In 2014, chlamydia is most often diagnosed via urine testing in males, and with urine testing, cervical swab, or self-administered vaginal swab in females. For rectal or pharyngeal testing, a swab is used. Laboratory testing may involve growing chlamydia from the swab (rarely used in 2014), or looking for chlamydial DNA.
You get tested by the doctor.
Chlamydia can be treated in a woman.
A baby with chlamydial conjunctivitis or pneumonia due to Chlamydia trachomatis is treated with erythromycin. Because the effectiveness of treatment is only about 80%, retesting and possible retreatment should be done.A baby born with chlamydia can be cured easily, but some are not diagnosed for years after contracting the illness.
Chlamydia isn't treated with a shot. It's treated with oral medication (pills). Gonorrhea is treated with an antibiotic injection.
Chlamydia trachomatis improves rapidly with erythromycin. Chlamydia psittaci infection is treated with tetracycline, bed rest, oxygen supplementation, and codeine-containing cough preparations. Chlamydia pneumoniae infection is treated with erythromycin
A yeast infection is diagnosed by looking at vaginal discharge under a microscope. Chlamydia is diagnosed via a cervical swab or urine test. If laboratory testing is used, you can't mistake one for the other.
yes it can be.
No, you wouilldn't necessarily know if you were born with chlamydia. There have been cases in which children with lung problems were diagnosed with chlamydia years after birth.
Your health care provider is used to talking about chlamydia. First, say, "I'd like to be tested for chlamydia." Your health care provider should as if you've had oral, anal, or vaginal sex so that the right test specimen is used. If you know that a partner has been diagnosed with chlamydia, be sure to say so, as you might like to get treated that day while waiting for the results.
No, chlamydia cannot be tested through blood. It is typically diagnosed through urine or swab samples.
You can not compare the infections like that. Yeast infection will demand early treatment as it is trouble some. It can be easily diagnosed and can be treated easily. Chlamydia infection may go unnoticed and can get treated incompletely . So it can land up in serious complications, at times.
Babies get chlamydia during vaginal birth to an infected mother. They don't get infected before birth. An infected baby must be treated.
You would lower your risk of complication from untreated chlamydia.