Syphilis is known to be a disease caused by the bronchial spleen, a sexually transmitted disease, or by the mother to the fetus.
Syphilis damage on the pregnant woman
Syphilis transmission
This disease is transmitted from mother to fetus in two ways:
- Move through blood circulation: from the mother to the placenta, then to the fetus.
- Direct transmission during childbirth. Bacteria pass from ulcers that infect the reproductive system of the carrier and then to the fetus.
Early congenital syphilis
- Symptoms of this disease appear before the age of two years.
- It is similar to the secondary stage of syphilis; it appears as a rash with the sloughing of the surface area of the skin, in the palm of the hands, feet, and the surrounding skin of the anus and mouth
- This disease can cause bone imbalance, enlargement of the spleen and liver, yellowing, enlargement of the lymph nodes, poor blood, and neurodegeneration.
- This disease may cause inflammation in the kidneys, and a lack of platelets resulting in bleeding under the skin.
Late congenital syphilis
- Symptoms of the disease appear after the age of two years.
- This disease causes bone dysfunction; such as the occurrence of protrusion in the front area of the head, the reduction and destruction of the nasal bridge, and the appearance of the horse saddle (saddle nose)
- This disease causes interstitial keratitis, loss of sensory neuropathy, inflammation of the joints of the knee and swelling of the knee (clutton joints), and deformation of the teeth in the form of protrusions in the cutters and called Hutchinson incisors,
- This causes syphilis, neuropathy and forms pigments.