Can infantile syphilis have no symptom?

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Syphilis in children is a chronic, systemic sexually transmitted disease (VD, STD) caused by Treponema pallidum. The vast majority of syphilis is transmitted through sexual channels, which can be clinically manifested as primary syphilis, secondary syphilis, tertiary syphilis and latent syphilis. Female syphilis initial symptoms are often hard chancre appear after a few days, one side of the inguinal lymph node enlargement, after the other side is also swollen. Let's talk about the symptoms of syphilis in children.

Can infantile syphilis have no symptom?

In the early stage of syphilis, it is often hard chancre. A few days after the appearance of chancre, the inguinal lymph nodes on one side are enlarged, and then the other side is also enlarged. The characteristics of these lymph nodes are as follows: the size of fingers, hard, scattered and not fused with each other; No pain or tenderness; There was no inflammation such as redness, swelling and heat on the surface of skin; No suppuration; The puncture fluid contained spirochete.

In the early stage of chancre, the serological reaction of syphilis in most patients was positive, and then the positive rate increased gradually. After 7 to 8 weeks of chancre, the serological reaction of all patients was positive.

If chancre is not treated in time, it will disappear naturally after 3 to 4 weeks. But the disease is not cured, in the second stage of syphilis latent stage, if this period can get timely diagnosis and adequate treatment, can quickly achieve the purpose of complete cure, generally good condition.

matters needing attention

In daily life, we should keep clean, avoid non marital sex, multiple sexual partners and "one night stand"; The correct use of condoms with reliable quality is also an effective protective measure. Rapid syphilis screening in high-risk groups of sexually transmitted diseases (such as female sex workers, STD clinic population and gay men) is conducive to early detection and treatment of syphilis, and can reduce the transmission in sexual promiscuous population.