The Treatment Options for Syphilis

Syphilis is a STD that affects many people each year. The symptoms of syphilis are often overlooked leading to more serious health complications. If someone with the illness seeks medical attention early, they can expect to make a full recovery.

Your doctor will explain the syphilis treatment options that are available to you. These can include:

* Antibiotics or penicillin. If a person has been infected for a short period of time, generally less than a year, they may be a candidate for a single injection of an antibiotic or penicillin. This treatment is highly effective.

* Additional dosages of antibiotics or penicillin. For someone who has been infected with syphilis for longer their syphilis treatment will most likely involve more injections of antibiotics or penicillin.

For a person who suspects they have syphilis they need to abstain from sexual activity until the sores are healed. It’s also wise to have another test for syphilis once your syphilis treatment has been completed. If the test comes back positive your doctor will want to continue with the antibiotic treatments until you have a negative result.

Once you have been diagnosed with syphilis you will be advised to inform all of your present and past sexual partners. Although they may test negative, it’s important that they are tested so they can begin syphilis treatment and also so they can inform any of their sexual partners in the event that their results do come back positive.

After syphilis treatment you are not immune to contracting the disease again. As soon as the treatment is completed you need to be aware that you are at risk.

One of the factors that should be considered in regards to being tested for syphilis is that you have absolutely no way of knowing whether or not your sexual partner is infected with syphilis. They may be receiving syphilis treatment and if they are not forthcoming with that information you will not know. Therefore you need to take the control into your own hands and have regular tests to determine if you have the disease.

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