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Trichomoniasis

Why treat my partner without testing him?

He has been given treatment on the basis of my result alone. That seems unscientific.

pocket_watch 5 months ago
NoteMember experience, not medical advice. Symptoms overlap between infections and only a test can tell them apart.

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northwindow 5 months ago

Testing in men is less sensitive than in women, so a negative result in him would not be reliable enough to act on. Treating known contacts is the standard approach for that reason.

It is pragmatic rather than unscientific: the cost of treating someone who turns out not to have it is low, and the cost of missing it is you being reinfected.

back_porch 5 months ago

He should still be offered a full screen even if the trich is treated presumptively. Contact treatment for one thing is not a substitute for testing for everything else.

night_bus 5 months ago

The same logic applies across most of this board. Contacts of gonorrhoea and chlamydia are frequently treated without waiting for their own result.

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