If you are pregnant, you should get tested for chlamydia at your first prenatal visit. Testing and treatment are the best ways to prevent health problems. Most people who have chlamydia have no symptoms. If you do have symptoms, they may not appear until several weeks after you have sex with an infected partner. Even when chlamydia causes no symptoms, it can damage your reproductive system. Men and women can also get infected with chlamydia in their rectum.
This happens either by having receptive anal sex, or by spread from another infected site such as the vagina. While these infections often cause no symptoms, they can cause. You should be examined by your doctor if you notice any of these symptoms or if your partner has an STD or symptoms of an STD. STD symptoms can include an unusual sore, a smelly discharge, burning when urinating, or bleeding between periods.
Laboratory tests can diagnose chlamydia. Your health care provider may ask you to provide a urine sample or may use or ask you to use a cotton swab to get a sample from your vagina to test for chlamydia. Yes, chlamydia can be cured with the right treatment. It is important that you take all of the medication your doctor prescribes to cure your infection.
When taken properly it will stop the infection and could decrease your chances of having complications later on. You should not share medication for chlamydia with anyone. Repeat infection with chlamydia is common. You should be tested again about three months after you are treated, even if your sex partner s was treated. You should not have sex again until you and your sex partner s have completed treatment.
If your doctor prescribes a single dose of medication, you should wait seven days after taking the medicine before having sex. If your doctor prescribes a medicine for you to take for seven days, you should wait until you have taken all of the doses before having sex. The initial damage that chlamydia causes often goes unnoticed. Common symptoms vary depending on where the infection is:. If it is not treated, chlamydia may lead to infertility, abdominal pain or pregnancy complications.
Anyone who is sexually active, including people who experience sexual violence, can get chlamydia. Chlamydia is most easily passed on during sex without a condom; this includes vaginal intercourse and anal intercourse. The only way to know for sure whether or not you have chlamydia is to get tested. A doctor or nurse can do the test. The test involves a swab of the genitals, rectum or throat or a urine pee sample.
Tell the doctor or nurse about all the different kinds of sex you are having so they can test all the right parts of your body. It is a good idea to get tested for other sexually transmitted infections STIs , including HIV, when you get tested for chlamydia.
Other STIs can be passed on in the same way as chlamydia. Talk to your healthcare provider about how often you should test for chlamydia and other STIs.
If you are diagnosed with chlamydia, a public health staff person will talk to you about informing your sex partners that they might have been exposed to chlamydia and encouraging them to get tested. Your identity will not be revealed.
Chlamydia can be cured with a single dose or a short course of antibiotics. If you are given a single dose to treat the infection, you should wait for seven days after taking it before having sex again. If you are given pills to take for seven days, you should wait until you have taken all the pills before having sex again. If you have a regular partner or partners, they should also be treated before you have sex with them.
Once you are cured, you cannot pass on chlamydia to your sex partners. But you can be infected again. However, it is estimated that almost 3 million cases actually occur each year. Chlamydia is most common in younger people. It is estimated that 1 in 20 sexually active young women aged years has chlamydia. Chlamydia is passed through oral, anal, or vaginal sex. Chlamydia can be passed from one person to another even if the penis or tongue does not go all the way into the vagina or anus.
Eye infections can occur when discharge caries the disease into the eye during sex or hand-to-eye contact. Chlamydia can also be passed from mother to newborn as the baby passes through the infected birth canal. This can result in eye infections, pneumonia or other complications.
It is important to understand that focusing on signs and symptoms is not very useful in determining if someone is infected with chlamydia. First, the symptoms of chlamydia are similar to the symptoms of gonorrhea, and the two infections are often confused. Also, approximately, most women and about half of men do not experience symptoms. So, most people who are infected will not be able to tell from symptoms.
If a person does have symptoms, they usually develop within one to three weeks after exposure to chlamydia. How long a person remains infectious able to transmit the bacteria to others is difficult to determine since so many people are asymptomatic. A person must be considered infectious from the time they become infected until treatment is completed. Because chlamydia is very common and often has no symptoms, anyone who is sexually active should think about being tested.
Because chlamydia is very common among young women, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC recommend sexually active women age 25 or younger get tested once per year. Chlamydia testing is also recommended for women with new or multiple sexual partners and pregnant women. Anyone who is sexually active should talk with a healthcare provider about whether they need testing for chlamydia or other STIs.
There are several different reliable tests for chlamydia. Newer tests, called NAATs short for nucleic acid amplification tests , are very accurate and easy to take. Your healthcare provider can explain what testing options are available urine or swab tests, for example. People infected with chlamydia are often also infected with gonorrhea, so patients with chlamydia are often treated for gonorrhea at the same time, since the cost of treatment is generally less than the cost of testing.
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