In clinic, we often encounter some male patients who have a history of unclean sex and come to the hospital for examination because they are worried that they may get a sexually transmitted disease. Although he himself has no condyloma, his spouse has a lot of condyloma. A wife who is very loyal and virtuous to her husband feels uncomfortable in her vulva and goes to the hospital for examination and finds that she has condyloma acuminatum. The source of infection is her husband, but the husband's examination is normal. Sometimes they don't understand these situations, and some husbands even think that their wives are unfaithful to them, but they are actually the "culprit".
First of all, we need to understand what genital warts are and how they develop and change. Genital warts are more common in sexually active young and middle-aged men and women. Its pathogen is a virus called human papillomavirus (HPV). After the patient is infected, there is a certain incubation period, just like other sexually transmitted diseases such as syphilis and gonorrhea. The length of the incubation period varies from person to person and the degree of infection. After infection with human papillomavirus (HPV), HPV passes through the squamous epithelial cells of the skin or mucous membranes, multiplies in large numbers in the nucleus, produces a large number of mature virus particles, causes abnormal cell proliferation, and manifests as genital warts. It usually takes 3 weeks to 8 months from infection with human papillomavirus to the development of visible genital warts, with an average of 3 months. The virus can remain latent in the local area for a long time without causing disease. When the body's resistance decreases, the virus will multiply in large numbers and cause disease.
