When and how to test for STIs, and what symptoms mean.
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A sore throat from an STI is rare, yet the throat is exactly the spot a normal test misses. Read how to tell a throat ST...
An oral or throat STI often goes unnoticed. Read which STIs can sit there, how to tell them apart, and what a throat swa...
Dry, flaky patches on the glans are rarely an STI. Often it is just skin. Read how to tell eczema, psoriasis and irritat...
When the foreskin joins an inflamed glans it is called balanoposthitis. Read why it happens there, which ointment a clin...
Yeast on the glans is candida, not an STI. Read how to recognise it, why it returns, and why white coating does not alwa...
With balanitis, treatment depends entirely on the cause. Read which options exist, who decides, and why guessing yoursel...
Which STIs are there? We list the nine most common STIs in the Netherlands, with how often each one occurs and how you c...
A red glans usually comes from irritation or candida, not from an STI. Where the redness sits often says more than the c...
An inflamed glans is usually not an STI. Read which causes exist, how to tell them apart, and what an STI test can and c...
Regret or doubt after a one-night stand? An STI check brings calm. Learn when testing is reliable, which test fits, and...
An STI check fits well with trying to conceive. Some STIs can affect fertility or a pregnancy. Learn which test makes se...
From a few days to weeks: how soon STI symptoms appear differs per STI. See the timeline and when a test becomes reliabl...