What does syphilis look like at the beginning?

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There are many kinds of sexually transmitted diseases, most people are familiar with, including gonorrhea, syphilis, genital herpes, condyloma acuminatum and so on. These sexually transmitted diseases not only affect the sexual function and health of patients, but also have a certain infectious. If patients have unprotected sexual intercourse with healthy people, it is easy to cause the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Many people's sexually transmitted diseases, such as syphilis, are so infected. So, for syphilis, what does the disease look like at the beginning? Now let's talk about it.

What does syphilis look like at the beginning?

Syphilis is a high incidence rate of STD. It is slow onset and long course. And the longer the disease is dragged, the greater the body damage to the patient. It is a disease that needs regular treatment in time.

Syphilis symptoms at the beginning of the performance is not very obvious, mainly including chancre and lymphadenopathy and so on. In patients, syphilis will appear at the beginning of hard chancre, that is, single, painless and itchless, round or oval, well-defined ulcer, this ulcer will generally be higher than the skin, the ulcer surface is clean. If the patient does not pay attention to this symptom, then the chancre will disappear automatically after a period of time, causing a "self-healing" illusion to the patient.

In addition to chancre, due to the invasion of Treponema pallidum, the human body should make the corresponding fight back. Therefore, the lymph nodes near the patient's genitalia will swell. These enlarged lymph nodes usually occur 1-2 weeks after the appearance of chancre. In addition, some patients may have inguinal or proximal lymph node enlargement. Generally speaking, these enlarged lymph nodes are different in size, hard in quality, non adhesion, non ulceration and painless, which should be paid attention to.

matters needing attention

Syphilis as a chronic infectious disease, its harm is relatively large, especially in patients with late syphilis, its major systems may be attacked by Treponema pallidum, resulting in a variety of serious symptoms, should be treated in time.