HPV positive?
Can’t live any longer… … …
If HPV is tested positive, the first thing you think about is probably condyloma acuminatum, cervical cancer and penis cancer.
I have to say that HPV is indeed a Jianghu expert, but its strength is not that it is deadly once it appears, but that as long as it appears, what can scare off people without doing anything.
This mysterious temperament is really maddening. Does HPV positive mean what? Is it really so close to venereal diseases and cancer?
HPV is discolored by what?
HPV, the Chinese name human papillomavirus (Human Papillomavirus), is a DNA virus, human is its only natural host. To put it bluntly, it only infects people, and only infects human skin and mucous membrane, and does not enter the blood.
At present, more than 100 HPV subtypes have been found.
The reason why HPV makes people change color is that almost all (> 99%) cervical cancer are caused by HPV infection, of which types 16 and 18 account for about 70%. All condyloma acuminatum is also caused by HPV infection, of which about 75% are caused by HPV types 6 and 11.
Is HPV infection related to sex?
In fact, HPV can change the color of people’s talk and is also related to its transmission route.
HPV is mainly transmitted through direct contact with skin or mucous membrane, including various forms of sexual contact. Yes, anal sex and oral sex are no exception. After starting sex, the infection rate of HPV will greatly increase, and the younger the first sexual intercourse age, the more sexual partners, the higher the infection rate of HPV.
At this time, some people may want to ask, what about the condom? Can it be avoided?
Although some studies have found that the use of condoms can slightly reduce the chance of women contracting HPV, small condoms cannot cover all the skin in their private parts, so their resistance to HPV is extremely limited.
Infected with HPV, is condyloma acuminatum or cervical cancer?
No.
In fact, about 70% ~ 80% of people have had HPV infection in their whole lives (think about what kind of picture this is), but often there are no symptoms.
Most HPV infections are transient and our bodies can remove the virus by themselves, so the most common outcome of HPV infection is that about 70% of HPV infections will subside within one year and 90% will subside within two years.
The duration of this regression is mainly determined by the subtype of HPV, which takes 5-6 months for low-risk HPV and 8-24 months for high-risk HPV.
Only a very small number of HPV infections will eventually develop into diseases, for example, about 1% of HPV infections will develop into condyloma acuminatum, and only long-term (14 months or more) continuous infection will eventually lead to cervical cancer, etc.
So at this time, you also understand that HPV positive, condyloma acuminatum and cervical cancer are three completely different concepts. Even if HPV positive is found, specific problems should be analyzed.
What should I do if I find HPV positive?
First of all, don’t think it’s over.
1. Most do not require treatment
Most HPV will be eradicated by the human immune system, and there is no specific drug to deal with HPV at present. Therefore, it is not necessary to treat the situation that HPV is generally positive and does not cause related diseases (warts, cervical lesions, cervical cancer, etc.).
At this time, the most important thing to do is to eat well, sleep well, exercise well, enhance immunity, so that the body can fully fire and clean up all HPV in the body.
Never, never believe that what’s ancestral secret recipe can help to turn yin or cure. I don’t know whether there is what in the secret recipe, but there must be no special ingredient [medicine to cure disease].
2. Do a good job in screening and intervene in time.
Of course, this is not to say that all HPV positives, we all choose to let them die of their own accord, and our hearts cannot be so big.
In the population infected with high-risk HPV, it is true that 5% ~ 10% of women will suffer from persistent infection. Generally speaking, cervical precancerous lesions will only occur if the persistent infection lasts for more than 14 months or more.
Precancerous lesion is not cancer, it is only a stage of transition from benign disease to malignant disease. Moreover, the occurrence of cervical precancerous lesions does not necessarily lead to cervical cancer, which may take 10-15 years to develop.
During this period, as long as you have mastered the accurate screening method (cervical cancer screening should start at the age of 21, do you know? ), time is enough for us to check and monitor, and timely intervention, to achieve the purpose of preventing cervical cancer.
How to prevent HPV infection?
HPV vaccination is an effective way to reduce HPV infection, but unfortunately, many people are doomed to have passed the good age for vaccination. Generally speaking, pay attention to personal life in life and don’t be too greedy about sexual partners. HPV does not mean that infection can be infected.