ENFERMEDADES DE TRANSMICION SEXUAL

SEXUAL CHOICES

*MAKE THE RIGHT ONE

The teen years are a time when you are forced to make big, far-reaching choices that demand great deal of thoght. And one of the most important decisions you will have to make is whether or not to become sexually involved. It is hard to know how to make the right choise because you are bombarded  by many messages from your parents, your friends, your boyfriend/girlfriend, t.v. movies, and even from your own body. And many of those signal may seem to say that sex is okay.

However the scary statistics on teen pregnancies, as well as health risks such as sexually trasmitted diseases, and emotional risks, make it clear that you need to get all the information you can to make the right choises.

*PREGNANC

Lost of teenagers become pregnant each year. And many of them are not married when they become pregnant. There is always a possibility of pregnancy with sexual  intercourse. Many unmarried couples do not use any method of birth control. And all birth control methods have some level of failure. If pregnancy does occur, it can have serious effects on the lives of the teenagers and those close to them.

Studies show that teenage mothers and fathers often drop out of school. The demands of being a parent and the need os money make it difficult for them to continue their education. Thus, they face a greater risk of unemployment.

Teen girls who marry becouse of prgnancy are three times more likely to and up divorced than women who walt until their 20s to have children. Moreover teenage parents are more likely to abouse their children than parents who are older.

Teenage pregnancy presents other problems as well. Babies boirn to teenagers are more likely to be premature than are babies born to women  in their twenties.

And premature babies are more likely to suffer from birth injuries and children illnesses than are other babies.

*SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES

Unfortunately, the problems of teen pregnacy are only the beginning of the problems associated with sexual involvement: Sexually trasmitted diseases (STDs) are another concer. Thaese diseases are a major health problem.There is not way to be sure whether a person does or doesn´t have a sexuallytrasmitted disease without medical tests.

*ACQUIREDIMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME (AIDS)

Originally thoght to be a disease connected wiht homosexual men or drug addicts, AIDS has now been foud in heterosexual men and womwen and the number of reported cases in the world is rising alarmingly it´s a fatal disease, and as yet, there is not cure. But since it´s most often contractend though sexual cantact, it can be prevented.

*HERPES

Herpes is one os the most serious STDs. At the present time there is no cure; control is the best that can be hoped for. Herpes is coused by a virus that may erupt frequently, but never leaves the body. The potential deangers of this disease include cervical cancer in women, or death or danage to an infantit  during the birthing process.

*SYPHILIS AND GONORRHEA

syphilis and gonorrehea are caused by a bacterial infection.  They are treatable with amtibiotics if caught early enough, but are very dangerous. Left untreared, both of these diseases can cause serious, life- threaening conditions, as well as infertility.

*EMOTIONAL RISKS

sexual intercourse without marriage can lead to strong feelings such as guilt, anxiety or fear.

The feelings of guilt come when the person feels he or she has violanted his or her own values or the values of others whose opinions are important, such as parentes.

Many teens suffer serious long-term depression due todecisions they had to make because of pregnancy. Other teens suffer from anxiety that that stems from fear of getting pregnant or contracting STDs.

Other feelings involve the emotions that arise when a relationship is seriously affected by having sex. After sexual intercourse, some relationships change for the worse and even may end. There can be feelings of intense disillusionment and betrayal as well.

*THE CHOICE

Making the choice about whether or not to become sexually involved is not as difficult as it seems. You need to develop your own sexual responsibility. A sexually responsible person is one whose sexual behavior is consistent whith his or her own ideas of what is right. A sexually responsible person acts out of both self- respect and respect for other people. Such a person considers his or her own feelings and needs. The person also considers and tries to understand the feelings and needs of others. A sexually responsible person behaves in positive and constructive ways not in ways that exploit and hurt.

*CHANCRE

Sexually transmitted diseases are very common. But we can protect ourselves and our partners of STDs such as chancroid. An important step towards this is to learn more about the chancre.

Here are some of the most common questions that people ask about the chancre. We hope that the answers will be useful if you think you have canker, if you have been diagnosed with this disease or simply feel curiosidad.Un chancre (Latin cancer, crab) is a painless primary lesion of syphilis, which appears in place entry of infection. It appears as a small papule or erosion, and becomes a rounded or oval, firm and slightly elevated lesion with an eroded surface that ejects a serous fluid and results in a painless and without fluctuation strong regional lymphadenopathy (bubo) curing without leaving traces.

The term describes lymphadenopathy swelling of the lymph nodes - bean-shaped organs found in the underarm, groin, neck, chest and abdomen, that act as filters for the lymph fluid as it circulates through the body. Lymphadenopathy can occur in one region of the body such as the neck, or can be generalized, ie, the size of the lymph nodes in various regions increases. The cervical lymph nodes found in the neck are the most common site of lymphadenopathy.

It is also known as the painless chancre lesion caused by biting flies of the genus Glossina called Tsetse fly, which is vector of African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness.