Symptoms of syphilis

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Now I have a definite diagnosis of syphilis, that is, I just found that I had a lot of red spots on my body, so I went to the hospital for examination, and I was diagnosed as syphilis by blood test. Today, let me learn the symptoms of syphilis with you.

Symptoms of syphilis

Symptom 1: the symptoms of syphilis at each stage are different. At the initial stage of syphilis, the symptoms are not obvious, but the patients feel very uncomfortable. The symptoms of primary syphilis are hard chancre. That is to say, erythema, infiltration, nodule and quick damage occur in vulva, forming painless and itchless ulcer. The base and periphery are relatively hard, accompanied by swelling of inguinal lymph nodes. Most of the patients occurred in glans and coronal sulcus.

Symptom 2: secondary syphilis is characterized by pleomorphic rash, which is often symmetrically distributed on the skin of the trunk and the flexed side of the extremities. Red or purplish red macular rash is smooth or with scales. It is not itchy or painful. The lymph nodes of the whole body are often slightly enlarged, but there is no tenderness. Some patients have flat wet eczema with moist surface around the external genitalia or anus.

Symptom 3: skin and mucous membrane damage in patients with stage III syphilis, typical lesions are nodular syphilid and gumma. The nervous system, heart blood system, liver, spleen and bone can all have pathological changes, which seriously affect the function of various organs, resulting in disability and even loss of life.

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The early symptoms of male syphilis are round, oval induration or rash with the size of rice grains on the inner surface of prepuce or coronal groove, frenulum of prepuce and penis, namely chancre. Most of them are single, hard around, with rapid erosion and ulcer on the surface, but without pus or discomfort. If not cured in time, there may be more serious secondary syphilis, weight loss, systemic discomfort, chronic diarrhea, systemic lymphadenopathy, oral mucosal ulcer after one month. And can lead to opportunistic pulmonary infection or multiple bleeding, tumor and other serious diseases.