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Savanna's Health Blog |
Tuesday, 08 May 2012
HEALTH – SEX EDUCATION – STI’S & STD’S Name: Savanna Bowens Date: 5-7-2012
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STI/STD
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Transmission
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Signs & Symptoms
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Short-term effects
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Long-term effects
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Prevention
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Treatment
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Chlamydia
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Vaginal, anal or oral sex.
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Men have slight discharge from penis, females usually have no symptoms.
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Discharge or burning sensation while urinating
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Damage to female reproductive organs. Damage among men are rare
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Condoms, abstinence.
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Treated and cured with antibiotics.
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Gonorrhea
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The infection can be spread by contact with the mouth, vagina, penis, or anus.
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Burning and pain while urinating.
Discharge from the penis or vagina.
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Female: pelvic inflammatory disease.
Male: Epididymitis
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Infertility and increased risk of ectopic pregnancy.
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Condoms, and abstinence.
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Antibiotics can successfully cure gonorrhea in adolescents and adults.
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Hepatitis
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Drugs, alcohol use, or certain medical conditions. But in most cases, it's caused by a virus that infects the liver.
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Fatigue, nausea, poor appetite, belly pain, a mild fever, or yellow skin or eyes (jaundice.)
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A+B: Sick for a little then it will go away on its own.
A
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C: Serious liver damage.
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Use clean needles, wash your hands, cook food thoroughly,
and be careful coming in contact with blood.
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A+B: Go away on their own. C: treatment is available to reduce damage on liver but no treatment to make it go away.
Vaccines to prevent it.
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Herpes
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Can be conceived during sexual contact with someone who is infected with the virus.
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Appear as one or more blisters on or around the genitals or rectum.
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Blisters that eventually go away.
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Number of outbreaks tends to decrease over a period of years.
Fatal infections in babies
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Condoms,
Abstinence.
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There is no treatment that can cure herpes, but antiviral medications can shorten and prevent outbreaks during the period of time the person takes the medication.
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus
(HIV)
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Unprotected anal sex.
Having multiple sex partners.
Sharing needles.
Being born to an infected mother.
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Within a few weeks of being infected with HIV, some people develop flu-like symptoms that last for a week or two, but others have no symptoms at all.
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Flu like symptoms for two weeks or so.
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Damage a person’s body by destroying specific blood cells, called CD4+ T cells, which are crucial to helping the body fight diseases.
Death.
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Abstain from sex, reduce sex partners, condoms and using new unshared syringes.
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If you have HIV, you can get medical care, treatment, and supportive services to help you stay healthy and reduce your ability to transmit the virus to others.
Condoms, limit sex partners, abstain from sex.
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STI/STD
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Transmission
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Signs & Symptoms
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Short-term effects
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Long-term effects
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Prevention
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Treatment
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Human
Papilloma
Virus
(HPV)
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Genital contact, most often during vaginal and anal sex. HPV may also be passed on during oral sex and genital-to-genital contact.
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Most people with HPV do not develop symptoms or health problems from it. In 90% of cases, the body’s immune system clears HPV naturally within two years.
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In 90% of cases, the body’s immune system clears HPV naturally within two years.
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•Genital warts
•Rarely, warts in the throat
•Cervical cancer and other, less common but serious cancers, including cancers of the vulva, vagina, penis, anus, and oropharynx.
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Abstain from sex, minimize sex partners, and condoms.
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In 90% of cases, the body’s immune system clears HPV naturally within two years.
There is no treatment for the virus itself, but there are treatments for the diseases that HPV can cause.
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Pelvic
Inflammatory Disease
(PID)
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Complication of some sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), especially chlamydia and gonorrhea.
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Symptoms include fever, unusual vaginal discharge that may have a foul odor, painful intercourse, painful urination, irregular menstrual bleeding, and pain in the right upper abdomen (rare).
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Flu or cold like symptom.
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Damage to reproductive system.
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Abstinence, minimized sex partners, condoms. Get tested for std’s.
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Cured with several types of antibiotics
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Pubic Lice
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Teenagers and usually spreads during sexual activity
Contact with objects such as toilet seats, sheets, blankets, or bathing suits at a store. However, this type of spreading is rare.
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Pubic lice are small, six-legged creatures that infect the pubic hair area and lay eggs. These lice can also be found in armpit hair and eyebrows.
itching in the area covered by pubic hair (it often gets worse at night).
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Itching sores.
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Infestation to other parts of the body, you wont have friends.
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Abstinence, condoms, shave.
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Prescription wash.
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Syphilis
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Transmission most often occurs through direct contact with a syphilis sore during vagina, anal, or oral sex.
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Sores in genital area, swelling of the nymph nodes
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The chancre lasts for 28- 42 days, heals without treatment.
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May leave little scars.
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Abstinence, minimized sex partners, condoms. Get tested for std’s
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A single intramuscular injection of penicillin, an antibiotic, will cure a person who has had syphilis for less than a year.
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1. In what ways has your thinking about the topic of STI’s & STD’s changed? Explain your response with supporting examples.
I’m never having sex ever -_- I don’t want to die.
2. How will this learning affect your behavior? Explain your response with supporting example.
I will abstain from sexual relations.
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