Dementia: The sexual disease increasing your risk of the brain degenerative condition
Regarding symptoms and how the condition progresses, Dr Malu explained: “Within two to six months after getting exposed to syphilis (however, this can happen up to two years), syphilis spreads through the bloodstream and appears as a flu that is hard to shake off.
This is the “secondary” stage of syphilis.
“Weeks and months of fever, night sweats, poor appetite, weight loss, sore throat and skin rashes of many appearances.
“Unusual but serious symptoms can affect eyes (redness, floaters and reduced vision), ears (hearing impairment), brain (headaches, brain fog, double vision suggesting meningitis as well as mini-stroke and stroke), nerves (neuropathy) and heart (palpitations and leaky aortic heart valve).”
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