This document provides information about several common sexually transmitted infections including Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Syphilis, Genital Herpes, and Trichomoniasis. It outlines the causes, symptoms, and treatments for each disease. The key to prevention is seeking medical care if symptoms appear and practicing safe sex through contraceptive use or abstinence to avoid transmission.
This document provides information about several common sexually transmitted infections including Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Syphilis, Genital Herpes, and Trichomoniasis. It outlines the causes, symptoms, and treatments for each disease. The key to prevention is seeking medical care if symptoms appear and practicing safe sex through contraceptive use or abstinence to avoid transmission.
This document provides information about several common sexually transmitted infections including Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Syphilis, Genital Herpes, and Trichomoniasis. It outlines the causes, symptoms, and treatments for each disease. The key to prevention is seeking medical care if symptoms appear and practicing safe sex through contraceptive use or abstinence to avoid transmission.
This document provides information about several common sexually transmitted infections including Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Syphilis, Genital Herpes, and Trichomoniasis. It outlines the causes, symptoms, and treatments for each disease. The key to prevention is seeking medical care if symptoms appear and practicing safe sex through contraceptive use or abstinence to avoid transmission.
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SEXUAL TRANSMITTED DISEASES
DISEASES CAUSES AND SIGNS AND TREATMENT PREVENTION
SPREAD SYMPTOMS CHLAMYDIA Chlamydia Men may Physical Seek madical trachomatis experience examination in care or bacterium painful or which a health- contrascptives. burning care provider urination or a performs a discharge from pelvic the penis. examination Women may experience bleeding between periods, burning urination, vaginal discharge, or mild lower abdominal pain.
GONORRHEA Bacterium Symptoms may Gonorrhea is Physicians
Neisseria be similar to treatable with diagnose gonorrhoeae those of several gonorrhea by chlamydia and antibiotics, testing penile or include burning vaginal urination and discharge or penile or urine specimens vaginal for the presence discharge. of Neisseria gonorrhoeae. SYPHILIS Caused by the -Chancres Syphilis is Fidelity bacterium small, fluid- easily treated Treponema filled lesions with penicillin. pallidum. on genitalai, anus, fingers, lips, tongue, nipples tonsils,or eyelids that eventually erode and develop indu- rated raised edge and clear bases.
GENITAL Caused by Genital herpes Acyclovir(Zovirax)
HERPES infection with causes Treated with Has proven to be the herpes recurrent antiviral drugs, an effective simplex virus outbreaks of such as treatment for painful sores acyclovir, but genital herpes. on the genitals, HSV cannot be eradicated from the body —it is incurable. TRICHOMO- Trichomoniasis, caused Redness, Trichomoniasis The most NIASIS by infection with the swelling, is easily treated effective protozoan Trichomonas tenderness, with a single prevention vaginalis dyspareunia dose of method is dysuria, antibiotics. abstinence—that is, refraining from sex completely. No sexual contact means no risk of developing an STI.