Some Kinds of Treatment for Syphilis

As the one of the STD with staging symptoms, Syphilis is recommended to be cure in early stages. It is because the infection which caused by bacterium is not too bad at that stage. It will make the cure is not too heavy. The risk of growing infection can be prevented. To cure totally the infection can be done with some kinds of treatment which mostly related to the medication.

In the early stage, the consideration of the treatment for Syphilis uses penicillin. However, not all people are able to take penicillin for curing. They can use other kinds of penicillin which is suitable with the body and condition. Then, pregnant women also cannot take it. Therefore, the use of penicillin cannot become the standard. Taking penicillin is also part of the next step of the treatment. It is called antibiotic therapy. This phase is done before the syphilis bacterium infects more. The use of penicillin is divided into three parts. The alternative in using penicillin therapy is done for the people who have allergic with penicillin. Sufferers of Syphilis can use Tetracycline, erythromycin, and ceftriaxone. It is done to create additional problem in the body. The second antibiotic theraphy is Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction. This kind of therapy is done to cure certain kind of symptom like headache, fever, and even the syphilis lesion. The other therapy is procaine toxicity. However, the effect is not too good even though it is a mild one. The patients may have hallucination after taking the therapy.

Other treatment is surgery. It cannot be done in the early stage. In all of medical cases, surgery is done for the last effort. In the Syphilis treatment, it is done in the third stage of the Syphilis symptoms. Then, it will be done when sufferers have complication. One of the examples is that when the patients need to replace the aortic valve.

Preventing of Syphilis is other kind of treatment. This purpose of the treatment is to prevent the Syphilis limit bacterium to spread. In this phase, mostly suffers are suggested to have safe sex. Then, sharing needles is not allowed. This treatment can be done before or after the Syphilis is infected a person. It can be part of the health education.

People who have rare case of Syphilis can do consultation. It is done to make them have proper treatment. The consultation should not be done only with one physician. They who suffer should consult with dermatologist, vascular surgeon, ophthalmologist, or neurologist. Then, sufferers will know the exact condition of the infection and the body also.

The last treatment which recommended is long term monitoring. It is done for the patients who already have bad infection of the Syphilis and also as the follow up. Every stage of the symptoms will require different kind of the treatment. People who suffer the first and the second stage is needed to get VDRL testing at 3, 6, and 12 months after treatment after the treatment. Sufferers with latent symptoms will need two years monitoring. Then, they who suffer the benign tertiary or cardiovascular syphilis will need to take the monitoring for the rest of the life. Neurosyphilis will need six months in monitoring. The last, the pregnant women with syphilis will need the monitoring only in pregnancy duration.