Syphilis is a fairly common disease that is transmitted through sexual contact with a sick person. The complexity of diagnosis and treatment is that it is often mistaken for a completely different disease (for example, gonorrhea, mycoureaplasma, chlamydia, etc.).
The causative agent of infection is pale treponema, which moves in different directions (translationally, rotationally, wavy and pendulum-like). It should be noted that the infection is most often transmitted through semen, secrets, excreta of the patient, with breast milk. A variety of household syphilis is distinguished when the disease spreads through household items and personal hygiene products (dishes, a towel, a toothbrush).
As a rule, a month after the infection penetrates the body, the first sign appears - this is a syphilitic rash. At first, the syphilitic rash is a small spot of a reddish hue, which gradually turns into an ulcer. Additional signs of infection are general malaise, joint pain, fever, weakness, and headaches. After 1-2 weeks, the rash disappears, but the disease continues to affect the human body. After some time, a syphilitic rash appears again and again, very often 3-5 years or even decades.
With secondary syphilis, other types of rash already appear : papules (elevations) of a faded color, pustules (purulent rash) of a bluish or brownish color, leukoderma. Moreover, often on the body of a sick person there are several types of rashes, the elements of which are carriers of infection.
With tertiary syphilis, the rash takes the form of tubercles and gum reddish-cyanotic. By touch, it is easy enough to identify seals that can be grouped into rings or be single. Gum healing takes place gradually: first, an ulcer is formed, after which it dries up, and a scar remains on the surface of the skin.
Of course, if there is a rash around the nipple or on any other part of the body that causes suspicion, then you need to contact a medical institution, where specialists will conduct a comprehensive study. As a rule, the main treatment is the use of antibiotic therapy. The patient is prescribed a course of antibiotics, the effect of which is destructively reflected in the causative agent of the infection.
It should be noted that syphilitic rash in the early stages of syphilis is treated with penicillin preparations. With mass death of treponema, a patient may experience a side effect, which manifests itself in the form of fever, nausea and vomiting, headaches, etc. In this case, the patient is prescribed an aspirin-containing drug.
It is important in the treatment of syphilis to exclude the presence of other diseases that may appear on the background of the first. For example, very often syphilis increases the risk of HIV infection in a person, as there is a sharp decrease in the body's immune defenses. Therefore, it is advisable to conduct a full course of treatment and eliminate all the causative agents of infection within.
Preventive measures are quite effective. These include the conduct of a preventive examination, personal hygiene (the use of personal care products), the absence of promiscuous sexual intercourse without the use of contraceptives (condoms), etc. There are medications that can treat the affected area within two hours after infection. This is necessary, for example, in personal contact with a person on whose body there is a syphilitic rash or ulcers. The causative agent of infection for the first hours is on the surface of the skin, so it can be easily eliminated.