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A 19-year-old female asked:
How many days for the secondary syphilis rash to go away?
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Dr. Hunter Handsfieldanswered
Infectious Disease 55 years experience
Usually 5-10 days: The rash sometimes becomes more prominent in the first 1-2 days after penicillin injection, but then improves rapidly. It should be clearly better in 3-4 days, mostly gone by a week, and completely gone by 10 days or so. See your doctor if you remain concerned about it.
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A 19-year-old female asked:
Can I get syphilis by touching the rash of the person with secondary syphilis rash?
Dr. Hunter Handsfieldanswered
Infectious Disease 55 years experience
No risk, no worries: Syphilis is an STD. Although it can be transmitted from infected mothers to their unborn babies. in adults it is only transmitted by sex. Touching is ... Read More
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A 30-year-old male asked:
If a syphilitic rash occurres, its in secondary syphilis, right? so if I am worried my rash might be syphilis and testing is negative I can be sure it is not, since false-negative tests occur in primary but not secondary syphilis?
Dr. Jay Parkanswered
Pediatrics 52 years experience
Your hypothesis are not entirely true. False negative test on nontreponemal tests, e.g., VDRL or RPR test can still occur in individuals with high co... Read More
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A member asked:
If i think i got syphilis from dancing with my room mate when he had the secondary rash on his palms, how soon can I be tested?
Dr. Larry Lutwickanswered
Infectious Disease 51 years experience
How do you know?: Although secondary syphilis is a disseminated infection with treponema pallidum in the skin and mucous membrane lesions, the mucous patches in the mou... Read More
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A 36-year-old female asked:
Is the rash of secondary syphilis contagious? In the answers of the doctors on this page, they write different information. I'm primarily thinking of the palms, since they are the most exposed part od body. Can direct contact with rash spread Syp.?
Dr. James Fergusonanswered
Pediatrics 48 years experience
No.
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A 30-year-old male asked:
Is that possible that syphilis rash on hand only last for 2 day and then go? i read that secondary syphilis rash can stay for a week, i had rapid syphilis and negative?
Dr. Jay Parkanswered
Pediatrics 52 years experience
Some basics:
The rash of secondary syphilis spread widely often involving palms and soles and presents as pink to red slightly scaly spot or bump. The... Read More
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