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STI symptoms are often vague or absent. Recognise the signs in men and women, see which complaint fits which STI, and know when a check is sensible.
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...
HPV is an STI, but no STI test finds it. Read why that is, what each test actually measures, and what you can do with a...
You do not only get anal warts from anal sex. Read how to tell them apart from haemorrhoids, and what an STI test can an...
Vaginal warts come from low-risk HPV. The cervical smear looks for high-risk HPV, so it does not find them. Read what th...
Genital warts on the penis often sit on the shaft, the glans or the foreskin. There is no routine HPV test for men. Here...
Genital herpes cannot be cured, but it can be managed well. Read what antivirals realistically achieve, what they cannot...