• immutable@lemmy.zip
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    In what scenario would a parent going “do not treat my teens STI in defiance of the treatment they are actively seeking” not be abuse and neglect.

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      No, you’re missing the point. Right now, teens can get tested with discretion and without notifying the parents or the tests being added to a medical file. This is so that teens don’t feel too scared of getting in trouble if they get tested, so they don’t and thus increase the risk of an outbreak, a far worse outcome than the fact that Chad and Tina did the hanky panky before marriage. This individual wants parents to be notified if their children are sexually active, bringing us back to square one.

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      Some parents might not want the doctor asking questions about where exactly the STD came from, if you know what I mean.

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        Yup. I remember my professor saying that if a 12 year-old comes positive for giardiasis, it’s from sexual assault.

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          giardiasis, is a parasitic infection from contaminated food or water? do you mean gonnorhea, i did look it up just in case, and its usually oral-anal route, or MSM(men sex with men)(i assume the penetrator gets the parasite from the recievers poop particles. seems quite difficult to get it for the Victim.

          there was a SVU episode where they had a little girl that was infected with gonnorhea, she was under 12 yo.

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            My memory is faulty, but I remember hearing that it’s not usually associated with vaginosis precisely because its route of infection is fecal-oral, so its presence in a young girl’s reproductive system is a big red flag.

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              seems less likely the more i try to find it, its possible the teacher said gonnorhea instead. because fecal-oral, and anal sex are the only ways, its going to be hard to infect someone through the urethra of men to a victim, since the infectious cysts only appears in the feces, giardia solely reproduces in the intestinal track. when i looked up gonnorhea and children, there was quite a few papers on it.

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                This was a proper parasitology class reviewing amebas. It’s possible it could’ve been a related organism, though, but the characteristic “eyes” on the parasite stuck with me with that sentence because I think she had it up on the projector.

                Now I’m curious about what exactly she said, I wish I could rewind time.