Can syphilis be cured?

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Syphilis is a dangerous infectious disease caused by bacteria. Syphilis can cause many complications if not detected and treated early. If the patient is detected early, treatment is easier and less complications for health are left.

1. What is syphilis?

Syphilis is considered a dangerous social disease mainly transmitted sexually.
The cause of the disease is a spirochete of syphilis with the scientific name Treponema pallidum. It can spread very quickly and seriously affect reproductive health and general health. Especially if not treated early, it can affect organs such as the heart, eyes, brain... Syphilis can be transmitted through the following ways:
Sexual transmission: This is the way of transmission. The main infection of syphilis is through sores in the genitals. Mother-to-child transmission: Babies born to mothers with syphilis can be infected with syphilis while in the womb. Sharing personal belongings with an infected person can cause syphilis to enter the body. Some items such as face towels, towels, toothbrushes, pillows, blankets.... Transmission by blood: Such as contact with open lesions of infected people, blood transfusion... Disease Syphilis is divided into 3 stages as follows:
Stage 1: It is about 3-4 weeks from infection. The patient appears one or more shallow erosions, round or oval in shape, without high ridges on the surface, about 0.5 - 2cm in size, clearly and regularly demarcated, the bottom is clean and red. Fresh meat, hard background. This sore is also known as a chancre and is usually painless. The most common syphilis chancre is in the genital mucosa: In women, chancres will often be seen on the labia majora, labia minora, and vulva margins. For men, it is common in the glans penis, mouth flute, penis, scrotum... In addition, syphilis chancres can also be found in the anus, mouth, lips, tongue... After 5 to 6 days, the inguinal lymph nodes will swell and become very large and clustered. Stage 2 syphilis: This stage is 6 to 9 months from infection. At this stage, the patient will have more symptoms including: The rash is red and pink patches scattered on the trunk; Syphilitic papules with various forms such as red infiltrative papules and may have surrounding scaly, psoriatic-like papules, necrotic papules, hypertrophic papules of this type are common in the anus and genital organs. ; hair loss; headache, fatigue, joint pain... There are also some people with unclear expression. Stage 3 syphilis: This is considered the final stage of syphilis, when syphilis spirochetes have damaged many organs in the body. The current spirochete in addition to causing damage to the genitals, it also invades organs such as the heart, liver, brain, etc., greatly affecting the health of the patient if not treated. At this time, the patient shows typical symptoms including: Syphilis gum appears on the skin, muscles and bones, motor paralysis, severe headache, numbness, mental confusion... In general, the disease if Treated at an early stage will be effective and do not cause dangerous complications.

2. Can syphilis be cured?

Is syphilis curable or syphilis curable are things that patients often ask. As we know syphilis is a disease caused by bacteria, so it is possible to kill this bacteria with suitable antibiotics.
Depending on each stage of treatment, it is necessary to coordinate with measures to help restore damage caused by syphilis. If treated early, almost all skin lesions will heal and heal completely, but if treated at the latest, in the late stages, severe damage to organs in the body is very difficult to recover or recover. unrecoverable.
In addition, one thing to note is that you can completely get reinfected with spirochetes of syphilis if you do not practice infection prevention measures. Because antibodies only last for a while after getting sick, they do not give you lifelong protection. Therefore, it is important to avoid reinfection by taking preventive measures.

3. Measures to prevent syphilis

Although syphilis is dangerous, we can prevent it with the following measures:
Propaganda, education for a healthy lifestyle, and being faithful to a husband and wife. Safe sex behavior, protected sex by using condoms. If you are sick, you need to go to a medical facility for examination and treatment immediately, do not buy medicine for treatment on your own. To prevent congenital syphilis, it is necessary to detect and treat pregnant women early. So, hopefully through the article you have answered the question of whether syphilis is curable. If there are any signs that suspect the disease, you should go to the doctor and have tests to help detect the disease.
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