If you have an itch, drip, or burn in your squishy it could be a sexually transmitted disease (#STD). Part of squishy health is knowing the signs, symptoms, testing options, treatment, and preventing coming in contact with them. STDs get transmitted from one person to another by having unprotected squishy or being exposed infected body fluids (vaginal secretions, semen) or sores to another person’s mucous membrane (vagina, urethra in a man, anus. But your eyes, ears, and nose are made of mucous membrane too and they could get infected with STDs. STDs like dark, moist, and warm places like your squishy and when they have the opportunity to transmit, they are like having a party up in your squishy.
There are 2 kinds of STDs and they are bacterial and viral. Bacterial STDs are curable and the most common are Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Syphilis, and Trichomoniasis. When treated these type of STDs can be cured by antibiotics. However, both you and your partner need to be treated to prevent transmitting it back and forth. Viral STDs include HIV, Herpes, HPV (genital warts), and Hepatitis (which some have vaccines). Viral STD’s can be treated with medications to reduce exposure to others, minimize symptoms, and manage the infection; however, they typically are not curable. Again if your partner(s) has been exposed, they need to be tested and treated. Being educated, knowing the where to get tested and having access to treatment is vital in squishy health.
Symptoms of STDs include an itchy squishy (throat, vagina, penis, anus) area, burning when you go pee, unusual discharge that may be yellowish or greenish and it could smell, or it could be painful when having squishy (sex). When someone has an STD in his or her squishy it can become irritated and can’t protect itself like it could when your squishy is healthy and in tact. It’s like if you had a rash on your arm, if it meets another infection it’s like you might as well come up in here too. So if your squishy is all irritated from an STD and it gets exposed to another STD; it is much easier to contract that new STD. Important-STDs often go asymptomatic or without any symptoms; which means most people don’t even know that they have an STD or that they could possibly be exposing someone else with that STD. Yet another reason to know the signs and symptoms, get tested regularly, and get treated if you have been exposed.
You can test with your primary care doctor, at a community clinic, health department or STD clinic, and some even have home test kits. Testing for STDs could include urinating in a cup, taking a blood test, swabbing the infected squishy. If you have been exposed to an STD, tell your sex partner(s) so they can get treated and you don’t pass it back and forth. Untreated STDs can lead to spreading it to other sex partners, pelvic inflammatory disease, infertility, sterility, or possibly death. The more you educate yourself about STD risks, signs and symptoms, testing and what is “normal” or not for your own body will help you to identify if you have been exposed or need to get tested and treated for STDs.
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SquishyLady
Original Post: Apr 2, 2016 @ 12:54