.

So in the meantime, now that young people seem to be more sexually free than ever before.  In a country where “dealing with daddy” is some sort of lame badge of honor among many young women (and some old ones).  Continue to keep your health a priority, be careful, protect yourself and trade the corny, risky “dealing” behaviors in for a safer lifestyle – just love yourself.