Sexual Health
What is a sexually transmitted disease? What diseases can be transmitted through sexual transmission
Post Date June, 25 2023
Sexually transmitted diseases are defined as diseases transmitted through sexual contact transmission. At present, common sexually transmitted diseases include AIDS, syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia infection, HPV infection, condyloma acuminatum, etc.
The essence of sexually transmitted diseases is close genital contact infection. Sexual contact, close contact and friction with the reproductive organs, can replace body fluids, and cause small wounds on the skin and mucous membranes of the reproductive organs. These wounds increase the chance of pathogenic infection.
HIV, which causes AIDS, and Treponema pallidum, which causes syphilis, are present in all body fluids, including blood and semen. During sexual intercourse, the exchange of bodily fluids can cause viruses and spirochetes to enter the body through minor trauma, infecting the other party. Chlamydia and Neisseria gonorrhoeae mainly infect the columnar skin of the genital organs, such as the male urethral columnar skin, and the female urethral or cervical columnar skin. During sexual intercourse, fluid exchange infections and local suppuration occur. Male symptoms include redness and swelling of the glans, pyuria, frequent urination, painful urination, and hematuria, while female symptoms include purulent leukorrhea, menstrual disorders, uterine tenderness, abdominal pain, and fallopian tube abscess. It can also cause pyuria, frequent urination, painful urination, and hematuria.
HPV is a virus that likes skin viruses and only exists within the skin tissue. If one party's external genitalia and cervical skin is infected with HPV, sexual intercourse can infect the other party, especially if there are small wounds in the skin tissue, which are prone to HPV infection. High risk HPV infection can cause cervical cancer, external genitalia cancer, anal cancer, and penile cancer
Sexually transmitted diseases cannot be transmitted through blood simultaneously.
AIDS and syphilis are both sexually transmitted diseases and blood borne diseases. If the blood is not clean during blood transfusion, it may be infected. At the same time, these two diseases can also be transmitted vertical transmission from mother to child. Infection of the fetus through the placenta during pregnancy, contact with the mother's blood during childbirth, and so on. Neisseria gonorrhoeae, chlamydia, and HPV are not blood borne diseases. Neisseria gonorrhoeae and chlamydia mainly cause local infections and abscesses, rarely causing sepsis. Even if bacteria enter the bloodstream, patients will not donate blood during severe illness due to severe symptoms. HPV cannot enter the bloodstream at all.
Blood borne diseases may not necessarily be sexually transmitted. Hepatitis B and hepatitis C are also blood borne diseases, but they are mainly transmitted through blood transfusions, shared syringes, dialysis, and other blood borne methods. They can also be transmitted from mother to child, but sexual transmission is rare.
The principle of sexual transmission is close contact transmission, so the use of condoms as a physical barrier can prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
