STD Lab tests, what are the most common tests?

November 29, 2022 Helal Medical

There are a wide variety of STD Lab tests available now in the market. STD refers too sexually transmitted disease. What is STD? Sexually transmitted disease (STD, or STI) is an infection that spreads by sexual activity and close skin-to-skin contact. Also, it can spread by other means like contaminated blood or from mothers with STD infection to her baby. The common causes of STDs are bacteria, viruses, or parasites.

Prevalence of STDs

About 20 million new STD infections occur each year in the United States alone. Those are the persons did STD Lab tests, others are not in the records
Age prevalence: It is more common among adolescents and young adults, between the ages of 15 and 24 years.

Who should get STD Lab tests?

Many STDs cases are asymptomatic, or only experience mild symptoms. STDs often go without diagnosis due to no or minor symptoms. Only when the symptoms start getting worse, people seek medical help. Lack of timely testing is also due to the ongoing stigma and lack of open conversations surrounding these conditions. Testing is important to avoid spreading the infection and to get treatment as fast as possible. STDs infection can go away by its own, but some infections can lead to serious health complications. That is why, screening STDs Lab tests play important role in detection of cases and prevention of spread.

The following persons must get screening STD tests

Any sexually active and have multiple sexual partners
Any person who had unprotected sex.
Adults and adolescents: from 13 to 60 should be tested for HIV once a year.
Sexually active women should be tested for gonorrhea, chlamydia and HPV every year.
Pregnant women should be tested for syphilis, HIV, and hepatitis B. These tests are done among others, routinely, as pregnancy checkup.
Sexually active gay and bisexual men should be tested at least once yearly for HIV, syphilis, chlamydia, and gonorrhea.
Unsafe sex and injectable drug users must be tested frequently.
Besides the above, any person has to get an STD test if he is experiencing any of the following: painful urination, pain during sex, vaginal discharge or bleeding.

What are the Different Types of STD Lab tests?

The following are the most common tests to diagnose STD infection:

Blood tests: Blood tests can confirm the diagnosis of HIV, syphilis and viral Hepatitis.
Urine samples: urine sample can diagnose gonorrhea, candidiasis and some other STDS.
Fluid and discharge samples: In cases of genital sores, fluid and discharge from the sores can diagnose the type of infection.

Most STD lab tests check for one of the following conditions:

Chlamydia
Gonorrhea
HIV
Hepatitis B
Syphilis
Trichomoniasis
Candidiasis

SUNNARY

There are a wide variety of STD lab tests that you can do to confirm or exclude STD infection. It is important to the test, as soon as possible, once you suspect exposure to infection. Which test do you chose? This depends on which infection type you were exposed to. But it’s a better practice to do all STD lab tests available so a snot to miss any possible infection.

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