Warning: Do not attempt to treat a sexually transmitted disease on its own, as these diseases are infectious and dangerous. You need to seek out a doctor.
Bacterial sexually transmitted diseases can be cured with antibiotics if treatment begins early enough. If you are receiving antibiotics against a sexually transmitted disease, it is important that you take the medicine as prescribed, even if the symptoms go away. It is also important not to take other people’s medicines to treat the infection, as it can make it more difficult to treat the infection. Viral diseases, however, can not be cured, and in these sexually transmitted diseases one can only keep the symptoms at bay with medication. It is also possible to prevent some of them before infection occurs with a vaccine, and today only Hepatitis B and HPV can be prevented with a vaccine. These do not help if you are already infected with the disease.
Multiple medications are being used at the same time in the treatment of HIV
There is no curative treatment for HIV, and therefore all therapy will focus on keeping the HIV virus at bay. Standard treatment for HIV is antiretroviral medication, and it is common practice to use at least three medicines at the same time to prevent the virus from developing resistance to one of the drugs. Today there is an ongoing debate about when antiretroviral therapy should start, and some doctors believe it should start early in order to control the HIV virus. On the other hand, they argue that it is better to wait, as the drugs have some unfortunate side effects and that resistance can develop. Talk to your doctor about what time in the course of the disease it is best to start the antiretroviral treatment. It is nevertheless important that you practice safe sex with a condom because it is still contagious even if you have a good effect of treatment. One should also encourage its sexual partner to take an HIV quickest on a regular basis so that possible infection is detected early in the process.
Antibiotics are standard treatments for chlamydia and gonorrhea
Chlamydia and gonorrhea are bacterial genital diseases that are being treated with antibiotics, and you should start treatment as soon as possible if you get a positive outcome of a chlamydia test taken at home, even if you have no noticeable signs or symptoms of active disease. Your sex partners should also receive treatment, even if there are no complaints. Some strains of gonore have become resistant to the common types of antibiotics, so you may have to use other classes of antibiotics to fight the bacteria. Be sure your partner also gets treatment, or former partners (if less than 6 months since you had sexual intercourse). You should also take a new test after 3 months to ensure that the bacterium has left the body completely, even if your partner has recovered completely. If you do not receive treatment for gonorrhea and chlamydia, serious complications in the form of pelvic inflammation, bite inflammation and infertility are at risk.
Syfilis has a relatively simple and quick treatment
Syphilis is usually treated with penicillin, and early treatment is essential to prevent the bacterium from spreading around the body and causing harm.
Treatment for genital herpes and control of eruptions
Have you first had genital herpes, the virus will be in your body for life. After the first eruption, the herpes virus will flare up several times a year, but the duration can be lowered over time. Antiviral medicine can help reduce the duration and severity of the outbreaks. If you have frequent outbreaks of herpes, you may need a different type of treatment, where you receive medicines daily.
HPV and genital warts
There is no standard treatment for genital warts, and most genital warts will disappear without by themselves. This often means that you get rid of the virus, but often you will become a permanent carrier of the virus and at risk of infection. If you apply for treatment, it will typically be freezing the warts or by applying medical cream directly. Surgical intervention may be required if these forms of treatment do not work, but the risk of the genital warts coming back is high.
Treatment of Hepatitis B
The goal of treating Hepatitis B is to prevent viruses from damaging the liver. There are several medicines used for hepatitis, but if you get severe liver damage, liver transplantation may be relevant.
Trichonomas vaginalis
This is an infection caused by a parasite, and standard treatment is with a type of antibiotic called metronidazole. This treatment has a success rate of around 90%. The medicine is taken orally, but women in the first three months of a pregnancy risk the drug to harm the fetus, and it is preferred that this group of patients receive local treatment in the form of a cream or a pill. If this does not produce any effect, it may be appropriate for metronidazole in pill form in the second or third trimester.