Sexually transmitted diseases must be checked together with a partner

Of course, no one wants to get a sexually transmitted disease (STD). This disease, which is also known as venereal disease, is an infection that is transmitted through sexual activity. Even though you have become a married couple (couple), it is not impossible for you to get venereal disease. In fact, many couples have contracted venereal diseases many times. This phenomenon is known as the ping pong effect. So, it is very important to keep doing health checks together with your partner.

Check both of you, don't be alone

Checking for venereal disease is something everyone must do, especially those of you who are sexually active.

You may think that tests like this are only suitable for people who are at risk, such as people who frequently change sexual partners or who have risky sex.

In fact, venereal disease can be experienced by anyone, even couples who have sex safely. This is because venereal disease is not only transmitted through sexual contact. For example, when you kiss a relative or nephew who has oral herpes during a family reunion. You are at risk of contracting the herpes simplex virus. This virus can develop into genital herpes, which is a herpes infection that attacks the genitals.

However, it is not enough if you go to the doctor alone. Your partner should also be examined, even if your partner has not felt any symptoms. Since sexual intercourse involves two people, examination and treatment for venereal disease also involves two people.

If you go to a doctor without a partner, you are both at risk of experiencing the ping-pong effect, which is when certain venereal diseases are not completely cured, but are only "passed" from husband to wife, then from wife back to husband, and so on.

Understand the effects of ping pong on venereal diseases

The ping pong effect is a condition in which a venereal disease contracted by the husband is then transmitted to the wife (or vice versa, it does not matter who first got the disease and transmitted it). From the wife, the disease will later be transmitted back to the husband who had previously recovered.

Then and so on, from a husband who is hit again will be transmitted to his wife again. Just like playing ping pong, where ping pong balls are only passed to one another.

How can ping pong effect a couple?

To understand how the ping pong effect works, consider the following example. When a wife has a venereal disease but is not aware of it, the disease can quickly pass to her husband through sex. After the wife realizes that she has venereal disease, the wife will go to a doctor first, without a husband. The reason is, the wife does not know that the virus or bacteria has moved to her husband as well.

After seeing the doctor, the wife began to get better. However, the husband who did not participate in the treatment at that time was still suffering from venereal disease, but the symptoms had not yet appeared. When a couple has sex again, the husband's venereal disease that has not been treated eventually "returns" to the wife who is almost cured. The wife finally got the same disease again.

Maybe some time after that, the husband realized that he was also suffering from a disease like his wife. Then the husband went to seek treatment alone, without the wife's knowledge. In fact, both of them did not realize that their wife had been infected again from their husband.

This will continue to happen if only one partner is examined and treated. Even though the treatment has been completed, one other person still has an infectious disease that can easily spread to the other person.

For that, when you are paired and experience venereal disease like this, you should do a venereal disease examination together. That way, you can avoid the risk of the ping pong effect.

Common symptoms of sexually transmitted diseases

By knowing the various symptoms that may occur when you have a sexually transmitted disease, you can see a doctor more quickly and get the right treatment. The following are the symptoms of the disease that are often reported.