Can you get chlamydia from sharing underwear?

Answer 1

Unlikely but possible. It is unlikely that someone would be infected this way because the bacteria are not great at living outside of a moist environment, but if underwear were shared immediately after being in contact with someone infected with chlamydia and there was infected body fluid present at the time, transmission could occur. Chlamydia dies within minutes when it's outside the body.

It is unsanitary to share personal clothing items. There are other transmission risks (pubic lice/scabies) that present a clear possibility for infection when sharing articles of clothing that are in such close contact with another person's genitals.

Answer 2

Using a condom will lower the risk, but not eliminate it, just as condoms lower the risk of pregnancy but aren't 100% effective. The infected person should get treated. He or she should abstain from oral, anal, and vaginal sex; genital-genital contat; and sharing sex toyx for for 1 week after single-dose treatment, or until 7-day treatment is completed. Couples in treatment should not even have sex with a condom. All partners should be tested and treated before resuming sexual contact.

Of 100 couples using condoms correctly, and using them every time they have sex, two or fewer can expect a pregnancy rates of . But couples rarely use condoms correctly and consistently; among 100 typical couples, 10 to 15 will get pregnant after using them for a year. Since the failure related to pregnancy and that related to chlamydia are the same, one can assume that the failure rate for condoms is similar.

Causes of failure include:

• Genital-genital contact before putting on the condom
• Breakage, which happens about twice for every 100 condoms used
• Not holding on to the condom when pulling out the penis
• Not removing the penis before the erection goes away, running the risk of the condom falling off

If the rubber breaks

Answer 3

No condom manufacturer will give you 100% protection promise - consider this in respect to your sex partner.

Answer 4

No...not possible