What should I do if I accidentally get an STD?

Whenever the long holidays and holidays just after, the number of patients coming to the Department of Dermatology and Venereology will increase, many of them have had sexual contact during the holidays. It seems that the holidays are really a high incidence of “high-risk sexual behavior”. Here, with my many years of clinical experience, I would like to introduce to you what you need to pay attention to after having high-risk sex and what you should do if you accidentally get an STD. It is very possible to get an STD after having high-risk sex, especially for sex without taking safety measures. If unprotected high-risk sexual contact does occur, you need to watch for changes in yourself at several points in time: 1. Several days after high-risk. Usually, if there is redness, itchiness, discharge, red itchy or dirty glans, foreskin blisters, ulcers, etc. in the urethra 2-3 days or a little longer after high risk, or if there is tofu-like leucorrhea and itching in the vagina, it is most likely that you are infected with gonorrhea, urethritis, glansitis, mycotic vaginitis, genital herpes and other STDs; most of these diseases can also be detected in time. 2.After several weeks or months of high risk. If vulvar ulcers appear, you may be infected with syphilis; at this time, blood tests can be performed to initially rule out AIDS, syphilis, herpes, etc.; 3. Several months after infection (3 months on average). If the vulva appears warty superfluous organisms, it is possible to have warts; at this time, blood tests for AIDS, syphilis, herpes, etc. can determine the diagnosis or determine the exclusion. If you really have an STD, what should you do? I’ll give you ten words! First, don’t panic. For most people, there will be psychological tension after getting an STD, and some people have even committed suicide before they can even pick up the results of the STD test. In fact, this panic and even fear is basically unnecessary, because many STDs can be cured, even if not completely cut off, but also can be controlled very well. Secondly, attach great importance to it. The first thing you need to do is to take a look at the actual website. If you don’t pay attention to the STD, some will become chronic, some long-term contagious, easy to infect the family, and some will cause infertility, the consequences are very serious. The third, timely medical treatment. After getting a sexually transmitted disease, most people can do timely medical treatment, but sometimes due to some objective factors, such as work too busy, the elderly children need to take care of, inconvenient to leave alone, etc., may not be timely medical treatment, often delay the disease, and even produce more serious consequences. Fourth, the regular hospital. Some patients are always willing to look at STD in small inconspicuous places, thinking that these places will not encounter acquaintances, but these places to look at STD, examination and laboratory tests are very simple, diagnosis and treatment is likely to be irregular and unscientific, all suggest that you must choose a regular hospital, such as a tertiary hospital, or a hospital affiliated with a medical school, or a provincial or municipal hospital directly under the people’s hospital, etc. Fifth, scientific examination. After getting STD, it is not scientific for the doctor to determine the diagnosis simply by symptoms alone and a full set of examination regardless of the condition. It is necessary to arrange laboratory tests scientifically and reasonably after detailed consultation and physical examination. Of course, patients generally have no way to judge which tests are scientific, so it is important to choose a regular hospital and a regular department. Hospital level is higher, due to the experience, the accuracy of laboratory tests will also be higher, because the reagents used may be better, and the relevant test personnel are more experienced. Sixth, reasonable use of drugs. As long as we choose a regular hospital and department, with a regular scientific examination, with a more accurate diagnosis, and then the next step is scientific and reasonable treatment. Treatment is usually done by the doctor to help you choose the medication, but the patient can also completely discuss with the doctor to develop a plan. In addition, after the doctor gives you a prescription, I hope you can strictly follow the medical advice to implement. Seventh, the course of treatment is sufficient. Some STD patients feel good soon after medication, some patients are happy when they get better, and the medicine is not eaten. Insufficient treatment can leave some hidden problems that can lead to some chronic diseases, for example, female cervicitis patients who do not use enough medicine may lead to chronic cervicitis, tubitis, incomplete absorption of secretions becomes tubal adhesions, leading to blockage of the fallopian tubes, it may lead to This may lead to infertility. Eighth, timely follow-up. An experienced doctor usually tells you when to come for a review after you have been seen. An important purpose of the review is to confirm that you are well, but patients tend to pay attention when they are sick, and when they are well, they don’t pay attention to it, so they tend to ignore the issue of review, which is very bad. The actual fact is that you’ll be able to get a lot more than just a few of the items that you’ve had problems with, and generally speaking it doesn’t cost much. Some STDs need to be rechecked twice, such as gonorrhea, mycoplasma infection, etc. Ninth, the sexual partner to inform. When diagnosed with an STD, it is important to inform as many people as possible who have had sexual contact with you before, these people may be your temporary sexual partners or your spouse, all need to be informed. Especially the person who may have infected you, he/she may not know that he/she has an STD and therefore may infect more people. Some patients who have an STD are usually willing to hide it from their spouse, preferring to find their own way out, even if they have to borrow money to cure the disease. You should know that in the family whether the husband or wife have the obligation and responsibility to protect each other’s health, informing each other the truth is beneficial, if you do not let each other check and treatment, no husband and wife with the same treatment, STD is likely to play ping pong as well as cross-contagious back and forth between the two. So, before confirming that your STD has been cured, what you must do is to minimize sexual contact between husband and wife, and if it is unavoidable, try to wear condoms. Tenth, avoid in the future. It’s a very embarrassing thing for everyone to have an STD, so learn a lesson, maybe this time you’re not infected with a very serious STD, after careful treatment by the doctor quickly recovered, but next time must be so “lucky”? That’s not necessarily true. So, make sure you find ways to avoid similar sexual contact with others in the future.