Congenital syphilis history and symptoms

Symptoms

 * Symptoms in newborns may include:
 * Failure to gain weight or failure to thrive
 * Fever
 * Irritability
 * No bridge to nose (saddle nose)
 * Early rash - small blisters on the palms and soles
 * Later rash - copper-colored, flat or bumpy rash on the face, palms, and soles
 * Rash of the mouth, genitalia, and anus
 * Watery discharge from the nose


 * Symptoms in older infants and young children may include:
 * Abnormal notched and peg-shaped teeth, called Hutchinson teeth
 * Bone pain
 * Blindness
 * Clouding of the cornea
 * Decreased hearing or deafness
 * Gray, mucus-like patches on the anus and outer vagina
 * Joint swelling
 * Refusal to move a painful arm or leg
 * Saber shins (bone problem of the lower leg)
 * Scarring of the skin around the mouth, genitalia, and anus