Table of contents:
- Symptoms of syphilis (syphilis) according to the stage of development
- 1. The primary stage
- 2. Secondary stage
- 3.The latent (hidden) stage
- 4. The final stage
- Symptoms of syphilis (syphilis) in the brain
- Symptoms of congenital syphilis (syphilis)
Syphilis or syphilis (lion king) is a venereal disease that causes long-term complications if not treated properly. Signs or symptoms of syphilis (syphilis) in adults are different, for both men and women. This depends on the stage of disease progression.
In order to recognize the symptoms of syphilis or the lion king, consider the following explanation, let's go!
Symptoms of syphilis (syphilis) according to the stage of development
Syphilis develops gradually with varying symptoms.
However, the symptoms often occur simultaneously at each stage and are not always sequential.
Quoted from the Mayo Clinic, you may be infected with syphilis and don't feel any symptoms for years.
The following are various symptoms or characteristics of syphilis (lion king) based on the stages of the disease:
1. The primary stage
In the primary stage, a painless wound will appear where the bacteria first entered the body.
This usually occurs within 3 weeks of the initial entry of bacteria with a period ranging from 10-90 days.
If you are in this primary stage, you can easily pass the bacteria that cause syphilis to other people.
The following symptoms are caused by primary stage syphilis (syphilis):
- In men, these sores often appear on the genital area, usually (but not always) on the penis. These sores are often painful.
- In women, sores can develop on the outside of the genitals or on the inside of the vagina, but are painless (chancre).
- Lymph node development can occur in the area around the wound.
- The sores can occur in other parts of the body besides the genitals.
The sores usually last 3-6 weeks and can heal without treatment. However, the wound may leave a thin mark.
Even though the wound has healed, it doesn't mean that syphilis has also disappeared. You can still pass syphilis to other people while you are in this condition.
2. Secondary stage
This stage is characterized by a rash that appears for 2-12 weeks after the wound develops.
The rash usually develops all over the body, but is more common on the palms and feet.
During this secondary stage there may also be other symptoms that indicate that the infection has spread throughout the body.
You are at great risk of passing syphilis to other people when you are in the secondary stage.
Symptoms or features caused by syphilis or the secondary stage of the lion king are:
- The rash, which looks like a common skin problem, generally appears reddish brown, small, dense, flat or raised on the skin less than 2 centimeters (cm) high.
- There are small open sores on the mucous membrane in the layers of the skin.
- There are pus-filled sores or sores that are moist, such as warts.
- In people with dark skin, the color of the wound may appear lighter than the surrounding skin.
The skin rash usually clears up on its own within 2 months without scarring.
After the healing is complete, the skin color will change.
However, even after the wound has healed, syphilis will still be contagious to other people.
When syphilis (syphilis) spreads throughout the body, you may experience the following symptoms:
- Fever (usually not more than 38.3 degrees Celsius).
- Sore throat.
- The body feels weak and uncomfortable.
- Weight loss.
- Hair loss, especially on the eyebrows, eyelashes, and scalp.
- Swollen lymph nodes.
- Stiff neck, headache, irritability, paralysis, inappropriate reflexes, and irregular eye movement.
3.The latent (hidden) stage
If you don't get treatment, your syphilis (syphilis) symptoms will progress to a latent stage.
This is the stage after a person is infected with syphilis or the lion king.
After the rash in secondary syphilis goes away, a person will not have any symptoms for some time or will have a latent stage.
This stage may be quite short, i.e. 1 year or it can be quite long between 5-20 years.
During this stage, an accurate diagnosis can only be made through blood tests, experience with certain symptoms, or giving birth to a baby with congenital syphilis.
If no symptoms appear, you run the risk of transmitting the virus during the early latent and latent stages.
4. The final stage
The final stage is the most contagious period in the development of syphilis.
If not treated promptly, this late stage may appear as early as 1 year after infection.
In fact, the symptoms that are caused in the late stages of syphilis (syphilis) can be seen at any time.
This stage will cause serious blood vessel and heart problems, mental disorders, blindness, nervous system problems, and even death.
Late stage signs depend on the complications that develop. Various complications of syphilis (lion king) include:
- Gummata, large sores on the body or on the skin.
- Cardiovascular syphilis, which affects the heart and blood vessels.
- Neurosypilis, which affects the nervous system.
Symptoms of syphilis (syphilis) in the brain
Without treatment, syphilis can spread to any organ in your body, including the brain (called neurosyphilis) and eyes (called ocular syphilis or eye syphilis).
This type of syphilis can occur at any stage, whether it is primary, secondary, latent, or late.
The symptoms of syphilis that attack the brain are as follows:
- Severe headache
- Difficult to regulate muscle movement.
- Paralyzed or unable to move parts of your body).
- Eye taste.
- Dementia.
Meanwhile, syphilis in the eye will show symptoms in the form of changes in your vision ability, even causing blindness.
Symptoms of congenital syphilis (syphilis)
Babies born to women with syphilis can become infected with the bacteria that cause syphilis through the placenta during labor.
Most babies with this condition do not develop any conditions.
However, there are also babies who experience the following characteristics of syphilis or lion king:
- Rash on the palms and feet.
- Deaf.
- Tooth deformities.
- Saddle nose, which is a condition when the bridge of the nose is damaged.
Babies born with syphilis may also be born too early (prematurely), are stillborn (stillbirth), or died after childbirth.
Tell your doctor right away if you experience the above symptoms of syphilis.
In fact, if necessary, there is nothing wrong with doing routine checks to see the condition of your reproductive health.
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