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Avoiding STD’s: Promoting awareness in your teenager |
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To keep your troubled teenager safe from sexually transmitted diseases, it’s important for him/her to know what diseases he/she may acquire and how to prevent them. The following are some tips on the prevention of common sexually transmitted diseases which a sexually active teen may acquire if they are not aware or cautious: - In order to prevent your teen from Gonorrhea, he/she must refrain from intercourse with a person diagnosed with the disease until he/she is cured. The use of spermicide or condoms may only reduce the risk and can not prevent the disease 100%.
- In order to prevent your teen from the Crabs, he/she should not have close physical relations with an infected person.
- In order to prevent your teen from Genital Herpes, he/she must make sure to use condoms along with spermicide when engaging in sexual intercourse because transmission may occur even when a partner has no visible sores in between outbreaks. To prevent genital herpes, female condoms may prove to be even more efficient than male condoms because of the genital surface they cover.
- In order to prevent your teen from Genital Warts/ Human Papillomavirus (HPV), he/she should use barrier methods like the condom or diaphragm. But these methods only reduce the possibility of transfer because the disease is passed on from skin to skin contact. Many people are actually unaware that they have warts or the virus.
- In order to prevent your teen from Chlamydia, he/she must be certain that he/she and one’s partner are tested. In order to lessen the possibility of acquiring the disease, male or female condoms may be used along with spermicide when engaging in sexual acts.
- In order to prevent your teen from Hepatitis B, he/she may get a vaccine for the disease which is actually administered in three shots. This sexually transmitted disease is very contagious, so any intimate acts with someone suffering from the disease must be completely avoided. Barrier methods may lessen the possibility of transfer, but even kissing is risky.
- In order to prevent your teen from Syphilis, he/she may reduce the possibility of transfer by the use of barrier methods. After being diagnosed with the disease, the patient must be sure not to engage in any sexual acts until cured.
Knowledge is power. Promote awareness in your troubled teen in order for them to steer clear from possible sexually transmitted diseases such as these.
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