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Introduction

Syphilis is acute and chronic disease. It is caused by spirochete treponema pallidum bacteria, and it develops in several forms primary form, secondary form, latent form, and tertiary form. It is transmissible disease by either sexual contact or using contaminated instrument such as needles. It affects nearly every where of the victim’s organs from genital that most susceptible, neural system, to cardiovascular system.

Causes and spread:

Syphilis is caused by spirochete treponema pallidum bacteria, and it is transmissible that can be passed through direct personal contact or sharing contaminated tools. Therefore the following is the most common way to transfer syphilis from person to the next.

• Sexual contact
•  Kissing
•  Cuts or abrasion in the skin or mucus membrane
•  Mother to her unborn child
•  Sharing lip sticks, needles, etc
•  Blood transfusion

Diagnosis:

Syphilis is an ambiguous disease, for its many phases which makes it to imitate to other diseases. Thus, diagnosing it depends on the stage of the syphilis. However the following techniques are what a professional health care used so far to diagnose it. Scraping samples of sores from the cells of the patient to analyze under microscope

•  Blood test to check either presence of antibodies or infection depends on the stage.
•  Collecting samples of cerebrospinal fluid for neurosyphilis

Symptoms:

The sings of syphilis is actually depends on what type of syphilis are developed. Primary syphilis is when the skin of the patient shows a chancre, single sore in the period of about several weeks after infection happened. Enlargement of lymph nodes in genital and groin area would be possible, in most cases primary syphilis will disappear without treatment, but sometimes it progress into secondary syphilis. In secondary stage, the skin of the patient shows rashes, redness, and mucus membrane in places like hands, feet, palms, and soles. These symptoms can go away with or without treatment or stays for as late as year. Thus, latent, hidden symptoms, will take reverse when

secondary signs disappear without treatment because infection still retain within the person’s body. Without treatment, the syphilis would progress into tertiary stage mostly likely. In tertiary stage, syphilis can spread rapidly into all organs of the body and especially internal organs such as brain to from neurosyphilis and heart to form

cardiosyphilis which could lead to death. Thus, the following signs are known for syphilis:

•  Chancre or single sores on the skin
•  Enlargement of lymph nodes in genital and groin areas
•  Rashes, redness and discolored in the skin, especially hands, palms, feet, and soles
•  Fatigue, soreness, and aching Cardiovascular, and neurological conditions

Prevention:

Prevention is always number one solution to overcome diseases as proverb says prevention is better than cure.

Preventing syphilis is even more grantee than any other disease, since it is a transmissible disease. Thus the following is a guideline to protect one’s self from getting syphilis:

•  Avoid/abstain from sex, other than a health faithful wife or husband
•  Avoid sharing anything like lip sticks, needles, kissing, or shavers
•  Avoid using any contaminated tools or unclean materials, when cleaning cuts or scars in skin

Treatment:

To have a proper treatment for syphilis depends on understanding and knowing the right stage of the disease. Oral or intramuscular injection of penicillin will be the best medicine to take if the patient is not allergic to it, however if the victim is allergic to penicillin than other antibiotics will be used. Therefore the following drugs are what prescribed so far by health care professionals.

•  Penicillin, what type of penicillin depends on your infection therefore refer to your physician
•  Other antibiotics if allergic to penicillin

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