Grisly Gonorrhea

GRISLY GONORRHEA

There are many different types of sexually transmitted diseases spread throughout the world. Common STD among the people is Herpes, Gonorrhea, Syphilis, etc. These diseases can be very deadly.

            Gonorrhea is one of them. Gonorrhea is a bacterial infection that is caused by a bacterium called Neisseria Gonorhoeae. This bacterium is a species of Diplococcic Bacteria. It is a bacterium that likes to attack warm and moist places like the cervix, vagina, urethra and fallopian tubes. It can occur to both men and women. In men it occurs in the urethra. This disease is also transmitted to the mouth, throat, eyes and anus by oral, anal or vaginal sex. If a pregnant woman has gonorrhea, she may pass it to her child.

            In the beginning, men may experience urethritis – a burning sensation while urinating, white, yellow, or green discharge or sometimes men may get painful or swollen testicles. Symptoms for women includes increased vaginal discharge, vaginal bleeding between periods, and a burning sensation while urinating. The incubation period after a person gets affected is 2 to 30 days but in most of the cases is shows up in 2 to 6 days. In some very rare cases a person may have gonorrhea but it may never show up. The untreated gonorrhea can get worse. Untreated gonorrhea in both men and women may lead to PID (Pelvic Inflammatory Disease). It is a disease in which a person’s reproductive system gets infected and may result in infertility. PID can also cause puss filled “pockets” that are hard to cure. Gonorrhea can also cause Epididymitis and joint pain throughout the body. The effect of gonorrhea on infants can be very deadly. A mother can transmit gonorrhea to her baby as the baby passes through the cervix or vagina, which is a common site of infection; this can lead to blindness, joint infection or life threatening blood infection.

            Gonorrhea can be treated by antibiotics. Gonorrhea in infants can be prevented by “silver nitrate” which kills bacteria in the eye. In the adults it can be treated by you need to take full dose of this medicine, even though symptoms disappear.

            The only of preventing from this disease or any other STD is to be abstinent. You should also go to the doctor and do STD checkups to make sure that you and your partner don’t have any diseases. But if you decide to have sex, then you can greatly lower your risk by using condoms. 

           

           

              

RAJ MEHTA 

http://www.cdc.com.gov/std/Gonorrhea/STDFact-gonorrhea.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonorrhea

The Great Imitator

                          Syphilis isn’t a very noticeable STI. It is known as the great imitator because it makes you think that it’s another STI. Syphilis is caused by the bacterium Treponema Pallidum. There are many symptoms of syphilis in its three stages. The primary stage usually begins with a small, painless sore called a chancre. It heals on its own and most people ignore it. But that’s why it’s called the great imitator. This is when the bacteria moves into the secondary stage.

The secondary stage is when syphilis is not treated in the primary stage. It is marked by skin rash and lesions around the affected area. Reddish-brown spots on the palms and feet are common. Sometimes the rashes are not very noticeable. Without treatment, the bacteria will move into the latent stage.

The latent stage is the most deadly. Why you ask? Because there are almost no symptoms until you are about to die. Syphilis can destroy your internal organs, cause dementia and paralysis, and gradual blindness. This damage is enough to kill you.

The incubation period is from 10-90 days before the first symptoms appear. It takes anywhere from 10-20 years for the effects of the latent stage to set in. You really don’t want to have a child while diagnosed with syphilis either. There is an extremely high risk of your baby being a stillborn. And for all you idiots out there, it means your baby is born dead!

Treatment and prevention are simple. A shot of some old school penicillin will do. But if you’re allergic to it, there are antibiotics out now that are prescribed. The only two ways to prevent syphilis by sexual contact is to use condoms, or be abstinent. Not a lot of choices.

http://www.cdc.gov/std/syphilis/STDFact-Syphilis.htm

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Monday, December 19, 2011

                                                                     Gonorrhea

Cause: it is a bacterial disease Symptoms of gonorrhea are pain and burning while urinating, discharge, swelled testicles, Symptoms in women include. Painful intercourse, discharge, fever. Noticed up to 2-5 days after transferred. But it can be a month before it is noticed in a man. If you leave gonorrhea untreated it can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease, in men ducts attached to the testicles can cause infertility if untreated. Can be passed to child from mother in birth and can cause the baby to be blindness, joint infection, or blood infection. Gonorrhea can be fully treated with antibiotics, but it is becoming harder to treat so dual therapy is recommended. Sexual abstinence is the biggest way to prevent gonorrhea and getting your partner checked. Condoms greatly reduce the risk of getting this disease.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0004526/

http://www.cdc.gov/std/gonorrhea/stdfact-gonorrhea.htm

                        - Austin Trautner

Purple Polka Dot Virus (HIV)

                                                                                           (ewww)

HIV is a STI gross!  HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. It is caused by the transmission of blood, semen, vaginal secretions, and breast milk. HIV is the virus that leads to AIDS.   HIV is a virus that affects the body’s immune system. It destroys the white blood cells and actually makes the white blood cells imitate the bad cells.

          Most people who become infected with HIV don’t know it because they don’t feel sick. HIV is one STI that is asymptomatic which means you don’t show symptoms. Symptoms of HIV could be lack of energy, weight loss, frequent fevers and sweats, frequent yeast infections, skin rashes or flaky skin, short term memory loss, and mouth genital or anal sores from herpes. Some people don’t even know they are infected for six months. That is the incubation time. Also if you become infected and you get tested and the test comes up negative you should get tested again in six months just to be sure.

          People with HIV are prone to get various diseases because of the lack of antibodies in the body. If HIV is left untreated the infected person could develop cancers, Such as cervical cancer and lymphomas. Lymphoma causes the purple, round spots on the skin or mouth.

          There are a lot of different medicines that have to be taken to live with HIV. Most of them are antiviral medicines but some of them are inhibitors. They consume various combinations of pills which have to be taken at the same time every day.

          Nobody wants to live with HIV. The only 100% sure way to prevent this from happening is abstinence. Also if you insist on having sex anyway you can use condoms. They also help with preventing sexually transmitted infections. Just DONT HAVE SEX!!!

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http://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/

http://www.epzicom.com/hiv/hiv-facts.html?bing=b_&rotation=1211&banner=5295&kw=365

http://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/default.htm

   

                                                                                                      -By Paris Terry

groddy bumpy HPV

                  H.P.V (Human Papillomavirus)

     It is caused and spread by skin to skin contact. There are about 40 types of genital HPV. Some types can cause cervical cancer in women and can also cause other kinds of cancer in both men and women. Other types can cause genital warts in both men and women. The HPV vaccine works by preventing the most common types of HPV that cause cervical cancer and genital warts. It is given in three different shots.

          Most HPV infections have no symptoms and are hard to identify. Warts are caused by low-risk strains of the virus and can be flesh-colored and hidden inside the cervix, vagina or anus. They can be small or large, alone or in clusters, flat or round. They can spread along the groin or thigh or be found in the mouth. High- risk cancer-causing strains of HPV cause no symptoms and are detected by an abnormal Pap test or the HPV test.

          HPV infection is a direct cause of cervical cancer. Cervical cancer was once one of the most common causes of cancer death for American women, but is now one of the most preventable, with fatality rates dropping because of early detection and treatment.

If you are pregnant and have HPV then it is most likely to be passed down to the baby at birth if you give birth through the birth canal. If u do a c section then your baby has a really good chance that it won’t get it, but there are some cases when a baby gets HPV from their mother at birth even through a c section.

          HPV is not curable but you can take a shot to prevent it.

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BY: DANI KUTTLER

LGV aka "The Skinning Disease"

So I was sitting is Personal Wellness today and suddenly became extremely paranoid. Holy crap! What happens if I have an STD? I actually decided to become more edumacated and research an STD. I did learn about one particularly nasty STD called LGV.

This particularly nasty STD is transmitted bacterially. Which means you can get it by direct contact with any place that has the bacteria, such as lesions and/or ulcers. So if you choose to be sexually active, use a condom. It is the #1 protector from STD’s besides abstinence. The symptoms of LGV can be mistaken for a rectal infection. The symptoms of LGV are rectal ulcers, bleeding, and discharge. LGV’s symptoms can commonly be mistaken for syphilis and herpes. A very scary thought is that it might take up to 30 days for LGV to show. Once it does show, or even if it doesn’t, you should probably go get checked up at a health clinic. If LGV doesn’t get treated it can cause severe cases of hepatitis, arthritis, pneumonitis, perihepititis and possibly death. Lucky for pregnant woman, the baby will not be affected by the STD because doctors have developed a medicine called Azithromycin to treat it without damaging the fetus. If you are not pregnant, you can take an antibiotic called Doxycycline twice a day for 21 days.

Here's some "great" pictures.

http://www.cdc.gov/std/lgv/STDFact-LGV.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymphogranuloma_venereum

Barry Chang

LGV On The Job

The hard working LGV is caused from three strands of the bacterium, Chlamydia trachomatis. You can get LGV from person to person through direct contact with lesions, ulcers, or any other area where bacteria is located. Movement of the organisms happens during sexual penetration or skin to skin contact. This dangerous STD can be very hard to diagnose. But, the first sign is typically a small genital or rectal lesion with an incubation of about 3-30 days.  Other signs include, tender lymph nodes in groin area or rectal bleeding and drainage from the rectum. During incubation, 3-30 days, you then realize if you have it or not. The symptoms will start to develop. If you don’t realize that you have LGV or you decide not to take care of it, it can lead to lymph nodes swelling in groin area and rapture causing permanent scarring. Also you can have pain around anus, drainage in rectum, and rectal bleeding that can lead to rectal scarring. Although very risky, LGV has no vaccine to prevent it but it does have an antibiotic. All doctors recommend that you take doxycycline, twice a day for 21 days. If you are unable to take doxycycline you can take erythromycin base or azithromycin. If you are pregnant you should avoid taking doxycycline. Now that you see all of the stuff that this small vicious STD can do to you, you can still avoid it. First off, you can be sexually abstinent. Also, you can use a female or male condom, limit the number of sex partners, or carefully wash genitals after sex.

Mariah Mahaffey

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