Young men (25 years old) and his lover went to the hospital for examination due to suspected sexually transmitted disease.In particular, young men went to the doctor due to swelling, rash of the genital area, swelling of inguinal lymph nodes.
Through the exploitation of the history, the patient said only loyal sex with a partner.However, patients with girlfriends are being treated syphilis according to the doctor's regimen.
Although the doctor has been recommended not to have sex during treatment, the couple still maintains a relationship without using safety measures.
Dr.BS Ngo Chi Cuong, Head of Infectious and Tropical Medicine, Medlatec Medical SystemIt is said that syphilis has a fast spread speed, so if subjective will easily spread the disease.
According to the doctor, sex does not use safety measures not only increases the ability of unwanted pregnancy but also causes sexually transmitted pathogens to enter the body.
Dr. Cuong is examining a patient case.(Photo BSCC)
According to estimates by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2020, the world has about 7.1 million new syphilis cases.This figure shows that we need efforts to screen, detect early and prevent community disease transmission.
Syphilis causing treponema pallidum, sexually transmitted.Treponema Pallidum cannot survive outside the body for too long, easily destroyed by high temperatures, antiseptic and soap.However, when invading the body, syphilis can last for a long time, even for decades.
People infected in the early stage often have skin and mucous lesions.If not diagnosed and treated promptly, the disease can cause damage to other organizations and organs of the body such as muscles, bones, joints, cardiovascular and nervous system.
Dr. Cuong said that the disease can also cause serious complications such as aortic inflammation, aortic aneurysm, systemic polio, mental disorders, hepatitis.
The incubation period usually lasts a few days, while other stages of the disease may last weekly, or monthly.
Similar to sexually transmitted diseases (STIs), such as gonorrhea, genital herpes, genital warts, HIV ... in the early stage of syphilis often have no clear symptoms.This makes it difficult for people to recognize and go to medical facilities to visit promptly.
Dr. Cuong recommends that, to prevent sexually transmitted diseases, people should have a healthy sex life, a loyal relationship with a partner and use safety measures to prevent unwanted infectious diseases..
In case of unsafe sex, relationships with many partners use at once, people should go to the hospital to screen for periodic sexually transmitted diseases.If infection, if not detected and treated promptly, can cause the disease to progress silently and spread widely in the community.