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Can syphilis be transmitted from hotel bathtubs?

Can syphilis be transmitted from hotel bathtubs?

2023-03-31 04:03:53

When we go out on business or travel, it is inevitable that we have to stay in a hotel. Some hotels will have bathtubs inside their high-end suites so that guests can soak in them and relieve their fatigue. But it is inevitable that the last guest who used it will not carry any infectious disease, such as venereal disease, so many people avoid going to use the hotel bathtub. So will the hotel bathtub infect syphilis?

1、Will the hotel bathtub transmit syphilis?
With the hotel bathtub is not infectious syphilis and other STDs. Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease, caused by syphilis spirochete infection, generally infected with syphilis carriers through sexual intercourse or blood contact may be infected, if you are more worried, you can not use the bathtub sitz bath, bath, direct shower is good, but pay attention to the slippery soles of the feet.

2、Will you get STD with hotel bathtub?
The possibility is relatively low. The vast majority of STDs are transmitted through sexual life or blood. The possibility of infection through indirect contact with hotel bathtubs and other objects is very small. Most STDs, such as mute spirochetes, HIV and Neisseria gonorrhoeae, have strict requirements for the environment of the pathogen. Once they leave the body, their viability is reduced and they easily lose their ability to infect. Also the water in the bathtub is flowing, which will further dilute the pathogens.

Usually large and medium-sized hotels, hotels are disinfected and sterilized, but if the hotel hotel bathtub is not completely disinfected, there is still a possibility of contracting skin diseases or some other diseases, it is recommended to shower as much as possible in the hotel.

3, STD patients touched things infectious?
General venereal disease with body fluids, blood, semen, or sexual contact transmission, other ways of life will not spread, not through contact with objects and infectious, and if the virus leaves the body, the virus will also die. So don’t worry about touching the STD patient touched things will be infected. But usually pay attention to personal hygiene and pay attention to good protection measures when having sex.