Congenital syphilis history and symptoms

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Symptoms

  • Symptoms in newborns may include:
  • Failure to gain weight or failure to thrive
  • Fever
  • Irritability
  • No bridge to nose (saddle nose)
  • Early rash - small blisters on the palms and soles
  • Later rash - copper-colored, flat or bumpy rash on the face, palms, and soles
  • Rash of the mouth, genitalia, and anus
  • Watery discharge from the nose
  • Symptoms in older infants and young children may include:
  • Abnormal notched and peg-shaped teeth, called Hutchinson teeth
  • Bone pain
  • Blindness
  • Clouding of the cornea
  • Decreased hearing or deafness
  • Gray, mucus-like patches on the anus and outer vagina
  • Joint swelling
  • Refusal to move a painful arm or leg
  • Saber shins (bone problem of the lower leg)
  • Scarring of the skin around the mouth, genitalia, and anus

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