Genital Warts and Men

Genital human papillomavirus (HPV) is one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases there is. With almost more than 50% of sexually active adults contracting it. Out of the 100 different strains of HPV, tere are more than 40 types of HPV that can be passed on during sex. These types can cause rashes, warts or bumps on the genital areas of men, including the skin on and around the penis or anus.

Symptoms

Most men who get HPV (of any type) never develop any symptoms or health problems. But some types of HPV can cause genital warts. Other types can cause penile cancer or anal cancer. The types of HPV that can cause genital warts are not the same as the types that can cause penile or anal cancer.

Signs of genital warts:

• One or more growths on the penis, testicles, groin, thighs, or anus.
• Warts may be raised, flat, or cauliflower-shaped. They usually do not hurt.
• Warts may appear within weeks or months after sexual contact with an infected person.

Complications

• Men who get HPV have a higher incidence of penile and anal cancer
• Most times there are no signs or symptoms.
• When there are symptoms they can often clean up on their own within weeks or months.
• Anal bleeding, pain, itching, or discharge.
• Swollen lymph nodes in the anal or groin area.
• Changes in bowel habits or the shape of your stool.

Transmission

HPV is passed on through genital contact –most often during vaginal and anal sex. Since HPV usually causes no symptoms, most men and women can get HPV – and pass it on - without realizing it.

Tests

There is no general test for men for HPV other than a visual inspection, which isn't foolproof as normal skin can be mistaken as a wart. For gay or bisexual men anal pap smears are recommended to test the tissue. HPV usually goes away on its own, without causing health problems or complications, but prolonged infections with particular strains can increase likelihood of anal or penile cancers.

Treatment

There is no treatment or cure for HPV. But there are ways to treat the genital warts and other helath probelms caused by it.

Genital warts can be treated with medicine, removed surgically, or frozen off. Some of these treatments involve a visit to the doctor. Others can be done at home by the patient himself. Warts may come back within a few months after treatment so a few treatments may be necessary. In some cases less than 20% the genital warts go away and never return.

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Prevention

Because HPV is so common and usually invisible, the only sure way to prevent it is not to have sex. Even people with only one lifetime sex partner can get HPV, if their partner was infected with HPV. Condoms (used all the time and the right way) may lower your chances of passing HPV to a partner or developing HPV-related diseases. But HPV can infect areas that are not covered by a condom—so condoms may not fully protect against HPV.

Vaccine

There may soon be a new way for boys and young men to protect themselves from HPV. Merck, the manufacturer of Gardasil (the drug used to vaccinate young women against cervical cancer) may get FDA approval to also use this drug as a vaccine against genital warts in males who are from 9 to 26 years of age.  
 

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