Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/DF_BqxIPSwa/Those in the hot-and-heavy dating scene should know that post-exposure prophylaxis with the antibiotic doxycycline, called, Doxy-PEP, cuts the STD incidence rates by 70-80%.   Infectious disease investigators in Boston and San Francisco studied data from 11,551 participants mean age 40 and 95% male with a high risk for contracting sexually transmitted disease.The Doxy-PEP cut the risk of a chlamydia infection by 79% and the risk of syphilis by 80%, but the risk of gonorrhea by only 12%.  The Doxy-PEP failed to better protect against gonorrhea due to causative bacterial resistance to the antibiotic.While Doxy-PEP is currently highly effective, that could rapidly change.  Antibiotic resistance to the prevalent bacteria that cause these diseases could increase at any time.https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2828994#std #chlamydia #syphilis #gonorrhea