Signs of STD

common types of stds :: Article Creator Oral STDs: What Are The Symptoms? Oral STDs can present with a range of different symptoms, including unusual discharge, foul odor, and soreness. Many people don't realize it, but you can contract a sexually transmitted infection (STI) without having vaginal or anal sex. Any skin-to-skin contact with the genitals is enough to contract an STI — or pass one to your partner. In other words, oral sex using the mouth, lips, or tongue can pose similar risks as other sexual activities. But as with other sexual activities, you can lower the risk of transmission by using a condom or other barrier method for every sexual encounter. Read on to learn which STIs can be contracted or transmitted through oral sex, symptoms to pay attention to, and how to get tested. Oral sex describes any sexual act where the mouth, lips, or tongue makes contact with the genital areas or anus. This includes: S...

hiv symptoms in women reddit :: Article Creator What I Wish I Knew About HIV Symptoms When I was diagnosed with AIDS in 1999, I had no knowledge of HIV/AIDS. My doctor told me that with my T-cell count so low and viral load so high, I had probably contracted the virus at least eight to 10 years earlier. This meant the virus had entered my body between 1989 and 1992. The majority of the time between when I contracted the virus and when I was diagnosed, I did not have any symptoms—or so I thought. The first sign of HIV can be flu-like symptoms. Once those flu-like symptoms go away, the virus remains in you and continues to slowly multiply. During this time, you may have no symptoms at all. Or, as the immune system weakens, you may experience symptoms. I had to look back through the years before my diagnosis to think of any health concerns I had had that might have actually been symptoms of HIV. Turns out I did have symptoms of HIV—I just didn...

chlamydia sores :: Article Creator Oral STDs: What Are The Symptoms? Oral STDs can present with a range of different symptoms, including unusual discharge, foul odor, and soreness. Many people don't realize it, but you can contract a sexually transmitted infection (STI) without having vaginal or anal sex. Any skin-to-skin contact with the genitals is enough to contract an STI — or pass one to your partner. In other words, oral sex using the mouth, lips, or tongue can pose similar risks as other sexual activities. But as with other sexual activities, you can lower the risk of transmission by using a condom or other barrier method for every sexual encounter. Read on to learn which STIs can be contracted or transmitted through oral sex, symptoms to pay attention to, and how to get tested. Oral sex describes any sexual act where the mouth, lips, or tongue makes contact with the genital areas or anus. This includes: ST...

amoxicillin and gonorrhea :: Article Creator Gonorrhea Increasingly Resistant To Antibiotics ATLANTA, Georgia (Reuters) -- Gonorrhea, the nation's No. 2 sexually transmitted disease, is showing increased resistance to the antibiotics commonly used to treat it, federal health officials said on Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the drug-resistant strains are making it more difficult to successfully treat gonorrhea. More than 360,000 cases of the disease were reported last year. "We're very concerned," said Dr. Chris Iverson, a CDC epidemiologist. "We lost in the 1980s the ability to treat gonorrhea with penicillin and tetracycline. We now are seeing development of resistance to two newer antibiotics, limiting our options," he added. A CDC-sponsored surveillance system has detected the first known cases of gonorrhea resistant to azithromycin, a commonly used antibiotic. A dozen ca...