Treatments - Specific dermatology
Dermato-venereology
Definition
Transmission of diseases of viral, bacterial or parasitic origin through sexual contact, resulting in mucocutaneous lesions in addition to any general lesions.
What is the difference with gynaecology?
The difference lies in the fact that the lesions are visible and therefore affect the skin and semi-mucous membranes of the external genitalia.
Particular pathologies?
There are several diseases that can be cited in order of frequency:
- Condylomata acuminata or venereal vegetations: lesions of viral origin with the appearance of a cock's crest. There are several treatments (Aldara, Podophyllotoxin, liquid nitrogen and laser, etc.).
- Genital herpes: a lesion also of viral origin that can give multiple, erosive and painful lesions during the primary infection and during recurrences. Recurrent herpes is usually limited to a red plaque covered with small erosions.
- Chlamydia (bacterial infection): similar to viruses that cause urethritis in men and vaginitis in women, the disease is usually treated with tetracycline antibiotics.
- AIDS: also a viral disease that can lead to skin manifestations such as infectious dermatitis, seborrhoeic dermatitis, pruritus, etc.
- Trichomonas vaginalis of parasitic origin: giving rise to sub-acute vulvovaginitis in women and usually asymptomatic in men. Usually treated with Flagyl or Fasigyn.
- Gonorrhoea and syphilis have regressed considerably in our regions but respond well to specific treatments.
