When a patient has symptoms, they should go to their primary doctor, an emergency room, or the health department. They will diagnose you and write prescriptions.
Once chlamydia is contracted, the only available treatment is antibiotics. Although studies are always being done to search for new treatments for STDs, there are not any other options at this time.
Some chlamydia treatments can be dissolved. Talk to your pharmacist about options. There is a 1g azithromycin powder treatment for chlamydia meant to be mixed with liquid.
Nitrofurantoin does not cure chlamydia. You should see a doctor and have a treatment. Typical treatments for chlamydia include doxycycline, azithromycin or herbal medicine called Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory Pill.
You can get chlamydia after use of steroids. But the steroids don't cause it. You get chlamydia from sexual contact with an infected person. You can get chlamydia from oral, anal, or vaginal sex; genital-genital contact; sharing sex toys; or birth to an infected woman.
Ofloxacin can cure chlamydia, but there are less expensive and easier treatments available. See your health care provider for effective diagnosis and treatment.
Chlamydia usually doesn't cause an odor. If you have a vaginal discharge or urine with an odor, please contact your health care provider for an exam. Trichomoniasis is also spread through sex, causes an odor, and may be passed from person to person along with chlamydia. The treatments are different.
The first line treatments for chlamydia, azithromycin and doxycycline, require no dosage adjustment in liver disease. Talk with your health care provider about effective and safe treatment specific to your medical history.
Some alternative treatments include nutritional therapy, herbal remedies, traditional Chinese medicine like Fuyan Pill for female and Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory Pill for male, and homeopathy. An antibiotic must be taken to cure chlamydia. Usually zithromax or doxycycline is given; alternative treatments are erythromycin, ofloxacin, or levofloxacin.
There hasn't been a problem with drug resistance with chlamydia, but the biggest change was the introduction of azithromycin, which is a one-day treatment that's easier to complete than the previous seven-day doxycycline or erythromycin treatment.
Get tested before and/or early in pregnancy, get treated if you have chlamydia, make sure all partners are treated, and don't have unprotected sex with anyone who might put you or the baby at risk.
You may be having symptoms after chlamydia treatment because you were reinfected, did not take treatment correctly, or have another infection as well. Contact your health care provider for information on further testing and exam.
One effective treatment is enough, but there is no serious harm in taking two, other than the normal risks of taking any antibiotic.