Some people say that after a month they are permanent but I thought if you use antibiotics you can get rid of it, no? Obviously herpes is permenant but the run of the mill stds always imagined are curable, no?
it depends what you're talking about. with chlaymidia you can technically cure it but if you leave it for too long you could end up not being able to have children and what not. i'm not too smart in the STD area though, better off asking someone else.
I feel compelled to point out that one doesn't get to pick which STD one catches. Avoiding all of them is my policy.
it completely depends on which std's your talking about, theres dozens at least, many can be cured others are permenant and a few ithink canbe cured in some cases but not all..best toalways just be safe & avoid them if you can
Evolve some mutant disease resistant genes and then you would be immune. eg. delta 32-. But that isn't a cure, if you have one.
The curable ones (bacterial infections, treated with antiboitics): Chlamydia Syphilis Gonorrhea Bacterial Vaginosis Pubic Lice (crabs) <---not bacterial, but treatable anyway The Incurable Ones: (viral infections, not always flare up but remain in your system) Herpes HIV Hepatitis Genital Warts
chalmydia is definitely treatable although it takes time i was unfortunate to catch it some years ago, underwent a course of antibiotics, and had to experience the "umbrella", which still brings tears to my eyes when i think about it dave
What makes you say this? Aren't many of them viruses? My understanding (from discussions of the "common cold") is that viruses mutate quickly enough that curing viruses is heighly unrealistic.
Despite the lethality of HIV/AIDS, susceptibility to HIV infection and progression to AIDS is rather variable. There are individuals who have been exposed to HIV multiple times but who either remain uninfected or if they are infected, progress more slowly to full-blown AIDS. Recent studies have shown that some of the variation in HIV resistance has a genetic component. HIV operates by subverting the immune system; therefore, it is logical that differences in the immune system may play a role in the genetic variation of resistance to HIV. Indeed, some HIV-resistant individuals possess different chemokine receptors than HIV-susceptible individuals. What's a chemokine receptor? First, let's discuss chemokines. Chemokines are molecular signals released by cells of the immune system that stimulate white blood cells to move to inflamed tissues. They are metaphoric "cries for help." The chemokines bind to receptors located on the white blood cells. Macrophages - those white blood cells that engulf foreign particles and are an early stage of defense - possess the chemokine receptor that is encoded by the gene CCR5. By subverting the normal function of this chemokine receptor, HIV is able to gain entry into macrophages. (See the HIV and AIDS unit.) Individuals that have lower expressions of this protein due to variants of the CCR5 gene have an increased resistance to HIV; their macrophages are metaphorically more cautious about the signals they respond to. The most obvious case of a "more cautious" CCR5 variant is the allele that has a deletion of thirty-two nucleotides. Individuals who are heterozygous for this variant, CCR5-delta32, have substantially increased resistance to HIV infection; if infected, progress to full-blown AIDS is much slower than normal. Individuals that are homozygous for CCR5-delta32 are virtually completely resistant to HIV. In European populations about twenty percent of individuals are heterozygotes, and one percent are homozygotes in some populations. In contrast, the allele is rare in the Asian populations and virtually absent in the African populations. Why is this deletion variant present in some populations in such high frequencies? HIV is, at most, a couple centuries old and, more likely, less than a hundred years old. That isn't sufficient time for natural selection to increase the frequency of a rare allele, such as is observed in the European populations. Furthermore, the selection pressures caused by HIV should be much higher in Africa than in Europe. It is also probable that the decreased receptivity to chemokines would be somewhat costly. Some biologists have suggested that the deletion allele could be a vestige of plague resistance. It may have led to increased survival during the Black Plague of the fourteenth century in Europe, and has had an unintended -- but welcome -- consequence of HIV resistance. The increased frequency of the variant in Europe would be consistent with that scenario. The environment, and in particular, disease has continued to exert strong pressures on human populations. Generally, we are unable to directly observe changes in species because these changes occur in time scales that exceed human lifespans. Yet, we may be able to detect small changes in allele frequencies that have occurred in populations due to epidemics
not trying to give you a hard time, Retro, just want to clarify for folks: only 4 strains of HPV can be vaccinated against, out of many more than 100 strains. getting the vaccination only covers the forms of HPV most commonly linked to cervical cancer, it does not keep one from picking up any of the many, many more variations. females, if at all possible get the vaccination to help significantly reduce your risk of cervical cancer. ----- yes, some forms of Hepatitis are curable. some are only treatable. ----- those forms of STIs that are permanent, are permanent. those that are not, are not, and do not become so after any length of time. however, they *can* lead to complications such as Pelvic Inflammatory Disease which can do serious damage to the reproductive organs (and others) and in the most extreme of cases (rare) threaten one's life. also, keep in mind that HPV and herpes are spread by skin contact and so can be transmitted by outercourse, manual and oral sex and be passed while using a condom... whether or not any symptoms are present. gonorrhea and chlamydia can also be spread orally in addition to genital contact.
Thats okay. I should have been more clear. I know it doesnt ptrotect against all strains. But ... at least if you get jabbed... yoiu wont fdie of cervical cancer related to hpv! either way, this is a major breakthough in the treatment and prevention of transmittable infections
