STD CHANCROID: TREATMENT
Chancroid is treatable with antibiotics, but recently there has been increasing bacterial resistance to some of the older antibiotics, such as the sulfas. Treatments that are generally effective include azithromycin, ceftriaxone, erythromycin, and ciprofloxacin. People who have had sex with an infected person within ten days of the time that person developed symptoms must be treated as contacts to the infection and receive medications for treatment, even if they do not show symptoms.
The symptoms usually disappear within a week or two, although scarring can remain after treatment. Treatment failures are common in people with HIV or others with poorly functioning immune systems, and those with HIV may require additional courses of therapy. If the lymph nodes are pus-filled, draining them may help with healing.
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