Types of STD's
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Chlamydia or NGU |
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What to Watch for:
- 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 (pee).
- Pain in abdomen, sometimes with fever and nausea.
Men:
- Watery, white or yellow drip from the penis.
- Burning or pain when you urinate (pee).
How Do You Get This STD:
- Spread during vaginal, anal or 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.
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Genital Warts |
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What to Watch for:
- Symptoms show up 1-8 months after having sex.
- Small bumpy warts on the sex organs and anus.
- The warts do not go away.
- Itching or 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 or oral sex with someone who has genital warts.
What Happens If You Don't Get Treated:
- You can give genital warts to your sexual partner(s).
- Warts cannot be cured.
- More warts grow and are harder to get rid of.
- A mother with warts can give them to her baby during childbirth.
- May lead to precancerous conditions.
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Gonorrhea |
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What to Watch for:
- 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 (pee) or have a bowel movement.
- Abnormal periods or bleeding between periods.
- Bleeding from the vagina between periods.
- Cramps and pain in the lower abdomen (belly).
Men:
- Thick yellow or white drip from the penis.
- Burning or pain when you urinate (pee) or have a bowel movement.
- Need to urinate (pee) more often..
How Do You Get This STD:
- Spread during vaginal, anal or oral sex with someone who has gonorrhea.
What Happens If You Don't Get Treated:
- 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 be able to have children.
- A mother with gonorrhea can give it to her baby during childbirth.
- Can cause heart trouble, skin disease, arthritis and blindness.
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Hepatitis B |
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What to Watch for:
- Symptoms show up 1-9 months after contact with the hepatitis B virus
- Many people have no symptoms or mild symptoms.
- Flu-like feelings that don't go away.
- Tiredness.
- Jaundice (yellow skin).
- Dark urine, light-colored bowel movements.
How Do You Get This STD:
- Spread during vaginal, anal or oral sex with someone who has hepatitis B.
- Spread by sharing needles to inject drugs, or for any other reason.
- Spread by contact with infected blood.
What Happens If You Don't Get Treated:
- 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.
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Herpes |
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What to Watch for:
- Symptoms show up 1-30 days after having sex.
- Some people have no symptoms.
- Flu-like feelings.
- 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 or oral sex with someone who has herpes.
What Happens If You Don't Get Treated:
- You can give herpes to your sexual partner(s).
- Herpes cannot be cured.
- A mother with herpes can give it to her baby during childbirth.
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HIV/AIDS |
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What to Watch for:
- Symptoms show up several months to several years after contact with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
- Can be present for 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 or oral sex with someone who has HIV.
- Spread by sharing needles to inject drugs, or for any other reason.
- Spread by contact with infected blood.
What Happens If You Don't Get Treated:
- You can give HIV to your sexual partner(s) or someone you share a needle 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.
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Syphilis |
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What to Watch for:
1st Stage:
- Symptoms show up 3-12 weeks after having sex.
- A painless sore or sores on the mouth, sex organs, breast or fingers.
- Sore lasts 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 and flu-like feelings go away, but you still have syphilis.
How Do You Get This STD:
- Spread during vaginal, anal or oral sex with someone who has syphilis.
What Happens If You Don't Get Treated:
- You can give syphilis to your sexual partner(s).
- A mother with syphilis can give it to her baby during childbirth or have a miscarriage.
- Can cause heart disease, brain damage, blindness and death.
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Vaginitis |
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What to Watch for:
- Some women have no symptoms.
- Itching, burning or pain in the vagina.
- More discharge from the vagina than normal.
- Discharge smells and/or looks different.
How Do You Get This STD:
- Spread during vaginal, anal or oral sex. Men can carry vaginitis infections without symptoms.
What Happens If You Don't Get Treated:
- You can give syphilis to your sexual partner(s).
- Uncomfortable symptoms will continue.
- Men can get infections in the penis, prostate gland or urethra.
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