Answer:
Zia has Syphilis.
Step-by-step explanation:
Congenital syphilis may be acquired by the unborn baby from the mother via vertical transmission. The early and late signs and symptoms of congenital syphilis are the following:
Early symptoms
- Prematurity
- Enlarged liver and spleen (Hepatosplenomegaly)
- Skeletal abnormalities
- Pneumonia
- Pemphigus syphiliticus (skin disease)
Late symptoms
- Frontal bossing (prominent brow ridge)
- interstitial keratitis (inflammation of cornea)
- Saddle nose (bony part is destroyed)
- Deafness (cranial nerve 8 disease)
- Hutchinson's teeth (blunted upper incisor teeth)
- Hard palate defect
- Protruding mandible
- Saber shins
- Swollen knees
Treatment of Syphilis
Aqueous crystalline penicillin G 100,000–150,000 units/kg/day, administered as 50,000 units/kg/dose IV every 12 hours during the first 7 days of life and every 8 hours thereafter for a total of 10 days .
OR
Procaine penicillin G 50,000 units/kg/dose IM in a single daily dose for 10 days
Getting a syphilis test at your first prenatal visit can prevent health complications for both mother and infant.