Archive for the 'Sexually Transmitted Diseases' Category

Chlamydia is caused by a tiny bacterium called Chlamydia trachomatis.

It is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) that can spread easily through sexual intercourse with an infected person.

It also spreads from mother to child during pregnancy.

Chlamydia treatment is easy and effective with antibiotics azithromycin and doxycycline.

For effective results, you need to continue the treatment according to the prescribed dosage.

It is also important to stay away from sexual activities until the infection is treated completely.

Remember that you can get re-infected with chlamydia trachomatis if your sexual partner is left untreated.

On the other hand, if you are with chlamydia and left your condition untreated then the infection can pass into the uterus and cause another sexual transmitted disease called PID (Pelvic Inflammatory Disease), which can easily damage the reproductive parts. It also leads to infertility or ectopic pregnancy.

The Chlamydia trachomatis damage a woman’s reproductive organs: the cervix, the urethra, and the fallopian tubes. As the chlamydia symptoms are very mild or absent, you may have permanent damages to the organs before you recognize the infection or disease in the body.

Syphilis is a most widespread curable sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by a type of bacteria called Treponema pallidum.

Actually, a person could get infected with syphilis infection through direct contact with a syphilis sore of an infected person.

These sores, generally, occur on the outer genitals, vagina, anus, or in the rectum. These can also occur on the lips and in the mouth.

In general, the syphilis infection progresses in four stages: primary, secondary, latent (hidden), and tertiary (late). Moreover, the syphilis symptoms differ at each stage.

Primary Stage

This is the first stage of syphilis. Generally, the syphilis symptoms in this stage typically begin three weeks after you become infected.

Normally, the first symptom of primary syphilis is known by the emergence of sores called chancres, which are small, round, firm, and painless.

You can notice these sores at the spots where syphilis entered your body, generally, on the outer genitals or on the inner part of the vagina. You can also notice swelling of the lymph nodes near the chancre area.

HIV/AIDS, which most of you believe to be a single term referring to an infection that is controllable and treatable.

Actually speaking, Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), which is the last and most serious stage of HIV disease resulting from the specific injures to the immune system.

Today, HIV/AIDS is becoming an epidemic, infecting millions of people worldwide.

Aids have no cure or vaccine but you have antiretroviral medication, known as HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy) to slow the development from HIV to AIDS.

With HAART, you can recover from HIV/AIDS and live with HIV for a very long time. HAART, a great treatment option is now being recommended by United States National Institutes of Health to all patients with AIDS.

Actually, this virus is transmitted from person to person through blood exchange, oral sex, unhygienic hypodermic needles, or blood transfusion or from mother to the baby during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding.

In fact, you do not experience HIV/AIDS symptoms in the early stages. Moreover, the time it takes for AIDS symptoms to appear depends upon person to person. You feel and look healthy for years although you are attacked with AIDS virus.

Genital herpes, also called herpes, is a viral infection caused by herpes simplex viruses (HSV).

Two types of viruses are associated with genital herpes: HSV-1 and HSV-2.

It is found that one out of every five in the United States is infected with genital herpes.

More than 45 million Americans are affected with genital herpes.

Currently, you have no genital herpes treatment available to cure the disease.

However, home remedies can heal the herpes symptoms and improves your immune system to prevent the re-emergence of the disease.

On the other hand, there are antiviral medications to treat the disease. Zovirax (acyclovir), Famvir (famciclovir) and Valtrex (valacyclovir).

Therefore, the aim of genital herpes treatment is to reduce the symptoms. Moreover, it has no side effects.

Genital herpes is one of the most common sexual transmitted diseases (STD) that can spread from person-to-person through direct contact in the infected region, including unprotected sexual activity, kissing or skin-to-skin contact.

The other sexual transmitted diseases are gonorrhea [Gonorrhea Symptoms], chlamydia [Chlamydia Symptoms], HIV/AIDS, pelvic inflammatory disease and many more.

Gonorrhea is a highly infectious and most common sexually transmitted disease that is caused by a bacterium called Neisseria gonorrhoeae, which infects the reproductive organs.

It initially starts in the cervix, then spread to the fallopian tubes and the urethra. It also infects the anus, mouth, throat, and eyes.

Gonorrhea treatment is available in the form of antibiotic therapy. Gonorrhea, when treated in the early stage (before you development any long-term health problems) can provide effective results.

For this, it is essential to follow the treatment regularly as directed by the doctor and avoid sexual activities until you get cured completely.

Gonorrhea is also known as “the clap” or “the drip.” when this sexually transmitted disease is left untreated, then the bacteria can attack the reproductive system or can enter the bloodstream and spread the infection to the joints, heart valves, and brain.

It can also lead to another sexual transmitted disease called pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), an infection of woman’s reproductive organs.

Sexually transmitted diseases are the diseases that can transmit easily through sexual intercourse with an infected person. On the other hand, gonorrhea can spread through the exchange of body fluids (blood, saliva) of an infected person. [Gonorrhea Symptoms]

Genital Warts are also known as Condyloma or Condylomata acuminata.

It is one of the most common and highly contagious sexual transmitted diseases and is caused by Human Papilloma Virus (HPV).

The most common types of HPV that cause genital warts are HPV-6 and HPV-11.

Currently, you have no cure for genital warts. On the other hand, you have genital wart treatment options to treat the condition.

However, the treatment option for your condition completely depends on the factors such as severity, location and symptoms of the warts.

Genital warts generally form on the genital areas: in the vagina, on the vulva, cervix, or anus. The warts generally appear as single or as a bunch of gritty, hard bumps. However, if the warts are left untreated, they can develop and resemble as cauliflowers.

It is better to have genital wart treatment in the beginning only. But, in general, you will be unaware of the warts because of having no symptoms. Remember that genital wart treatment can be done at home or at doctor’s clinic.

Always keep in mind that regular warts differ from genital warts. The genital warts generally develop on sensitive areas of your body. So, never make use of regular warts treatment options for genital wart treatment.

Having fishy odor from the vaginal area! It occurs due to an inflammation of the vaginal area that is an infection in the region of the vagina.

The infection that causes this fishy odor is Bacterial Vaginosis (BV).

The symptoms of bacterial vaginosis are asymptomatic almost all the time. With bacterial vaginosis, you will be unaware of the condition.

It is found that fifty percent of women with bacterial vaginosis exhibit no noticeable symptoms of bacterial vaginosis.

In some cases, you may have noticed things such as vaginal discharge more than normal or an abnormal strong and fishy odor with vaginal lubrication and may have neglected by assuming them to be nothing important.

However, vaginal discharge and vaginal odor are the most common symptoms of bacterial vaginosis.

The symptoms, vaginal discharge and the strong fishy odor, which characterize bacterial vaginosis occurs due to the overgrowth of normal bacteria that usually present within the vagina.

Thus, bacterial vaginosis refers to a change in the natural balance of the healthy bacteria in the vagina. It is also known as Gardnerella-associated Vaginitis or simply Vaginitis. It was named after the bacteria, Gardnerella, that caused the condition.

Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) is one of the most common causes of sexually transmitted infection (STI) in these days.

The examples of sexual transmitted diseases are gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia and so on.

It has been found that, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 6.2 million new cases of sexually transmitted HPV infections are raising each year.

HPV virus causes sexual transmitted infections such as genital warts, cervical cancer. You can acquire this HPV virus through direct skin-to-skin contact during oral, genital, or anal sex with an infected person.

However, when this infection doesn’t vanish on its own then abnormal cells can grow in the lining of the cervix, which when left untreated can become cervical pre-cancers and then cervical cancers.

It is fact that there are over 100 different types of HPV virus, which are categorized into high risk and low risk types. Out of all these, 30 HPV virus types spread through sexual contact.

Some types of HPV virus cause genital warts where a single or multiple bumps are visible in the genital areas of women such as the vagina, cervix and vulva (area outside of the vagina). These are classified as low risk types.