You can have a culture or urine test to know if you are infected.
If a woman's cervix bleeds with minimal contact, it may be a sign of chlamydia. Bleeding or spotting after a pap smear isn't necessarily a sign of chlamydia. Since you're concerned, contact your health care provider to make sure you were tested for chlamydia at the time of the pap smear.
If you have the symptoms, Get tested, something is not right.
A special chlamydia throat swab tests for chlamydia in your throat.
Chlamydia is an infection and if you are sexually active it is the only way you could have come into contact with it. Once you have it you can pass it on. You will need to confirm you have it by being tested.
You can't get chlamydia from sharing needles or stress. You get chlamydia from sexual contact with an infected person.
Possibly. If you were exposed to chlamydia, you should get tested, even if you were on antibiotics at the time.
Urine tests are effective for testing chlamydia, as long as the right test is ordered. A routine urinalysis or urine culture will not detect chlamydia. The specific chlamydia test needs to be ordered. There is a DNA amplification test that can be performed for chlamydia and gonorrhea on a urine sample. The urine, however, should not be a midstream sample - it should be the first urine that is urinated to get any of the bacteria that were growing in the urethra.
It is sometimes used to treat chlamydia. After taking it, get re-tested and confirm you are no longer infected.
Yes, chlamydia can cause discharge, irregular vaginal bleeding, and lower abdominal or pelvic pain. If you're having these symptoms, you may be experiencing pelvic inflammatory disease, a possible complication of chlamydia. Contact your health care provider today for urgent evaluation.
Chlamydia is not transmitted via casual contact.
No, chlamydia is a naturally-derived infection that is spread by sexual contact.
No, chlamydia cannot be tested through blood. It is typically diagnosed through urine or swab samples.