Kinds Of Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Sexually transmitted diseases are those that are transmitted through any sort of sexual contact. This includes homosexual and heterosexual contact and does not essentially involve penetration. This category of diseases, called STDs in short, includes any infection multiply by having sex. STDs comprise of gonorrhea, syphilis, HIV (the AIDS virus), chlamydia, trichomoniasis, herpes, pubic lice, and genital warts. Many sexually transmitted diseases can be cured with the help of treatment. If not treated, nevertheless, some of these diseases can cause infertility. Others ultimately can be fatal. We cannot tell by looking whether someone has an STD, and many people do not know that they are infected.

STDs can easily spread through any person-to-person transfer of bodily fluids such as semen, vaginal secretions, or blood. When someone has a sexually transmitted disease, anyone who has sex with that person stands a good chance of fetching the infection. Thus, having sex with multiple partners carries a superior risk of disease than staying faithful to a spouse or long-term partner. Even a monogamous relationship isn't inevitably risk-free, however, since one partner could be carrying an infection picked up during a prior sexual encounter.

Many sexually transmitted diseases are highly infectious. For example, if a man has gonorrhea, a woman who has sex with him even once stands an 80 to 90 percent possibility of getting infected. If the man has gonorrhea plus chlamydia, as commonly happens, the woman could be infected with both diseases at the same time. Vaginal intercourse is the most common route to STD infection. However, other vital routes include anal sex, oral sex, sexual abuse of children, and mother-to-baby infection during childbirth.

Sexually transmitted disease weakens the immune system, so a person infected with one STD has a greater risk of acquiring other infections. Regrettably, recuperating from an STD does not make a person protected. Anyone who has had a particular STD is still at risk of getting it for a second time. Men are more likely to show obvious symptoms of STDs. Symptoms in women may not be as clear, and the problem could be misdiagnosed, many women infected with certain types of STDs have no early symptoms at all and may unknowingly infect sexual partner(s).

In the past, gay men have shown to have an above-average rate of infection with STDs. This is largely credited to promiscuity and may have declined in retort to the AIDS epidemic. Furthermore, some men are secretly bisexual. If a man picks up an STD from a homosexual encounter, he may then pass the infection on to innocent heterosexual partners. Lesbians have a lower-than-average risk for STDs, since most sexually acquired diseases are not easily spread from woman to woman

Over a lifetime, the body can host many different kinds of microorganisms including those that cause sexually transmitted diseases. There are three kinds of STDs bacterial, viral, and bugs. Bacterial STDs are transitory which means they will respond to medication and can be removed out of our system. However, if they remain untreated they can cause very serious damage. Bacterial STDs include gonorrhea, bacteria which can cause infertility, heart disease, blindness, damage to the urinary tract, arthritis, and damage to an unborn child.

Viral STDs are everlasting. Once anyone acquires it, it stays in our system forever. Some can result in cervical cancer. Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) lives in nerves at the base of the spine and leads to painful blisters, mostly on the vulva and in the mouth. Sexually transmitted skin infections are caused by tiny bugs called arthropods. Using pesticides will easily help us get rid of them.

• Felicia Byrnes
• 01/04/2009, 10:59 PM
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