What are the symptoms of a sexually transmitted infection?
What is syphilis?
Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection that can be treated with antibiotic therapy. It is necessary to manage the infection, because if untreated, the risk of heart, brain, muscle, bone, eye damage increases significantly.
For prevention, it is necessary to have a safe intimate relationship.
It spreads with an infected person through vaginal, oral or anal sex. The cause is bacteria.
Symptoms
Symptoms vary and depend on the stage of infection.
You are especially contagious in the early stages when you don't notice symptoms.
In the first stage, one or more ulcers appear on the genitals.
In the second stage, you will notice a rash and flu-like symptoms (fatigue, fever, muscle pain, sore throat).
After the second stage, the symptoms of syphilis are hidden (latent stage). You are not worried about the symptoms, although the infection has not disappeared anywhere, syphilis is still in your body and will be until you start treatment with the appropriate antibiotic.
Rarely, however, syphilis can also be transmitted by kissing, that is, when you have direct contact with a syphilis sore.
This infection also causes problems in pregnancy - if a pregnant woman has syphilis and is not treated, the baby will also become infected.
