Transcript The Risks of STIs

The Risk of STIs
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Is It Worth It?
Chapter 25 Lesson 1-2
Created by T. Stivers
Schindewolf Intermediate School
STDs
Sexually transmitted diseases or
infections are spread from person
sexual
to person through _______
contact
_________.
What is an epidemic?
It is a disease in which many
people in the same area and at
the same time are infected
epidemic
STDs are now an _________among
teenagers and college students
Communicable disease is a disease that spreads
pathogen is an organism that
A __________
causes disease.
Various pathogens:
Virus
Bacteria
Fungi
rickettsias
Protozoan
Many people do not know they
are infected with a STD and
pass it on to someone else
without knowing.
www.healthleader.uthouston.edu/archive/STD/2004/std_bacterialstd-0311.html
How at Risk are You?
You make the decisions...
Have Sex
Total Abstinence
Physical Effects:
Effects:
Unwanted pregnancy
You are in control
Sexually Transmitted
diseases
Greater self-respect
Reach goals
Emotional Effects:
Enjoy relationship
based on REAL love
Doubt, fear, loss of trust,
rejection, low self-esteem,
bitterness, anger, depression
Ultimate freedom
emotionally, physically,
and mentally
Sex is not _____,
love but sometimes
_____
they can feel like the same thing.
_____
Real love is about
____________;
commitment a relationship that
values you as a _____
total person:
•
•
•
•
Heart
Mind
Dreams
Emotions
NOT JUST
BODY
PARTS!
Use of alcohol and other drugs
increase your risk of STDs
Why
Alcohol and drugs
can lower your
inhibitions (your
self-consciousness
or will-power)
Consequences of STDs
• Some are asymptomatic – (w/o
symptoms) causing permanent damage
before you know
• Some are incurable – pathogens cannot
be eliminated from body (genital herpes,
AIDS)
• Some cause cancer and cannot be
cured (Hepatitis B, HPV)
• Some cause sterility – damage to the
reproductive organs
• Some cause birth defects in baby and can be
passed to baby before, during, or after birth
The only sure way to prevent
a STD is ...
Types of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Chlä-mĭd-ē-ä
• Chlamydia – most common
cause of sterility because of
no symptoms until it’s too late
(pelvic pain after it is too late)
• Genital herpes – incurable,
painful blisters and ulcers
caused by the herpes simplex
2 virus (45,000,000 people and
1,000,000 more each year)
Discharge,
burning, abdominal
pain
Untreated causes
PID (pelvic
inflammatory disease
in females = sterility
Herpes Simplex of
the tongue
www.condysil.com/a_sexually_transmitted_disease.html
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Herpes Simplex 2
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Medication can relieve symptoms
but not cure HS
Gonorrhea – bacteria affects mucous
membranes and causes_________.
infertility
It can spread to the bloodstream
infects
which damage joints and _______
an _______
unborn baby causing blindness.
Symptoms may not show up immediately.
M & F: Discharge
and painful
urination. 50%
females have no
symptoms
Newborn with Gonorrhea
http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/sexinfo?article=stds&refid=004
(Pap-i-low-ma)
Human Papillomavirus (HPV)
• several strains of ______
HP viruses but 30 types
are transmitted by sexual contact
• causes genital ______
warts that are highly
contagious
• no symptoms often (warts up to 3 months later)
cancers (causing almost
• develops into ________
all cervical cancer and cancer of the penis)
New vaccine for females
to prevent cervical cancer
http://www.independent.co
Genital warts
http://medicinehealthwebsite.
Human Papillomavirus (HPV)
Treatment can make warts go
away but virus is still there.
Syphilis – a sore(s) called
chancre(s) (shan-kuhr) appears on
genitals at the site of infection
Stages:
Primary: Single or more chancre sore(s)
anywhere from 10-90 days, painless and appears
where the bacteria entered body
Lasts 3-6 weeks
Heals w/o treatment
Infection progresses if treatment is not received
Secondary: Skin rash and mucous membrane
lesions
A rash of rough red, brownish spots on the body,
usually on soles and palms, but not an itchy rash
(more so if dark skinned)
Rash sometimes unnoticed or looks like other
rashes
May have flu-like symptoms at the same time:
fever, swollen lymph nodes, weight loss, sore
throat, aches, and fatigue
Patchy hair loss
w/o treatment moves into next stage
Latent Stage: The hidden stage where all
symptoms disappear w/o treatment but bacteria
remains in the body
Can last for years
If not treated:
•destroying tissue inc muscles
•eventually causes major organ
damage (heart, liver, CNS, and
kidneys
•Dementia/senility
•Blindness
•paralysis
http://www.becomehealthynow.com/condition
s/images/sexual/syphilis_gumma.jpg
See file for more resource info
Might heal w/o treatment but the bacteria is still
present. Must be treated medically or will go
into several stages that lead to death
Can transfer to unborn baby and is
deadly
Has stages –
primary,
secondary, and
latent stages
http://www.medicinari.com/ror.xml
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www.walne.org/sos
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