Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease caused by bacteria spiroseta, Treponema pallidum. Transmission is usually through sexual contact, but there are some other examples of such direct contact and congenital syphilis (transmission through mother to child in the uterus).
Symptoms and signs of syphilis many and different; before serologikal test development, the diagnosis is difficult and the disease is often called the "Great Duplicator" because it is often mistaken for other diseases. The data reported by the Ministry of Health indicates syphilis sufferers reach 5000 to 10,000 cases per year. While in China, the report shows the number of reported cases rose from 0.2 per 100,000 inhabitants in 1993 to 5.7 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in 2005. In the United States, reported approximately 36,000 cases of syphilis each year, and the actual number is higher diperkiran. About three-fifths of cases occur to men.
If untreated, syphilis can cause serious effects such as damage to the nervous system, heart, or brain. Untreated syphilis can be fatal. People who have exposed the possibility of syphilis or discover his sex partners of syphilis may be affected are encouraged to immediately see a doctor as soon as possible.
Germs cause called Treponema pallidum. The period without symptoms lasted 3-4 weeks, sometimes up to 13 weeks. Then comes the bump around the genitals. Sometimes accompanied by dizziness and flu-like bone pain, which will go away without treatment. There are red spots on the body about 6-12 weeks after sex. These symptoms will disappear by itself and often the patient does not notice this.
During the first 2-3 years of this disease does not show any symptoms, or called the latent period. After 5-10 years of syphilis the disease will attack the brain nervous system, blood vessels and heart. In pregnant women syphilis can be transmitted to the baby and be born with damage to the skin, liver, spleen and mental retardation.
Many people mistakenly believe. They think oral sex is safe. In fact, sex in this way has proven to be infectious syphilis. Once the report published Center for Disease Control Prevention and the United States (CDCP) in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Added, the wound in the mouth due to syphilis, in turn, further increased the risk of HIV infection.
"Those who are in long-term monogamous relationships are not bound and perform oral sex, you should still use protection, like condoms, to reduce the risk of sexually transmitted diseases," said a research team from the Chicago Department of Public Health led by Dr. C. Ciesielski.
In monitoring what they do, the team found that the continued spread of syphilis through oral sex. The pattern of transmission that they are watching is changed in the period 1998 to 2002. When in the 1990s syphilis occurs only in the heterosexual, since 2001 the number of men who have sex with other men was recorded almost 60 percent.
Between 2000 and 2002 a team led Ciesielski also interviewed those affected by syphilis. The result, more than 14 percent of cases of syphilis infections occur through oral sex. This amount dlaporkan by 20 percent and 7 percent of gay men and heterosexual women.
Figures do not include transmission through oral sex which may occur at the relevant time also engage in intercourse. The danger, people with syphilis in the mouth may not show symptoms. The wound in the mouth commonly misunderstood as sprue or herpes. Whereas, in the wounds were hidden germs that cause syphilis.
Syphilis can be treated with penicillin or other antibiotics. According to statistics, treatment with the pill less effective than other treatments, because patients usually do not complete treatment. How to oldest and still effective is the injection of procaine penicillin in each buttock (procaine opted to reduce the pain); dose should be given a half in each buttock because when used as a dose will cause pain. Another way is to give azithromycin capsules by mouth (has a long duration) and must be observed. This method may fail because there are several types of syphilis resistant to azithromycin and about 10% of cases occurred in 2004. Other treatments are less effective because the patient is required to take pills several times per day.
Germs cause called Treponema pallidum. The period without symptoms lasted 3-4 weeks, sometimes up to 13 weeks. Then comes the bump around the genitals. Sometimes accompanied by dizziness and flu-like bone pain, which will go away without treatment. There are red spots on the body about 6-12 weeks after sex. These symptoms will disappear by itself and often the patient does not notice this.
During the first 2-3 years of this disease does not show any symptoms, or called the latent period. After 5-10 years of syphilis the disease will attack the brain nervous system, blood vessels and heart. In pregnant women syphilis can be transmitted to the baby and be born with damage to the skin, liver, spleen and mental retardation.
Many people mistakenly believe. They think oral sex is safe. In fact, sex in this way has proven to be infectious syphilis. Once the report published Center for Disease Control Prevention and the United States (CDCP) in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Added, the wound in the mouth due to syphilis, in turn, further increased the risk of HIV infection.
"Those who are in long-term monogamous relationships are not bound and perform oral sex, you should still use protection, like condoms, to reduce the risk of sexually transmitted diseases," said a research team from the Chicago Department of Public Health led by Dr. C. Ciesielski.
In monitoring what they do, the team found that the continued spread of syphilis through oral sex. The pattern of transmission that they are watching is changed in the period 1998 to 2002. When in the 1990s syphilis occurs only in the heterosexual, since 2001 the number of men who have sex with other men was recorded almost 60 percent.
Between 2000 and 2002 a team led Ciesielski also interviewed those affected by syphilis. The result, more than 14 percent of cases of syphilis infections occur through oral sex. This amount dlaporkan by 20 percent and 7 percent of gay men and heterosexual women.
Figures do not include transmission through oral sex which may occur at the relevant time also engage in intercourse. The danger, people with syphilis in the mouth may not show symptoms. The wound in the mouth commonly misunderstood as sprue or herpes. Whereas, in the wounds were hidden germs that cause syphilis.
Syphilis can be treated with penicillin or other antibiotics. According to statistics, treatment with the pill less effective than other treatments, because patients usually do not complete treatment. How to oldest and still effective is the injection of procaine penicillin in each buttock (procaine opted to reduce the pain); dose should be given a half in each buttock because when used as a dose will cause pain. Another way is to give azithromycin capsules by mouth (has a long duration) and must be observed. This method may fail because there are several types of syphilis resistant to azithromycin and about 10% of cases occurred in 2004. Other treatments are less effective because the patient is required to take pills several times per day.