Early symptoms of syphilis

Update Date: 2024-06-05 Source: Network

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For most people, this problem is undoubtedly profound, many times can not be accurately said, even patients infected with syphilis sometimes can not know. Syphilis patients in fact, the heart uneasy, sometimes not the time to check, did not check out caused great harm. Let's share the early symptoms of syphilis.

Early symptoms of syphilis

First: first stage syphilis symptom: after infection 2-4 weeks appears the hard chancre, mostly occurs in the genital part, the male in the coronal groove, the penis, the foreskin and so on. Women in the size of the labia or cervix. At the beginning, it is a papule, which quickly breaks into a small red ulcer, with a small amount of serous secretions, containing a large number of Treponema pallidum. The hard chancre is often single, with cartilaginous hardness and no pain.

Second: secondary syphilis symptoms: secondary syphilis generally occurs in 7 ~ 10 weeks after infection or 6 ~ 8 weeks after chancre, a few cases. Secondary lesions may overlap with chancre. Treponema pallidum spreads throughout the body through blood, mainly with skin and mucous membrane damage, as well as bone, sensory organs and nerve damage. Infectious, rash before often low fever, headache, muscle, joint and bone soreness and other precursor symptoms.

Third: the third stage of syphilis symptoms: due to Treponema pallidum from lymph nodes into the blood, spread in the body after systemic symptoms, in 7-10 weeks after infection, there can be low fever, headache, muscle and joint pain, systemic lymphadenopathy. Skin rash appeared all over the body, such as macula, papule, pustule, oyster shell rash, copper red, a small amount of scales attached. It is often symmetrically distributed, dense and not fused.

matters needing attention

After the treatment of early syphilis, the patients should be followed up regularly for 2-3 years, every 3 months in the first year, every 6 months in the second year, and at the end of the third year. If everything is normal, the observation can be stopped.