Foreword: Take Guangdong Province as an example. According to the data published on the website of the Guangdong Provincial Health and Family Planning Commission, the number of syphilis cases in Guangdong Province in 2011 was 46,742, of which about 80% of the patients with tertiary syphilis were elderly.
The above is just an early data, and the number of syphilis infections in the elderly is not too well known now.
However, compared with the data of the elderly on HIV/AIDS, data from the China Center for Disease shows that there are currently 1.05 million HIV/AIDS patients in the mainland, of whom 44% are over 50 years old. The HIV infection rate among the elderly has surpassed that of Europe and the United States.
It can be inferred from this that the number of syphilis infections, which is also one of the sexually transmitted diseases, may not be much lower.
These infected elderly people, coupled with a lack of medical knowledge, are undoubtedly walking bombs. Recently, a grandmother suspected of causing syphilis to her two-year-old grandson by feeding her grandson chewed food.
What happened:
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Recently, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, a 2-year-old child was found to be positive for syphilis, which made the family very nervous. After an emergency examination by the whole family, it was found that the parents of the toddler were negative.
However, the child's mother thought that the child's grandparents are also important contacts of the child in daily life, so she strongly requested that the grandparents should also be examined. I don't know if I don't check the results, but the results are: Grandpa is negative, Grandma is positive.
The child's mother said that the grandmother likes to chew the food and feed it to the child, the reason is that it is easy for the child to digest, although the family has dissuaded many times, but the stubborn grandmother just did not change this habit until it caused a catastrophe.
But how much does it have to do with syphilis in children?
According to the doctor's professional explanation: syphilis is contagious, and the presence of Treponema pallidum can be detected in the patient's ulcer exudate, blood, semen, saliva, etc.
Judging from this case, the grandmother is a syphilis patient, so her saliva or bleeding gums may seep into the food when chewing, and the child will be infected with Treponema pallidum after eating, and naturally suffer from syphilis.
Netizens revealed three doubts:
How did grandma get this STD? The jury is still inconclusive, and we can't make assumptions!
Again, the grandfather who lives with his grandmother is not infected?
Since there are four ways of transmission of syphilis, sexual transmission, mother-to-child transmission, blood-borne transmission and a very small number of indirect transmission, but grandpa does not, what is the reason for this?
The last one, the poor child, even if he is cured of syphilis, may be plagued by syphilis for the rest of his life.
Because syphilis is cured, but the blood test will still show positive, and the child will be followed with suspicion wherever he goes, including various public examinations, physical examinations, and then there will only be all kinds of painstaking explanations and explanations, which is the most uncomfortable!
Netizens commented:
Written in the end: as our society begins to enter an aging society, there are more and more problems in all aspects of the emotional life of the elderly, and senile sex has become a problem that cannot be ignored and cannot be avoided.
Among the elderly people living with HIV, there are three times as many men as women, and most of them are mainly engaged in agricultural activities and have a low level of education. Among them, more than 90% of the transmission routes are heterosexual transmission.
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