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Who would have thought
A 2-year-old child can also get this disease?
The 2-year-old child tested positive for syphilis, and the originally happy family fell upside down
This spring, for Hangzhou's 2-year-old Hao Hao (pseudonym) and his family, it was a bit of a nightmare.
In March this year, Haohao's mother took her child to prepare for a minor surgical operation, and a blood test was required before the operation. Unexpectedly, there was a big problem with the test results, and Hao Hao was found to be positive for syphilis.
"The baby did not have any symptoms, and there was no rash on his body, and the doctor said that it could not be operated on, and syphilis should be treated first." The child's condition turned this happy family upside down for a while, and Haohao's parents broke out into a fierce quarrel, but both of them were negative after examination.
Haohao's parents took their children to the dermatology department of Hangzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine for treatment. It was learned that the child had been diagnosed with syphilis before the operation. To be on the safe side, the doctor asked the patient to do a second test, and the result was the same: positive for syphilis. Although there are no other symptoms and it has not affected life, in order to let the child recover as soon as possible, the doctor first let Haohao receive systematic plum removal treatment.
But what's the problem? How did the child's illness come about? Where is the source of infection? Haohao's mother thought that there were grandparents at home who took care of the children, and strongly requested to be tested as well, and the results were surprising: grandpa was negative, grandma was positive. Syphilis is likely to be transmitted to Hao Hao through his grandmother!
Grandma likes to chew food and feed it to her grandchildren, and this parenting habit leads to indirect infections
After learning the news, Haohao's grandmother was silent, there is no way to know how the grandmother suffered from syphilis, the problem is to find the cause of the disease to spread to the child, not only the elderly need to be treated, but the lifestyle of the patient's family also needs to be improved to reduce the probability of infection.
"My mother likes to chew the food and feed it to the child, saying that it is good to digest, we have said this habit many times and have not changed, I don't know if Haohao's illness is related to this habit." Haohao's parents said.
Yuan Chengda, deputy director of the dermatology department of Hangzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, explained that the only source of syphilis is syphilis patients, and the presence of treponema pallidum can be detected in ulcer exudate, blood, semen, and saliva of patients. Therefore, syphilis is mainly transmitted through sexual, mother-to-child transmission, and blood-borne transmission, and indirect transmission of infections can occur under very coincidental conditions.
"If the child's grandmother has such parenting habits, it is possible to cause indirect infection. For example, during chewing, when the child is fed food because of bleeding gums and saliva, the child may be infected with Treponema pallidum and thus become infected with syphilis. ”
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Syphilis is a "ruthless character"
It not only affects the skin, blood vessels, and central nervous system
It can also damage all organs of the body
Don't leave it alone because it's asymptomatic
It causes more pain than you think
What is "syphilis"?
Syphilis is a very contagious and harmful sexually transmitted disease. It can cause damage to various organs and tissues of the body (such as osteosyphilis, ocular syphilis, etc.).
In general, the symptoms of syphilis are divided into three stages:
The first stage is mainly chancre symptoms, which appear as dark red papules, which can appear on the genitals, breasts, limbs and tongue, etc., and the affected area is generally not painful or itchy, and the symptoms can disappear after 3-4 weeks.
The second stage is mainly manifested as skin lesions, and after the chancre subsides, there is an asymptomatic period after the chancre resides, and a symmetrical red rash may appear, which is mostly seen on the trunk, limbs, palms or soles, and can have systemic symptoms such as fever, headache, muscle aches, and swollen lymph nodes.
After two years or more of infection, if it is not treated, or the treatment is not standardized, the course of the disease enters the third stage, and damage to multiple organs such as the brain, cardiovascular, bones, and eyes can occur, and in severe cases, it can be disabling or even life-threatening.
The main route of transmission of syphilis
▣ What is the main route of transmission of syphilis? Syphilis can be transmitted through sexual contact, blood, and mother-to-child. Sexual transmission is the most important route of transmission.
There is also a risk of syphilis infection from broken skin or mucous membranes that come into direct contact with the blood or body fluids of a syphilis patient.
▣ Can daily contact spread syphilis? Ordinary contact between the workplace and public places (eg, shaking hands, hugging, eating together) does not spread syphilis.
Netizen comments
In this regard, many netizens expressed their dissupport for the behavior of "chewing food and feeding it to children". 👇
But some netizens said that their grandmother would do the same before. 👇
What do you think? Let's talk in the comment section
Source | Hangzhou Traffic 918, Hangzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xinjiang Disease Control, Guangzhou Daily
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