What symptom does child syphilis have?

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Syphilis, as a highly infectious venereal disease, has always been something we can't avoid. Many people think that the disease can only be transmitted through sexual contact. However, mother to child transmission is also more common among syphilis patients. If the mother suffers from syphilis for a long time, she will infect the disease to her children during pregnancy or childbirth. What are the symptoms of syphilis in children? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

What symptom does child syphilis have?

Children in syphilis infection is usually about half a month before the onset of the disease, after the onset of the child will appear systemic lymphadenopathy, swollen lymph nodes texture will be relatively hard, and no adhesion, no pain. Generally speaking, children infected by their mothers usually have syphilitic rhinitis. Children infected with syphilis after about two months will appear lesions, lesions to macular papules, blisters are more common.

In children infected with syphilis, there are also a considerable number of osteochondritis, periostitis and other complications, the vast majority of patients have splenomegaly. The examination may discover the child's thrombocytopenia, the child often has the anemia situation to exist. And adult onset symptoms are different, children infected with syphilis usually do not appear hard chancre.

If the child is late congenital syphilis, usually after the age of two years, the child may appear keratitis, hepatosplenomegaly, joint water and other complications, because this type of syphilis in the human body latent time will be longer, so it is easy to cause irreversible damage to the human body, serious can also lead to patients suffering from permanent neurological deafness and other diseases.

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If the child has been infected, parents should take the child to the regular hospital for treatment at the first time, and must not delay, otherwise once the virus in the child's body breaks out, it will even cause permanent damage.