Syphilis is a serious skin disease that poses significant risks. Preventing syphilis and the precautions for preventing syphilis are the key areas that we need to focus on. So, how to prevent syphilis? What are the precautions for preventing syphilis? Next, the editor will provide a detailed introduction to this aspect for everyone.
How to prevent syphilis
1. Suspected patients should undergo preventive examinations and syphilis serum tests in order to detect new patients early and receive timely treatment;
2. Patients with syphilis must be forcibly isolated and treated. The patient's clothing and supplies, such as towels, clothes, razors, tableware, bedding, etc., must be strictly disinfected under the guidance of medical personnel to eliminate the source of infection;
3. Track the patient's sexual partner, including self reporting by the patient and visits by medical personnel, identify all sexual contacts of the patient, conduct preventive examinations, track and observe, and provide necessary treatment. Spouses who have not been cured are strictly prohibited from engaging in sexual activity;
4. Pregnant women suspected of having syphilis should receive timely preventive treatment to prevent the transmission of syphilis to the fetus; Unmarried male and female patients cannot get married without treatment.
What should be paid attention to in preventing syphilis
1. Hand contact with syphilis patients is not contagious. The rash of syphilis not only grows on the coronal sulcus, foreskin, glans, and scrotum, but also on the fingers, lips, and eyelids. The wound surface of primary syphilis contains a lot of Treponema pallidum, which can enter the human body through damaged skin and mucous membranes, and may be transmitted to others. Because many people are not aware of minor injuries on their hands, shaking hands with syphilis patients can easily lead to falling victim. Even if the rash does not grow on the hands, if syphilis patients shake hands with others without washing their hands when urinating, it can still cause "trouble". Therefore, the doctor will label the syphilis test report as dangerous to prevent occupational transmission by the testing personnel.
2. Sexual transmission is the only way of transmission. Sexual contact is a major route of transmission for syphilis, but syphilis can also be transmitted through other routes, one of which is indirect infection. Normal human skin and mucous membranes have a certain degree of immunity, which can resist various harmful substances entering the body. Once the normal defense ability of the skin is breached (such as epidermal damage), contact with bathing equipment, clothing, etc. containing Treponema pallidum, or direct contact with damaged skin and mucous membranes of patients, it is possible for Treponema pallidum to enter the human body and cause disease. Therefore, syphilis patients should pay attention to personal and public hygiene, wash their hands before and after using the toilet, and do not use other people's belongings to avoid harming others and themselves.
3. Not willing to undergo comprehensive testing for sexually transmitted disease pathogens. Some syphilis patients only require treatment and are unwilling to spend money on a set of tests for the main sexually transmitted pathogens. Little do they know, as the partner of unclean sexual intercourse is often not a single sexual partner, they may contract different sexually transmitted diseases from different sexual partners. Therefore, people who have already contracted a certain sexually transmitted disease or are suspected of having a sexually transmitted disease should undergo laboratory tests for multiple major pathogens to confirm whether there are complications and facilitate timely treatment.
4. Treat yourself, not your sexual partner. Syphilis can be transmitted to sexual partners through sexual activity, and if their sexual partners are not treated simultaneously, it can lead to a relapse of the patient's condition. Therefore, some sexually transmitted disease patients relapse multiple times after being cured, because they have cured themselves without letting their spouse treat them, and as a result, they suffer from the same disease multiple times through sexual intercourse between spouses. Repeated treatments afterwards can easily lead to drug resistance effects, making diseases that could have been cured quickly a difficult problem. Therefore, once a patient finds out that they have a sexually transmitted disease, for the safety of themselves and their family, they should openly inform their spouse and go to the hospital for examination and treatment at the same time.
5. Syphilis can provide lifelong immunity. Some syphilis patients believe that after receiving syphilis once, they will be immune for life. When infected with syphilis, the body does not develop specific immunity to Treponema pallidum, so syphilis cannot be immune for life and can still be reinfected after recovery and contact. So, people who have suffered from syphilis in the past should still keep themselves clean.
6. Using a condom can isolate the virus. Treponema pallidum is widely present on the surface of the skin and mucous membranes of syphilis patients, as well as in their saliva, milk, semen, and urine. After entering the human body from damaged skin and mucous membranes, it invades nearby lymph nodes within a few hours and spreads throughout the body through blood circulation within 2-3 days. After a latent period of about 3 weeks, the first stage of syphilis occurs at the site of invasion. Afterwards, the body produces antibodies, most of the spirochetes are killed, and the chancre naturally disappears, entering the asymptomatic latent period, which is the first stage of latent syphilis. If the syphilis recurs within 6 months to 2 years, it is called secondary recurrent syphilis. Due to the fact that syphilis is painless and can heal on its own even when a rash appears, it is not easy to attract the attention of patients. According to a survey, if a male has primary syphilis and has sexual intercourse with a female, the probability of a female being "tricked" is as high as 60% -70%, and even if a condom is used, there is still a 30% failure rate.
The above is some content about preventing syphilis introduced by the editor, hoping to be helpful to everyone. Syphilis is also closely related to personal hygiene issues. The editor suggests that friends should develop a clean and hygienic lifestyle, wash their hands frequently, take showers frequently, and clean their homes frequently.
