Prevention of syphilis should begin with a lifestyle. Do not take casual sex as a matter of course. Believe me, no thrills are worth the long months spent in the hospital for treatment for a very serious illness. If your partner does not give reason to not trust him, and you know each other enough to maintain a serious relationship, then the risk of contracting syphilis is minimized.
However, no one is safe from mistakes, and there is no need to rush to condemn those who committed a rash act. If it happened that you still had sexual contact with a random person, and even more so if you did not use a condom, do not hesitate, be safe and follow the following algorithm.
Try to get to a medical institution where they treat syphilis within two hours. Prevention of this disease in such institutions is also one of the main activities, and you will certainly be accepted. Now it is necessary to treat the genitals and other parts of the body where infection can occur. This procedure helps prevent the development of the disease. A week after this visit, you need to visit the venereologist again to undergo a second examination and fix the results.
If for some objective reason you could not visit a doctor after unprotected intercourse, then a few weeks after it you need to be examined for diseases transmitted in this way, including syphilis. Diagnostics carried out earlier than the specified period will not give accurate objective results, because the incubation period will not be completed.
Do not self-medicate - do not waste time on unnecessary or even harmful actions. If your relationship with your partner develops rapidly, invite him to be tested for syphilis and other infections. If your relationship is dear to him, and trust is their fundamental element for both of you, then the survey will take place.
Syphilis can be infected in a household way. This happens if healthy people live in the same house or apartment with an infected person. Prevention of syphilis in this case consists in strict and constant observance of all the rules of personal hygiene, namely:
- everyone should use only their dishes, they need to be washed in hot water using a bactericidal agent.
- items such as a washcloth, towel, razor and others should be separate for everyone, and they also need to be stored in separate places.
- all intimate contacts with the patient should be excluded - there should be not only sexual intercourse with the carrier of the disease, but even kisses.
Prevention of syphilis should be carried out at the public level. It is carried out according to the same scheme by which the prevention of other diseases that are transmitted sexually.
This is a regular medical examination of citizens who are more at risk of getting syphilis (these are drug addicts, prostitutes, homosexuals). It is also necessary to examine pregnant women. Women in position are tested repeatedly to avoid risk. It is necessary to keep a strict record of patients with syphilis, regularly examine their family members and sexual partners. Need control of treatment for syphilis, preventive examinations of recovered. Many organizations have introduced mandatory medical examinations of employees, without a certificate of passage which people are not allowed to work. This is especially true for educational institutions, organizations involved in catering and so on.
Prevention of syphilis is a reliable protection against a serious illness. Do not take your health and your life lightly.