How is HPV Transmitted and What are the Symptoms and How You get Tested for HPV?
First of all let us be clear that HPV and HIV are not the same although both are generally sexually transmitted infections. HPV is less of an evil than HIV.
So what is HPV?
HPV stands for Human papillomavirus. There are more than 60 types of HPV. They can affect different skin parts of the body. Luckily HPV infection is not a life threatening infection.
Interestingly body’s own immune system can get rid of HPV but it may take couple of years for HPV to disappear naturally.
The only dangerous consequence of getting infected with HPV in some women is that it can lead to cervical cancer. Otherwise another difficulty is faced by both men and women when they get throat warts which, affects their voice- the condition is called recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP)
Though most of the HPV infections are sexually transmitted, it is rare that an infected mother infect her newborn baby during the delivery.
Avoid the following Ways to get HPV infection!
HPV is very contagious so avoid getting skin to skin contact with individuals. With sexual contact or by simply touching a wart you can get HPV. You will not know it at-least for 3 months that you have really got infected with HPV as there are no symptoms during this period. Later on you might or might not see warts on your skin.
When the infected area of your skin remains totally normal even after the infection the condition is called latent or inactive infection.
Even under latent infection you may pass on HPV to others. Unfortunately there are no approved tests for diagnosing HPV infection. So the only way you usually get to know is by physically seeing the warts appearing on your skin.
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