What does syphilis rash look like

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After a dirty extramarital affair, round and oval induration with the size of rice grains appeared on the prepuce frenulum and penis. Most of them were single, with hard periphery and erosion and ulcer on the surface. I got syphilis. Patients with this disease should be treated as soon as possible. Now I will tell you about the syphilis rash.

What does syphilis rash look like

First: chancre is one of the hallmark symptoms of early syphilis. Chancre appears in penis, glans, coronal sulcus, prepuce, urethral orifice; labia, clitoris, cervix; anus, anal canal, etc. Can also be seen in the lips, tongue, breast, etc., hard chancre generally appears in 6-70 days after infection, hard chancre shape can be round or oval, often single, painless and itchless, sore surface is generally not broken, press up is hard, but once the occurrence of secondary infection, it may occur ulcer and damage.

Second, the damage often occurs in the vulva and sexual contact sites. In men, it is mostly near the glans, coronal groove and frenulum, the inner lobe of prepuce or penis, the root of penis, urethral orifice or urethra. The latter is easy to be misdiagnosed. Chancre is often complicated with prepuce edema. Lymphangitis can be seen in some patients on the back of penis, showing relatively hard linear damage. In women, chancre is more common in labia and clitoris, Urethral orifice, scrotum, especially in the cervix, easy to miss diagnosis, pudendal external hard chancre is more common in the lips, tongue, tonsils, fingers (medical staff can also be infected with finger chancre), breast, eyelids, ear.

Third: syphilis is a chronic, systemic sexually transmitted disease caused by Treponema pallidum. Early infectious, mainly invasion of skin and mucous membrane, often manifested as genital ulcer, lymphadenopathy and systemic rash, some patients may have no symptoms in the early stage; late destructive, almost can invade all organs of the body, often cause cardiovascular system and nervous system damage, even life-threatening. The disease is mainly transmitted through sexual contact, and a few are transmitted through blood transfusion and contaminated household appliances. The treatment of syphilis should follow the principle of early, regular, whole course treatment and regular follow-up.

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Congenital syphilis: this kind of syphilis refers to the mother suffering from syphilis after 4 months of pregnancy, from the maternal blood Treponema pallidum through the placenta, into the body of the fetus, that is, in the fetal period suffering from syphilis, after birth called neonatal congenital syphilis. The cause of syphilis is the transmission of Treponema pallidum through the placenta, which usually occurs after 4 months of pregnancy. Fetal infection is related to the course of syphilis of the mother and the treatment of syphilis during pregnancy. When syphilis is not treated in the early stage of pregnancy, whether it is primary or secondary infection, almost all of the fetuses will be affected, and 50% of the fetuses will have abortion, premature delivery, stillbirth or death in the neonatal period. The survivors had clinical symptoms at different ages after birth, and the patients under 2 years old had early syphilis, which was mainly the direct result of infection and inflammation. After 2 years old, it was late syphilis, mainly deformity or chronic damage left by early infection.