Archive for May 17th, 2010
Manifestations of Children With Syphilis
May 17th, 2010 | 
Author: Congenital syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease present in-utero and at birth, and happens when a child is born from a mother with syphilis. Uncured syphilis fallouts in an elevated danger of a dreadful result of pregnancy, which includes Mulberry molars in the fetus. Syphilis can also lead to miscarriages, stillbirths, premature births, or death of the newborns.
A number of infants with congenital syphilis present symptoms at birth, but the majority build up symptoms later. Uncured babies can have deformity, delay in development, or seizures together with loads of other dilemmas such as rash, swollen liver and spleen, fever, jaundice, and anemia; and sores on contaminated babies are contagious. Seldom, the symptom of syphilis goes unnoticed in infants so that they build up the symptoms of late-stage syphilis, which includes harm to their bones, eyes, ears, teeth, and brain. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 40% of births from mothers with syphilis are stillborn, 40-70% of the survivors will acquire infection, and 12% of these will afterwards die in early life.