Describe the progression of untreated gonorrhea and untreated
syphilis. Do treatments produce a cure for each disease?
Step 1
Sexually transmitted diseases are reproductive tract infections which are transmitted from one human being to another through sexual intimacy. For example- Gonorrhoea, syphilis, genital herpes, genital warts, hepatitis B.
Gonorrhoea is caused by diplococcus bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoea. Syphilis is caused by spirochaete Treponema pallidum.
Step 2
Gonorrhoea is the bacterium that passes into genital tubes, forms pus containing discharge, pain over genitalia during urination. It may also cause arthritis and eye infection. Eyes of babies born to infected mothers may be damaged. If left untreated gonorrhoea can lead to infertility in females. It can spread across the uterus and fallopian tubes and causes pelvic inflammatory disease. Pelvic inflammatory disease can result in damage of tubes and abdominal pain as well as fever leading to infertility and pregnancy complications.
Syphilis is an indurated, infectious but painless primary ulcer that develops on the genitals. Lymph nodes swell up. Soon the primary ulcer heals up. Skin lesions, rashes, swollen joints and flu-like illness occurs in the secondary stage. In the tertiary stage, ulcer develops on the nose, lower legs and palate. Damage to internal organ also takes place. If syphilis is left untreated it can damage almost any part of the body that includes the heart, brain, spinal cord, eyes, and bones. It can also result in mental illness, blindness, deafness, heart failure, neurological problems, and death. Untreated syphilis leads to developmental delayed babies and stillborn.
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