STD - Infection That Are Passed From One Person To Another Through Sexual Contact. The Causes of Stds
STD - Infection That Are Passed From One Person To Another Through Sexual Contact. The Causes of Stds
STD - Infection That Are Passed From One Person To Another Through Sexual Contact. The Causes of Stds
Diagnosis
- Blood tests. Can confirm the diagnosis of HIV or later stages of syphilis
- Urine samples. Some STIs can be confirmed with a urine sample
- Fluid samples. If you have active genital sores, testing fluid and samples from the sores may be
done to diagnose the type of infection. Laboratory tests of material from a genital sore or
discharge are used to diagnose some STIs
Types of STDs
Chlamydia
Symptoms
There are lab tests to diagnose chlamydia. Health care providers may ask you to provide a urine
sample. For women, providers sometimes use a cotton swab to get a sample from the vagina to
test for chlamydia
Treatment
Antibiotics will cure the infection. You may get a one time dose of the antibiotics or you may need to
take medicine every day for 7 days.
Genital Herpes
Also called as Herpes genitalis
A sexually transmitted disease caused by a herpes simplex virus (HSV).
Can cause sores on the genital or rectal area, buttocks, and thighs.
Mothers can also infect their babies during childbirth
Symptoms
Treatment
Intermittent treatment – Your doctor may prescribe an antiviral drug to keep on hand incase
you have another flare-up, you can take the pills for two to five days as soon as you notice sores
or when you feel an outbreak coming on.
Suppresive treatment – taking an antiviral drug every day
Gonorrhea
Symptoms
Gonorrhea does not always cause symptoms. In men, gonorrhea can cause pain when urinating and
discharge from the penis. If untreated, it can cause problems with the prostate and testicles.
In women, the early symptoms of gonorrhea often are mild. Later, it can cause bleeding between
periods, pain when urinating and increased discharge from the vagina. If untreated, it can lead to pelvic
inflammatory disease which causes problems with pregnancy and infertility.
Treatment
Recommended treatment for gonorrhea are antibiotics either ceftriaxone or cefixime administered as an
injection.
HIV/AIDS
HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus
It harms your immune system by destroying the white blood cells that fight infection
Symptoms
Fever
Chills
Sore throat
Swollen lymph nodes
Rash
Mouth ulcers
Treatment
There are five major types of medicine:
Reverse transcriptase inhibitors – interfere with a critical step during the HIV life cycle and keep the
virus from making copies of itself
Protease inhibitor – interfere with a protein that HIV uses to make infectious viral particles
Fusion inhibitors – block the virus from entering the body’s cells
Integrase inhibitors – block an enzyme HIV needs to make copies of itself
Multidrug inhibitors – combine two or more different types of drugs into one