Symptoms of syphilis in men

Update Date: 2023-02-11 Source: Network

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Syphilis is a serious venereal disease, and Treponema pallidum infection is the main way to cause the disease. Syphilis can be divided into stages I, II and III, of which stage III is the most serious. Syphilis course is relatively long, in the early stage is very easy to invade male genitalia, after the development of the disease can invade the whole body skin, in the late stage of syphilis patients with internal organs will be infringed. Syphilis is not only transmitted through sexual behavior, but also through mother to child transmission, blood transmission and indirect transmission. Syphilis is very harmful and must be paid great attention to.

Symptoms of syphilis in men

The latent period of syphilis is between 9 and 90 days. After the infection of Treponema pallidum, the male patients can be diagnosed by serum examination in the hospital. Syphilis latent period of general symptoms is not obvious, infected with the virus about three weeks after the genital site began to appear symptoms, will form a hard texture and painless nodules.

Further development of the disease, male syphilis affected skin becomes red and moist, but also gradually broken, and the formation of erosion, which is the so-called one-stage syphilis chancre. Syphilis early stage often only in genital parts of the disease, these hard chancre will exist in the foreskin, glans, coronal groove and other male genital parts.

If everything is not treated in time, the syphilis will spread with the blood circulation and lymph circulation of the whole body. After a few weeks, it will slowly form stage 2 syphilis. Stage 2 syphilis can lead to body fever, headache, dizziness, muscle soreness and other symptoms, and form syphilis sores in the trunk, palm, foot and other places of patients.

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Once syphilis develops to stage 3, all kinds of symptoms become more obvious. It takes 2 to 3 years to develop from Treponema pallidum infection to stage 3 syphilis. Stage 3 syphilis patients not only have systemic syphilis sores, but also their bones, viscera and systemic mucosa are infected, and their bones can form gumma.