How Long Can You Live With Syphilis? (The incubation period of syphilis is 9-90 days)
Syphilis is a common venereal disease. After a patient is infected with syphilis, after a certain period of activity, due to the increase of the body’s resistance or due to the influence of treatment, the clinical symptoms temporarily disappear, but the syphilis serum reaction is positive. This stage is called the incubation period of syphilis. The incubation period of syphilis is 9-90 days, with an average of 3 weeks. Patients usually begin to develop symptoms 2-4 weeks after syphilis infection.
So how long can syphilis patients generally live?
Syphilis is a chronic disease caused by Treponema pallidum that we are not familiar with, and it is a comprehensive systemic sexually transmitted disease. The manifestations of this type of the disease are invisible to us, and it usually passes between people. Sexual intercourse is spreading, and people regardless of gender may be infected with this type of disease.
Condition analysis: How long can you live with syphilis?
Syphilis is a curable sexually transmitted disease. Generally, it will not affect life after regular treatment in the early stage. There is no need to worry about excessive stress. If it is late-stage syphilis, syphilitic gum swelling appears, which is destructive, and some patients will experience heart disease. Vascular syphilis, neurosyphilis, complicated by heart failure, dementia, spinal tuberculosis, and cerebrovascular diseases. Late syphilis usually occurs 2 to 20 years after infection. Therefore, active treatment is recommended after infection with syphilis. Penicillin is the first choice. Penicillin allergy can be treated with doxycycline or erythromycin. In summary, syphilis does not significantly affect life expectancy, late syphilis will affect the quality of life, and patients will die of complications such as heart failure.
For a patient with advanced syphilis, his survival time is not certain. If advanced syphilis is treated with standard treatment, the survival time can be different according to the severity of the affected area. If it is relatively mild syphilis, it may not even affect the life span.
For a syphilis patient, avoiding sexual intercourse is the best way to ensure that it will not only help your body recover, but will also reduce the possibility of infection for others. It is only good for you and yourself. Syphilis is not a terminal disease. It can be cured if you go to a regular hospital for examination and treatment in time, and you can live to natural death. If there is no treatment, it depends on the infection process and the individual’s ability to resist disease. There are people who live for several to more than ten years.
