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Medical Author:

Arasi Thangavelu-Veluswamy, MD, FAAEM

Coauthor:

Suzanne R Trupin, MD

Medical Editor:

Jerry R. Balentine, DO, FACEP

Jerry R. Balentine, DO, FACEP

Dr. Balentine received his undergraduate degree from McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland. He attended medical school at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine graduating in1983. He completed his internship at St. Joseph's Hospital in Philadelphia and his Emergency Medicine residency at Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center in the Bronx, where he served as chief resident.

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When to Seek Medical Care

• Call your health care provider if you have the following symptoms:
  
  
  • A yellow puslike vaginal discharge
    
    
  • Difficult or painful urination
    
    
  • Increased frequency in urination
    
    
  • Pelvic pain
    
    
  • Bleeding or spotting after sexual intercourse or between periods
    
    
  • Pain low in the abdomen, sometimes felt only during sexual intercourse
    
    
• Go immediately to a hospital's emergency department if you have a great deal of vaginal discharge, fevers, chills, nausea and vomiting, severe abdominal pain, dizziness, or any other symptoms that you think might be an emergency.