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How long before sexual contact with chlamydia infection before symptoms in women?
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About 90 percent of women infected with Chlamydia do not have symptoms. Some symptoms will show up right away. Others may take days or week.
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How long can a male have chlamydia without having symptoms?
You shouldn't go at all. You need to make an appointment with your doctor as soon as possible before it spread or gets worse.
Can you cure chlamydia during the incubation period?
Yes, when you are getting treated you can still transmit chlamydia. Patients being treated should avoid oral, anal, and vaginal intercourse (even with a condom) until seven days after single-dose treatment, or until seven-day treatment is complete.
Can you carry chlamydia without transmitting it?
Yes - you can have chlamydia and not have any symptoms and it is an STD which of course can be passed on. This does not and will not go away without proper treatment and if not treated properly it can cause serious problems for your future such as not being able to conceive. You as well as anyone you have slept with must be tested and treated. The following link is information on chlamydia that you must read: http://www.cdc.gov/std/Chlamydia/STDFact-Chlamydia.htm
How much contact must you have to get chlamydia?
Minimal genital-genital contact can transmit chlamydia. Use a condom before oral, anal, or vaginal sex or genital-genital contact.
How long can you have chlamydia before giving it to your partner?
You can have chlamydia for years without knowing, but it can be spread during this time. Each time you have sex, there is about a 40% chance of transmitting chlamydia. The chances of having sex ten times without transmitting the infection are very small -- about 6 in 1000.It's important to remember, though, that the person who gets chlamydia may have no symptoms either. In women, 80-90% have no symptoms, and half of men don't have symptoms. Your health care provider can't tell you how long you've had chlamydia. It's not unusual for someone to enter a relationship with chlamydia, and for neither partner to know they're infected until they are screened.For that reason, you should get tested for STDs whenever you have a new partner.Yes, you can get chlamydia, or first get chlamydia symptoms, four months after your partner did.
How can your first chlamydia test be positive and your second test be negative?
There are a number of situations that could cause a positive chlamydia test followed by a negative test:Post-treatmentImperfect testUrinating within a short time before that negative second test was collectedLab errorAlso, a certain percentage of patients clear chlamydia without treatment. The infection may still have done damage before the immune system cleared the infection, though.I'm sure there are other possibilities, but those are the ones that jump to mind.
Is chlamydia curable if you had it for a long time?
Chlamydia is bacterial, and, like so many bacterial illnesses, it can be cured with antibiotics.
Can you get chlamydia from giving birth?
A baby born to a woman with chlamydia may be infected at birth. Children can get perinatal eye infections or pneumonia from chlamydia. The silver nitrate eyedrops used to prevent infection with gonorrhea at birth are not effective against chlamydia.
Can you get chlamydia and have a negative result until it became a full-blown infection?
If you were tested before 3 weeks after infection, the test could have turned up false.
What's Chlamydia?
Chlamydia can refer to a particular group of bacteria which cause a variety of diseases (see related question "What are chlamydiae?"), but usually chlamydia refers to the sexually transmitted disease caused by Chlamydia trachomatis.Chlamydia is a common sexually transmitted disease affecting 1.4 million Americans each year. Many men and 80-90% of women with chlamydia have no symptoms. Even though symptoms of chlamydia are usually mild or absent, the infection can cause serious complications including irreversible damage that can make it hard to get pregnant later. These complications can can occur "silently" before a patient ever recognizes a problem.Symptoms in men can include painful urination and discharge from the penis. In women, there could be painful urination, an unusual vaginal discharge, bleeding after sex or between periods, or abdominal pain.Only a health care provider can diagnose chlamydia (through laboratory tests). Laboratory testing is especially important, since the symptoms of chlamydia, if there are any at all, closely resemble those of other STDs (like gonorrhea), and those of other types of infections (like urinary tract infections).Chlamydia testing is painless, and can be done on a urine sample. Chlamydia is curable with certain types of antibiotics. There is no immunity against chlamydia, so you can get this infection again and again if re-exposed.If you think you have a sexually transmitted disease, contact your health care provider or a local health clinic.
How long does it take chlamydia to get into your system?
Chlamydia is not a blood borne disease, and is not in the blood.
Can you have chlamydia without having symptoms?
Yes, 80-90% of females and many males with chlamydia have no symptoms. Chlamydia can cause damage to the body, but it is easily curable with antibiotics. After effective treatment, the germ is gone. Patients should abstain from oral, anal, and vaginal sex before treatment and for 7 days after single-dose treatment, or until 7-day treatment is completed.
