Treatments for Syphilis

Treatment list for Syphilis: The list of treatments mentioned in various sources for Syphilis includes the following list. Always seek professional medical advice about any treatment or change in treatment plans.

• Penicillin
• Injected penicillin
• Other antibiotics - if allergic to penicillin
• Repetition of blood tests - to ensure treatment successful; see tests for syphilis

Treatments of Syphilis discussion: Syphilis usually is treated with penicillin, administered by injection. Other antibiotics can be used for patients allergic to penicillin. A person usually can no longer transmit syphilis 24 hours after beginning therapy. Some people, however, do not respond to the usual doses of penicillin. Therefore, it is important that people being treated for syphilis have periodic blood tests to check that the infectious agent has been completely destroyed. Persons with neurosyphilis may need to be retested for up to two years after treatment. In all stages of syphilis, proper treatment will cure the disease, but in late syphilis, damage already done to body organs cannot be reversed. ¹

Syphilis is usually treated with penicillin or other antibiotics. In all stages of syphilis, proper treatment will cure the disease, but in late syphilis, damage already done to body organs cannot be reversed. ²

Footnotes:
1. excerpt from Syphilis, NIAID Fact Sheet: NIAID
2. excerpt from Syphilis: NWHIC

Last revision: June 18, 2003

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