![]() STDs with Similar Symptoms to Blue Waffle While there are a few, generally small differences between how they impact each gender, both men and women are equally as susceptible to all STDs. With gender discrimination, STDs have none. Practice safe and responsible sex and there’s nothing wrong with having sex regardless of gender. This is all, of course, completely false. It has commonly been said to be caused by having lots of sex, and conveniently leaves genitals blue as proof of promiscuity. Blue Waffle is allegedly an STD that only affects women. Why did Blue Waffle even come into existence? While this is probably said and done in good fun, it’s also said and done in discrimination. That being said, waffle is slang for “vagina”. Waffle doesn’t mean anything sexually as the term Blue Waffle is a fictional sexually transmitted infection. Neither conditions will make your labia turn blue but you’ll want to see a doctor to address the symptoms immediately. And a yeast infection can cause redness and swelling outside the vagina. ![]() Herpes Simplex Virus-2, or genital herpes, can cause blistering sores and ulcers that eventually become scabs. “Sometimes a symptom doesn’t present (itself) immediately.”Ĭertain STD or STIs and vaginal infections may have symptoms that are similar (but not as disgusting) as those in the blue waffle disease “photo”. ![]() “If someone is having STI or STD symptoms, regardless of whether they were recently exposed or not, it is important that they see their doctor,” says Dr. You won’t be diagnosed with blue waffle disease, but tests might show that you have another infection. In case you are experiencing itching, or any other discomfort or symptom on or around your vulva or vagina, it’s important to get them checked, she said. She addressed Blue Waffles two years ago, but the image, like any infamous viral meme, continues to circulate, and unsuspecting people fall for it.Ĭhristine Greves, MD, an ob-gyn at Orlando Health in Florida, confirmed to Health that she has never heard of Blue Waffle disease and doesn’t believe it could be real. “It is an elaborate internet hoax with somebody who has extensive, beautiful photoshopping skills,” Dr. In 2017 the Annals of Internal Medicine website featured Anita Ravi, MD, a family medicine physician based in New Jersey, confirmed that the disease was not real. The same blog article by the Women’s Health Foundation concluded that cursed image was the result of either photoshopped or vaginal manipulation. There certainly was something seriously wrong with whoever’s genitals were in that picture, but it was caused by SSP- Seriously Smart Photoshop not an STD. So whatever symptoms you may have heard with regards to Blue Waffle, as well as the methods of how to obtain it, are all completely fictional and false. I had never heard of this until you wrote to our section and asked about it.” No disease can cause a blue appearance on the external genitalia. “There is no disease known as “Blue Waffle Disease” in the medical world. Amy Whitaker, an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics/Gynecology at the University of Chicago Hospital, about Blue Waffle, she said: When the Women’s Health Foundation blog asked Dr. What Do Doctors Say about Blue Waffle?īlue Waffle: “an elaborate internet hoax with extensive, beautiful photoshopping skills”. Her statements only furthered the confusion in the public regarding the fictional disease and ended up highlighting the general lack of knowledge regarding STDs. The false information she received was unfortunately sourced from a “concerned citizen” which turned out to be an April Fool’s joke. In her defense, her wildly inaccurate claims had good intentions as she was just trying to look out for her community. According to her, the disease had claimed 85 lives in just Trenton alone, and it was “a virus that is 10 times greater at this point than the AIDS virus.” Let’s just say that the people too curious for their own good or were expecting to find literally blue waffles discovered the very graphic image of a blue colored vagina which turned out to be nothing more than a prank and a figment of some lowlifes imagination.Ĭoming back to pranks, a councilwoman from New Jersey brought Blue Waffle back to light in 2013 after falsely claiming that Blue Waffle was a sweeping epidemic and demanded the public’s attention. The original meme contained a blue waffle and text which read “Bet you can’t find me on Google image search”.īlue Waffle was a typical meme that was created to shock or horrify the person who has the courage to look up “Blue Waffle.” This meme is old news today, but it’s still quite shocking and weird enough to still hold the test of time.
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