How does syphilis cause symptoms

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I recently found that my body was abnormal. After a hospital examination, I found that I had syphilis. My daily life is very irregular, for patients with this disease should be treated as soon as possible, now I will tell you about the symptoms caused by syphilis.

How does syphilis cause symptoms

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.

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Usually, the systemic symptoms like influenza may appear first, followed by swelling of lymph nodes and various damages of skin and mucous membrane. The symptoms of male syphilis are skin lesions with macular rash, macular papule and purulent herpes; mucosal lesions with syphilitic pharyngitis, mucosal plaque, syphilitic alopecia and other symptoms; some patients will have hoarseness, or even completely unable to pronounce. 90% of patients will have syphilis, which is the basic feature of secondary syphilis. When suffering from syphilis, because there is no obvious pain, it is often ignored by patients. Clinically, if you see a rash that is widely distributed, symmetrical, and with mild symptoms, you should ask for a detailed history to avoid missed diagnosis. This is one of the symptoms of male syphilis.