Syphilis spiral features

Syphilis is one of the very common sexually transmitted diseases, it is a bacterial infection that has the ability to affect the skin, mucous membranes and genitals of the person, dangerous cases that can cause diseases in the brain and heart, causing dangerous complications.

1. What is syphilis?

Although sexually transmitted diseases are quite common, if detected early and treated in a timely manner, syphilis can be treated and does not cause any damage or consequences on the patient's body. However, without treatment, the patient will face unintended consequences.

When infected with syphilis, the patient will see the symptoms of syphilis, these symptoms go through 4 stages including: Phase 1, Phase 2, latent stage and stage 3. In particular, there are cases of congenital syphilis that occur when the child is transmitted from the mother who suffers from syphilis during pregnancy. Congenital syphilis can have serious consequences, causing the fetus to suffer from birth defects, which are life-threatening. Therefore, pregnant women with syphilis need to inform the doctor to have the right treatment direction, timely, prevent the transmission of syphilis from mother to child.

Bulb syphilis

Sexually transmitted syphilis

2. Syphilis bacteria features

In terms of body shape, syphilis bacteria have the form of spring twists, gram-negative, dysentery, usually each bacterium will have 8-11 even and close-together spirals, they can be mobile with very soft characteristics, the size of the bacteria that cause syphilis is 5-15 x 0.1 – 0.3 mm. The body of syphilis bacteria can be clearly seen on a black background microscope. Syphilis bacteria are difficult to color, often staining Giemsa or dyeing methyl purple, dyeing Fontana-Tribondeau.

3. How long do syphilis bacteria live?

Syphilis bacteria have no shell and do not produce spores, they produce by dividing horizontally at a rate of about 30 hours once. Syphilis bacteria are very long, they will fold into a V-shape and break in half.

Syphilis-causing bacteria are very weakly resistant so they are prone to death when they come out of the body they are parasites in, antiseptics, soap, high temperatures and syphilis will easily die. However, this bacterium has good cold resistance, lives for many years, so it has a strong pathogenic ability.

Syphilis bacteria

Syphilis bacteria image

4. How to diagnose syphilis?

All humans from birth will not have immunity to syphilis, in case of suffering from this disease and being treated in a timely manner, after recovering from the disease there will be co-strain immunity but also not durable, no heterosexual immunity to syphilis.

Direct syphilis diagnostic tests are usually conducted in the early part of the disease, the doctor may recommend taking the epidemic in ulcers or plagues of neighboring areas of the patient's body to make a squeeze drop. See under a black background microscope, observe the body and mobility of spirulina.

For the diagnosis of serum for syphilis, it is usually carried out from the 10th day 10 20 days 10 days 10 days and the patient will be given blood to separate the serum as a reaction.

After the diagnosis of the condition, doctors will treat syphilis with appropriate antibiotics. Each stage of syphilis will have different treatments. The doctor regularly tests the blood during treatment to ensure that the patient has completely cured the disease.

Diagnosis of syphilis

Diagnostic tests for syphilis

5. Prevention of syphilis infection

Syphilis is a highly contagious disease, especially through unsafe sexual contact. Therefore, each person needs to actively learn the knowledge related to this disease to take proactive, effective and safe syphilis prevention measures, it should be noted:

  • Under all circumstances, safe sex is required to prevent syphilis in particular and for groups at high risk of infection in general.
  • When you have the disease, do not voluntarily stop taking syphilis medications or change the dosage without your doctor's permission.
  • Notify the doctor immediately if you are pregnant and suspect syphilis, infection with syphilis from mother to fetus is very dangerous.
  • Maintain cleanliness, regularly to avoid transmission of syphilis
  • Build a healthy lifestyle, be faithful to one wife, one husband.
  • Tell your girlfriend about syphilis treatment so they can go check it out.
  • Avoid sex at least 2 weeks after treatment or until the doctor allows it.
  • Perform screening for social diseases for early detection for effective treatment, avoiding complications of syphilis.

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About: John Smith

b1ffdb54307529964874ff53a5c5de33?s=90&r=gI am the author of Share99.net. I had been working in Vinmec International General Hospital for over 10 years. I dedicate my passion on every post in this site.

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