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SYPHILIS

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Syphilis is bacterial infection that is usually spread by sexual contact that starts as a painless sore. Syphilis develops in stages, and symptoms can be different with each stage as it progresses.

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Syphilis can be treated with an antibiotic called penicillin. Penicillin is the preferred drug to be used to treat syphilis in all stages, but if you are allergic to penicillin your doctor may suggest a different antibiotic or penicillin desensitization. Penicillin is preferred to be used as treatment because this medication can kill the organism that causes syphilis.

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Symptoms of syphilis on the skin includes rashes, small bumps, or ulcers. Symptoms of syphilis in the groin region include painless ulcers, sores, vaginal discharge, or wet-like growths on genitals. Other common symptoms of syphilis include fatigue, itching, mouth ulcer, rash on the palms and soles, sore throat, swollen lymph nodes, weight loss, or rectal lining inflammation.

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Syphilis is treatable, but treatment might not undo any damage caused from the infection.

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Long term effects of syphilis that goes untreated is damage to the brain, eyes, heart, nerves, bones, joints, and liver. More effects of untreated syphilis include becoming paralyzed, blindness, demented, or feeling lost in the body.

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Syphilis is caused by a bacteria called Treponema pallidum. Syphilis is transmitted from person to person via direct contact with a syphilitic sore.

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A woman that is pregnant and goes untreated for syphilis takes a risk that the baby will be stillborn or die from the infection as a newborn. 40% of babies that are born from a mother that has syphilis that has not been treated are stillborn at birth or die soon after the birth. The babies that are born with syphilis and do not die can have bone damage, jaundice, nerve problems that cause blindness or deafness, meningitis, or skin rashes.