34 articles
Most adults clear hepatitis B themselves. If the virus stays, treatment suppresses it well, though that is not the same...
What the hepatitis B vaccination does, how long it protects, and how a blood test shows whether it worked for you.
LGV is an aggressive chlamydia variant that needs a longer course of treatment. Read why a standard test does not see th...
Herpes around the anus is often mistaken for a fissure or haemorrhoids. Read how to tell them apart, which test works he...
Anal itching usually is not an STI. Read the causes, why night-time itching means something else, and when getting check...
An STI in your anus needs a different sample than a genital test. Read which STIs occur there, which test each one needs...
Anal chlamydia usually causes no symptoms and does not show up in a urine test. Read how it is detected and what a posit...
Proctitis is an inflammation of the rectum. Read which symptoms fit, how to tell an STI cause from a bowel cause, and wh...
A throat STI usually goes unnoticed. Read why a throat infection often runs without symptoms, how you still pass it on,...
Testing for a throat STI needs a throat swab, not urine or blood. Read how a swab works, why urine or blood skips your t...
From kissing alone you rarely get an STI. Read per STI whether transmission through kissing is possible, from herpes and...
You almost never notice chlamydia in the throat. Read which symptoms sometimes go with it, how you catch it, how a throa...