by the way, how to know that our partner is free from STD? I mean beside checking with the medical?

Check for synptom?

I don't think so. The person might be a carrier and yet does not display the symptoms until later.

Yep, looking for signs of infection doesnt work. For example: a person with aids taking modern medications would look like everyone else, and be in relative good health.

LOL..You cannot check whether the person is clean or not via physical examinations itself since it depends totally on the stages of the manifestation of the disease.

Like wise with condom, it can reduce the risk but there's also a few percentage of risks which includes if there's any minor cuts/injury from oral sex.

I have patients whom the wife has been "playing" around and the husband did not know until his wife was pregnant and a mandatory STD test was taken proven to be positive for herpes infection. The fetal life was in danger, the first thing that came to our mind was the husband's "fault" but when we did the test on him, the results came back to be negative. So how sure are u along the road of marrige that such things could not happen?

This post has been edited by hamster9: Oct 14 2006, 10:42 AM

there is no safest way to have sex ,but use condom if still hassitate about someone status , just remember that prevent is better than cure , and there is no cure for hiv/aids , we still have to practice safe sex like mastubation or use condom , but still can get infected ,because if you practice safe sex use condom ,how can you ejaculate and have a baby

I've one question to ask though - my cousin just found out that she's 2 months pregnant and during a recent trip to a clinic, the doctor said she had contracted VD ( I don't remember the name of it ).

She's seeking a 2nd opinion now and I was wondering, would it harm her foetus? The VD, I mean. I haven't ask her about it because I'm afraid of freaking her out.

VD as in venereal diease?
i thought that was just another way of saying STD (sexually transmitted diease)

Ya, I meant, the doctor told her that she contracted a STD. She told me the name of the STD, but I don't remember what it's called. Herpes? Hermes?

google it
there's plenty of info on the net

http://familydoctor.org/091.xml

according to this site there's a chance of it spreading to her child

edit: -
i feel sorry for ur cousin

This post has been edited by nezzy: Dec 11 2006, 09:05 PM

Oh My God.

Thanks for the link Nezzy. I'll call her later.

No problem

hopefully she'll be ok

speaking of STDs, i have found this website and i have read about it. you might want to check it out.

walau make me scare

STDs can kill you... the most common one is getting HIV/AIDS

follow the link i gave and read about it

may i know if aids can be transmitted by touching hand?

No. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aids

They really should teach these kinds of things in school.

HIV and AIDS aren't really detectable STDs.

it may vary from individual and time. sometime one may not know he or she has contracted HIV/AIDS even after a few years.

this webpage here can tell you a little more about the common STDs on how they can be transmitted and some general details about them

http://www.ruthinking.co.uk/help/sti.aspx

depends la. Usually the doctor will give her antibiotics jab la (but not most of the time since the doctor need to further examine the mother again)

no sex? i think it is quite imposible la.. i think the safest is to make sure your partner do not carry any STD.