When and how to test for STIs, and what symptoms mean.
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Most prostatitis is not caused by a bacterium, and only sometimes by an STI. Read the four categories and when an STI te...
Epididymitis brings pain and swelling on one side of the scrotum. Read when it is urgent, when an STI can be the cause,...
Endometritis follows childbirth or a procedure, or an STI that has moved up past the cervix. Read how the timing of your...
Salpingitis often runs without clear symptoms while scar tissue is quietly forming. Read how to recognise it and what it...
Pelvic inflammatory disease usually starts with a chlamydia or gonorrhoea found too late. Read how to recognise it, when...
In men urethritis often brings discharge and burning urination. Read which causes sit behind it and what to do when the...
Urethritis often comes from chlamydia or gonorrhoea, but not always. Read which causes are in play and which ones a stan...
Gardnerella vaginalis often shows up in a lab result with no explanation. It is not an STI, but the bacterium that takes...
Thin greyish white discharge with a fishy smell is the classic picture. We explain what each symptom suggests, what it f...
Three causes of changed discharge that look alike, but only one is an STI. We compare smell, colour, itch and acidity, a...
A throat STI usually goes unnoticed. Read why a throat infection often runs without symptoms, how you still pass it on,...
From kissing alone you rarely get an STI. Read per STI whether transmission through kissing is possible, from herpes and...