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Guide to Common STIs: Symptoms & Treatments

The document outlines key information about three sexually transmitted infections: syphilis, chlamydia, and gonorrhea. Syphilis is caused by Treponema pallidum and is treatable with penicillin, while chlamydia, caused by chlamydia trachomatis, is effectively treated with antibiotics like azithromycin or doxycycline. Gonorrhea, also treatable with antibiotics, requires a combination of ceftriaxone and azithromycin due to drug-resistant strains.

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Guide to Common STIs: Symptoms & Treatments

The document outlines key information about three sexually transmitted infections: syphilis, chlamydia, and gonorrhea. Syphilis is caused by Treponema pallidum and is treatable with penicillin, while chlamydia, caused by chlamydia trachomatis, is effectively treated with antibiotics like azithromycin or doxycycline. Gonorrhea, also treatable with antibiotics, requires a combination of ceftriaxone and azithromycin due to drug-resistant strains.

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Sexually Transmitted

Infections
May 19, 2021

1: Syphilis; Causes: The cause of syphilis is a bacterium called Treponema pallidum. The most
common route of transmission is through contact with an infected person's sore during sexual
activity. The bacteria enter your body through minor cuts or abrasions in your skin or mucous
membranes.

Symptoms:There are lots of symptoms, including mild fever, fatigue, sore throat, hair loss,
weight loss, swollen glands, headache, and muscle pains.

Treatment: Primary and secondary syphilis are easy to treat with a penicillin injection. Penicillin
is one of the most widely used antibiotics and is usually effective in treating syphilis. People
who are allergic to penicillin will likely be treated with a different antibiotic, such as:

doxycycline

azithromycin

ceftriaxone

Cure:There are no home remedies or over-the-counter drugs that will cure syphilis, but syphilis is
easy to cure in its early stages.

2. Chlamydia : Causes: caused by a bacteria called chlamydia trachomatis.

Symptoms: Painful urination.

Vaginal discharge in women.


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Discharge from the penis in men.

Painful sexual intercourse in women.

Bleeding between periods and after sex in women.

Testicular pain in men.

Treatment:if you are diagnosed with chlamydia, your doctor will prescribe oral antibiotics. A
single dose of azithromycin or taking doxycycline twice daily for 7 to 14 days are the most
common treatments and are the same for those with or without HIV. With treatment, the
infection should clear up in about a week.

Cure: Chlamydia can usually be effectively treated with antibiotics. More than 95% of people will
be cured if they take their antibiotics correctly. You may be started on antibiotics once test
results have confirmed you have chlamydia.

3: Gonorrhea Cause: caused by a sexually transmitted bacterium that infects both males and
females. Gonorrhea most often affects the urethra, rectum or throat.

Symptoms: Painful urination

Vaginal discharge in women

Discharge from the penis in men

Painful sexual intercourse in women

Bleeding between periods and after sex in women

Testicular pain in men

Chlamydia trachomatis can also infect the rectum, either with no signs or symptoms or with
rectal pain, discharge or bleeding. You also can get chlamydial eye infections (conjunctivitis)
through contact with infected body fluids.

Treatment:Adults with gonorrhea are treated with antibiotics. Due to emerging strains of drug-
resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends
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that uncomplicated gonorrhea be treated with the antibiotic ceftriaxone — given as an
injection — with oral azithromycin (Zithromax).

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