Many conditions, lifestyle choices, medications, and diseases
interfere with your ability to heal or fight infection. You may be at risk for
a more serious problem from your symptoms if you have any of the following. Be
sure to tell your health professional.
Conditions
- A problem or condition present since birth
(congenital defect)
- Previous genital injury
- Previous
surgery to genital area
- History of stroke or spinal cord
injury
- Surgery to remove the spleen
- Indwelling urinary
catheter
Lifestyle choices
- Alcohol abuse or withdrawal
- Drug abuse or
withdrawal
- Smoking or other tobacco use
- High-risk sexual
behaviors, such as:
- Unprotected intercourse, without male or
female condom use, except in a long-term single-partner (monogamous)
relationship
- Unprotected mouth-to-genital contact, except in a
long-term monogamous relationship
- Early sexual activity, before age
18
- Having multiple sex partners
- Having a high-risk
partner (one who has multiple sex partners)
- Having anal or
homosexual sex or have partner who does
- Having sex with a partner
who uses IV drugs
- Prostitution
- Genital piercings with
or without jewelry
Medications
- Blood-thinning medications, such as warfarin
(Coumadin), heparin, and aspirin
- Corticosteroids, such as prednisone
- Medications to prevent organ transplant rejection
- Medications used to treat cancer
(chemotherapy)
- Radiation therapy
Diseases
- Cancer
- Chlamydia
- Diabetes
- Genital
herpes
- Genital warts (human papillomavirus, or
HPV)
- Gonorrhea
- Hemophilia
- Human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection
- Idiopathic thrombocytopenic
purpura (ITP)
- Inherited bone disease
- Kidney
disease
- Lupus
- Lyme disease
- Malnutrition or
an eating disorder such as anorexia nervosa or bulimia
- Multiple
sclerosis
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteomyelitis
- Psoriasis
- Rheumatoid
arthritis
- Reiter's syndrome
- Sickle cell
disease
- Syphilis
- Trichomoniasis
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