Human Papillomavirus
Disease information
Human Papillomavirus
The
infection
by the virus of papiloma human is very
common
and the number of carrying people
has
increased alarmingly because most of the people they do not present / display visible symptoms, does not feel bad, nor
has
annoyances and the group of greater risk is the smaller women of 20 years than they have
sexual
relations.
This
infection
is caused by papilomavirus, that is
a
microorganism that remains in latency in the body and when it
has
been developed and it attacked for of very violent form.
These virus
has
the capacity to mutar constantly, which does in addition to dangerous, very difficult to control. Than 100 types the more identified, they have been classified by the place of the body in which they cause its injuries and more or less half of them is
transmitted
sexually
.
The virus of papiloma human (VPH) is cause of one of the most
common
diseases
that they are
transmitted
sexually
, condiloma acuminado, also known like warts in the penis or venereal warts, those that appear mainly in the genitals, the anus or near them or in the mouth, as much of men as of women. The injuries appear with more severity in people than they have
vaginal
secretion, little personal hygiene or who they are pregnant women, which can also cause
a
problem
in the baby.
The virus
has
a
period
of incubation that goes of few weeks to several months after I
infect
and since there are no evident symptoms of the
infection
, it is to say is asintomática, the danger of I
infect
and extension is very great, in addition of which an enormous percentage of
cervical
cancers
has
been associated with certain types of papilomavirus.
Papilomavirus is managed to identify until they appear the external warts or when practicing
a
routine examination of Papanicolaou in the women when or there is some changes in the neck of the uterus or matrix.
One of the most severe
problems
, is than these virus is related to the
genital
cancer
, as much of women as of men and the same form that with other caused
diseases
of
sexual
transmission mainly by virus, are no evident symptoms nor injuries, which causes that the
infection
is scattered to other people easily.
Condilomas acuminados or venereal warts is produced by some types of VPH and they are
transmitted
by I
infect
sexual
. In the woman condilomas appears in the lips vulvares,
vagina
,
uterine
neck or near the anus. In the man they appear in the penis and escroto and around the anus if homosexual relations are had. The evolution of the injuries is unforseeable: they can disappear, grow or remain stable.
It is pronounced in wart form in the external part and commits of the
vagina
, mainly in the lips and the neck of the uterus. Often the affected woman presents / displays
chronic
flow that normally does not respond to the conventional treatments.
The diagnosis becomes by means of
a
cytology or colposcopía and is discovered during the accomplishment of the analysis of papanicoau.
It is
transmitted
by coital
contact
with an affected person and are circumstances that favor it like the
pregnancy
, the use of contraceptive pills, the
diabetes
, some medicines and the loss of defenses. If it is in acute phase, during the
pregnancy
, the fetus it can be infected.
For their treatment chemical substances are applied or the warts by electrocauterización are extirpated, crioterapia or laser.
In spite of being considered like
a
benign
infection
, in some certain women virus is related to
cancer
of uterus neck.
IMPORTANT the content of this note is informative and it does not replace the medical diagnosis, reason why we do not become people in
charge
on its use.
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