Sexual Health✨ Flashcards
Thrush treatment
Topical clotrimazole OR miconazole OR Fluconazole
Typical presentation of thrush
Itching, burning, thick ‘cottage cheese like’ discharge
Gonorrhoea treatment
Ceftriaxone 1g IM
Chlamydia treatment
Doxycycline 100mg orally BD for 7 days
Symptomatic BV treatment in pregnancy
Oral metronidazole 5-7 days
Trichomonas vaginalis treatment
Oral metronidazole
Presentation of trichomonas
Foul-smelling, yellow-green frothy discharge and vulvovaginal erythema
What type of bacteria is Neisseria gonorrhoeae?
Gram negative intracellular diplococci
Typical causative organism for BV
Gardnerella vaginalis
What is the Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction?
Transient, self-limiting response within 24 hrs after antibiotic treatment for syphilis (IM BenPen)
Standard testing to diagnosis HIV
P24 antigen, antibody testing, and viral load
On the day - 4 weeks - 3 months
What do ‘clue cells’ suggest?
BV
HIV associated respiratory illness
Pneumocystitis jirovecii pneumonia
When does early latent syphilis occur?
Within 1st year after infection, after resolution of primary symptoms
It is asymptomatic
Syphilis organism name
Treponemal Pallidum
