Syphilitic chancre is one of the signs of syphilis.
Before the onset of AIDS, syphilis was the heaviest ofsexually transmitted diseases. The causative agent - all known pale treponema - was discovered as far back as 1905. The bacterium received its name for a rare property - the inability to be dyed with aniline dyes. The shape of the bacterium is spiral, resembling a corkscrew.
Pale spirochaete under adverse conditions,which can create for it, for example, antibiotics, is covered with a shell and "falls asleep," thus protecting yourself against all factors from outside. "Wake up" the same treponema after the passed course of treatment, thereby letting know that it is too early to speak about the victory over the disease.
The causative agent can penetrate the human bodythrough microscopic cracks and cuts, which will not even be visible to the naked eye. In the vast majority of cases, the disease is transmitted sexually, but other ways of transmission of infection are possible.
Symptoms of the disease
Syphilis can for a long time not show anysymptoms at all, but only develop inside the body slowly and imperceptibly. The primary sign of beginning syphilis can be called emerging periods on skin rash. After the rash, the disease will not manifest immediately, but only after a few weeks, giving time for the spread of bacteria along with lymph and blood throughout the body.
When the disease begins to manifest its firstserious symptoms, the patient develops syphilitic chancres that arise only in places where the infection has penetrated the body. Syphilitic chancres are small erosions or sores on the patient's body.
Primary syphilis
Syphilitic chancres most often appear on thegenital organs of patients, because it is in these places that the infection is transmitted from one partner to another. Shankr in men often occurs on the head or foreskin of the penis, much less often on the trunk of the penis itself. In homosexuals with syphilis, the chancre can be observed on the anus or in the folds that form the anus. Syphilitic chancre in women are located on the large and small labia, on the perineum or at the entrance to the vagina, there are cases of chancre and on the cervix.
In fact, syphilitic chancres canarise in any part of the body - from the mouth, to the skin. There are cases when chancres arise on palatine tonsils, in this case the disease becomes very similar to angina. However, the throat barely hurts, and the temperature remains within normal limits.
Secondary syphilis
Secondary syphilis is characterized by a small rash ofthe whole body, when the body temperature rises noticeably, and the general well-being of the patient deteriorates noticeably. The rash is of two kinds and in the first case it does not cause any discomfort to the patient, so he may not even notice it, in addition, even the doctor, if he could not detect the chancre on examination, may well confuse this rash with rubella or measles. In the second case, the rash is manifested by small pustules, similar to similar rashes at smallpox. These pustules also do not hurt at all and do not show themselves at all.
Tertiary syphilis
During the third stage on the patient's skin,there are large knots, the sizes of which can reach the walnut, and in other cases also the chicken egg. These nodes are called gammas. Gummas appear singly, but they are accompanied by smaller tubercles, which often appear in large groups. Such gums can penetrate into any tissues, causing their destruction. For example, everyone knows such a symptom as "nose syphilitic" - in this case, the gum germinates through the skin to the nasal cartilage and destroys it, creating a dentic effect.
In addition, syphilis quite often strikesand the internal organs of patients, destroying sometimes and vitally important. If syphilis is not treated early in its onset, then it will be difficult enough to stop the spreading infection.
