STDs
Chlamydia or NGU
Signs and Symptoms
- Symptoms show up 7-21 days after having sex.
- Most women and some men have no symptoms
- Women:
- Discharge from the vagina
- Bleeding from the vagina between periods
- Burning or pain when you urinate
- Pain in abdomen, sometimes with fever and nausea
- Men:
- Watery, white or yellow drip from the penis.
- Burning or pain when you urinate
How Do You Get this STD??
- Spread during vaginal, anal, and oral sex with someone who has chlamydia or NGU.
What Happens If You Don't Get Treated??
- You can give chlamydia or NGU to your sexual partner(s).
- Can lead to more serious infection.
- Reproductive organs can be damaged.
- Both men and women may no longer be able to have children.
- A mother with chlamydia can give it to her baby during childbirth.
Genital Warts
Signs and Symptoms
- Symptoms show up 1-8 months after contact with HPV, the viros that causes genital warts.
- Small, bumpy warts on the sex organs and anus.
- Itching and burning around the sex organs.
- After warts go away, the virus stays in the body. The warts can come back.
How Do You Get This STD??
- Spread during vaginal, anal, and oral sex wih someone who has genital warts.
How Is This Disease Spread??
- You can give genital warts to your sexual partner(s).
- Warts may go away on their own, remain unchanged, or grow and spread.
- A mother with warts can give them to her baby during childbirth.
Gonorrhea
Signs and Symptoms
- Symptoms show up 2-21 days after having sex.
- Most women and some men have no symptoms
- Women:
- Thick yellow or white discharge from the vagina.
- Burning or pain when you urinate or have a bowel movement.
- Abnormal periods or bleeding between periods.
- Cramps or pain in the lower abdomen.
- Men:
- Thick yellow or white drip from the penis.
- Burning or pain when you urinate or have a bowel movement.
- Need to urinate more often.
How Do You Get This STD??
- Spread during vaginal, anal and oral sex with someone who has gonorrhea.
How Is This Disease Spread??
- You can give gonorrhea to your sexual partner(s).
- Can lead to more serious infection.
- reproductive organs can be damaged.
- Both men and women may no longer beable to have children.
- A mother with gonorrhea may give it to her baby during childbirth.
- Can cause heart trouble, skin disease, arthritis, and blindness.
Hepatitis B
Signs and Symptoms
- Symptoms show up 1-9 months after contact with the Hepatitis B virus.
- Many people have no symptoms or mild symptoms.
- Flu-like symptoms that don't go away.
- Tiredness.
- Jaundice.
- Dark urine, light colored bowel movements.
How Do You Get This STD??
- Spread during vaginal, anal and oral sex with someone who has hepatitis B.
How Is This Disease Spread??
- You can give hepatitis B to your sexual partner(s) or someone you share a needle with.
- Some people recover completely.
- Some people cannot be cured. Symptoms go away, but they can still give hepatitis B to others.
- Can cause permanent liver damage.
- A mother with hepatitis B can give it to her baby during childbirth.
Herpes
Signs and Symptoms
- Symptoms show up 1-30 days after having sex.
- Some people have no symptoms.
- Flu-like sypmtoms.
- Small, painful blisters on the sex organs or mouth.
- Itching or burning before the blisters appear.
- Blisters last 1-3 weeks.
- Blisters go away, but you still have herpes. Blisters can come back.
How Do You Get This STD??
- Spread during vaginal, anal and sex with someone who has herpes.
How Is This Disease Spread??
- You can give herpes to your sexual partner(s).
- Herpes cannot be cured.
- A mother with herpes can give it to her baby during children.
HIV/AIDS
Signs and Symptoms
- Symptoms show up several months to several years after contact with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
- Can be present fo many years with no symptoms.
- Unexplained weight loss or tiredness.
- Flu-like feelings that don't go away.
- Diarrhea.
- White spots in mouth
- In women, yeast infections that don't go away.
How Do You Get This STD????
- Spread during vaginal, anal and oral sex with someone who had HIV.
- Spread by sharing needles to inject drugs, or for any other reasons.
- Spread by contact with infected blood.
How Is This Disease Spread??
- You can give HIV to your sexual partner(s) or someone you share needles with.
- HIV cannot be cured. Most people die from the disease.
- A mother with HIV can give it to her baby in the womb, during birth or while breastfeeding.
Syphilis
Signs and Symptoms
1st Stage:
- Symptoms show up 3-12 weeks after having sex.
- A painless, reddish-brown sore or sores on the mouth, sex organs, breasts or fingers.
- Sores last 1-5 weeks.
- Sore goes away, but you still have syphilis.
2nd Stage:
- Symptoms show up 1 week - 6 months after sore heals.
- A rash anywhere on the body.
- Flu-like feelings.
- Rash andd flu-like feelings go away, but you still have syphilis.
How Do You Get This STD??
- Spread during vaginal, anal and oral sex with someone who has syphilis.
How Do You Spread This Disease??
- You can give syphilis to your sexual partner(s).
- A mother with syphilis can give it to her baby during pregnancy or have a miscarriage.
- Can cause heart disease, brain damage, blindness and death.
Vaginitis
Signs and Symptoms
- Some women have no symptoms.
- Itching, during or pain in the vagina.
- More discharge from the vagina than normal.
- Discharge smells and/or looks different.
How Do You Get This STD??
- Can be spread during vaginal, anal and oral sex. Men can carry vaginitis infections without symptoms.
How Do You Spread This STD??
- You can give vaginitis infections to your sexual partner(s).
- Uncomfortable symptoms will continue.
- Men can get infections in the penis, prostate gland or uretha.
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