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SYPHILIS – SYMPTOMS

Posted under Men's Health-Erectile Dysfunction by admin

When a man is infected, 1000 or more of the tiny organisms enter his body through an invisible break in the pink surface of the mucous membrane of his penis. Within 30 minutes of being infected, the organism has spread to the lymph glands in his groins, where they are held up for a short time. They then invade his bloodstream and are carried throughout his body.

The organisms multiply at a tremendous rate, doubling every 30 hours, so that by three weeks after being infected, at least 10,000 million treponemes are circulating through his body, and during this time he has few or no symptoms to show that he has been infected.

However, the organisms do not have it all their own way. The Treponema pallidum has a fatty shell but, inside, it contains protein. When a ‘foreign’ protein is injected into, or inoculated into, the body (as is the case of infection by syphilis), the body reacts. The foreign protein stimulates certain blood cells to multiply, and these cells are sensitized to the particular protein, so that should a further infection occur, they mobilize to attack the invader at its point of entry, rather in the way in which a country attacked by a foreign invader tries to immobilize the invading army on the beaches. Unfortunately, in the first, or primary, infection by syphilis the body’s defences are inadequate, and the treponemes are not contained, so that they get into the bloodstream and multiply rapidly.