How to prevent syphilis from infecting others?

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I believe that many people are not unfamiliar with syphilis, as long as we find out the cause of syphilis, then often treatment is not very difficult. We don't know how many people are being persecuted by syphilis every year. According to who's estimation, there are about 12 million new cases in the world every year. Only when we understand the transmission route of syphilis can we better protect ourselves and others. Now let's share about how to prevent primary syphilis from infecting others? The knowledge of.

How to prevent syphilis from infecting others?

First: the course of blood borne syphilis is long, Treponema pallidum can be latent in the blood of patients for a period of time. Especially in patients with latent syphilis, although the body is infected with pathogens, but can not have clinical manifestations, healthy people or other patients with various diseases input blood or blood products provided by them, can make the recipient infected with syphilis.

Second: indirect contact transmission, contact with syphilis patients used things, such as the patient's clothes, bedding, articles, supplies, appliances, toilet, bath towel, etc., may be contaminated by the patient's secretions and infected with Treponema pallidum. Even healthy people who live closely with syphilis patients are easy to be infected with syphilis when they come into contact with these articles contaminated with pathogenic bacteria.

Third: placental transmission. If pregnant women are infected with syphilis, they can transmit syphilis through the placenta during pregnancy. Director Shao of Changchun Ping'an urology department introduced that pregnant women with syphilis, without timely detection and treatment, or incomplete treatment, Treponema pallidum can be transmitted to the fetus through the blood circulation of the placenta, making the fetus infected with syphilis. Placental infection mainly occurs in pregnant women with early syphilis.

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Early acquired syphilis patients are the source of infection, 95% of them are infected through unclean husband and wife life, and a few are infected through kissing, shaking hands, blood transfusion, touching contaminated underwear, wet towel, tea cup, pipe, breast-feeding, diaper and so on. So do a good job of personal hygiene, do self-cleaning is the main way to prevent syphilis.