Syphilis symptoms in men may occur in all parts of the body, including the skin, lymph nodes, eyes, nerves and so on, and patients may have hard chancre, enlarged lymph nodes, syphilis rash, uveitis, neurosyphilis and other manifestations.
1. Skin: about 3 weeks after male patients are infected with syphilis, oval or round superficial ulcers may appear in the genital area, and the edges of the ulcers will appear button shaped bulging, usually not accompanied by obvious self-conscious symptoms. In addition, patients with stage 2 syphilis may also appear in the skin and mucous membranes all over the body with a variety of damage patterns of syphilis rash, which may be manifested as erythema, papules or nodules.
Patients with stage III syphilis will also have nodular syphilis rash, syphilis gumma and other manifestations.
2. Lymph nodes: Generally, patients with stage 1 syphilis will have symptoms of swollen lymph nodes in the affected area or groin.
3. Eyes: male patients with syphilis spirochete invasion of the eyes may cause uveitis, patients will be photophobic, tearing, eye pain and other manifestations. In addition, some patients will have other symptoms such as vision loss, black shadow flying, optic nerve atrophy and so on.
4. Neurological: men with neurosyphilis will have nausea and vomiting, severe headache and other manifestations of syphilitic meningitis. If the patient develops meningeal vascular syphilis, he will have symptoms of meningeal vascular syphilis such as emotional instability, vertigo and insomnia.
In addition to this, patients may develop other neurological changes such as paralytic dementia, spinal tuberculosis, dysarthria, and ataxia.
The presence of syphilis in boys can also lead to symptoms in the cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, genitourinary, skeletal muscles, and endocrine glands.
It is recommended that patients infected with syphilis should seek timely and active treatment to avoid delay.