What are the symptoms of syphilis in women

Many women think that syphilis belongs to male urogenital infection and women are not likely to get this disease. In fact, it is not. To be precise, syphilis belongs to a serious sexually transmitted disease. It is highly contagious. If women do not take good safety precautions in their sexual life, they will also be infected with syphilis. So what symptoms will women have after getting syphilis?

Early symptoms of syphilis in women:

If a woman is infected with syphilis, the bacteria will quickly spread throughout the body, basically invading all the internal organs of the human body, and causing a variety of symptoms and symptoms that appear and disappear from time to time, with a long history of illness. Primary syphilis, also known as chancre, is the first symptom after the syphilis spirochete enters the body.

The dangerous period from high-risk sexual intercourse to the onset of skin lesions lasts about 2-4 weeks.

1. It most commonly occurs in the sexual organs, and rarely occurs in the lips, tongue, breasts, etc. In women, it is mostly in the labia majora and minora, clitoris, or cervix.

2. Generally there is no pain or dull pain. Without treatment, it will disappear on its own within 3-6 weeks. A few days to 1 week after the onset of chancre, the inguinal lymph nodes swell, often affecting several lymph nodes, which are lentil to cowpea in size, of medium strength, movable, isolated and unattached, without adhesion to surrounding tissues, no swelling on the skin surface, no pain or tenderness, and no cracks. Syphilis Treponema pallidum can be detected in the lymph node fluid during puncture.

3. The injury often appears as a single red maculopapule or papule at the beginning, which gradually expands and bulges into a ring-shaped or oval lump with clear boundaries, 1-2 cm in diameter, cartilage-like texture to the touch, erosion in the center or shallow ulceration, with clean red granulation tissue at the base of the ulcer and a small amount of serous secretion on the surface, which contains a large number of Treponema pallidum and is highly infectious.

Regarding the early symptoms of syphilis in women, the above content has already given a detailed introduction. Experts remind that if women are infected with syphilis, the consequences are more serious than those of men. If the patient cannot receive treatment in time, syphilis will easily lead to a further infection, causing the female reproductive and urinary systems to become diseased. Therefore, female friends with syphilis are expected to receive treatment as soon as possible.