0
Although the CDC recommends annual screening of women 15 to 25 for chlamydia, many health care providers do not heed this recommendation. As of 2010, fewer than half of commercially insured women in this age group had been checked for chlamydia in the last year, and only 57% of Medicaid insureds had been checked for chlamydia during this time.
Women should not assume that their health care providers are providing this important screening. You should ask specifically to be screened if you are sexually active, and you should make sure that you're seeing a health care provider with evidence-based knowledge and expertise in helping you protect your sexual health.
Smart health care providers do. Chlamydia testing during pregnancy is the standard of care. Check with your prenatal care provider to make sure you were tested.
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
How do you get the results of a chlamydia test?
To get chlamydia test results, contact the health care provider that did the test.
Does alcohol affect the accuracy of a chlamydia test?
Chlamydia does not affect the accuracy of a chlamydia test.
Can an HIV test detect chlamydia?
No, it's only detected by a chlamydia test.
What does a negative chlamydia test mean?
A negative chlamydia test means you are not infected with the bacteria.
Is a bacterial infection test the same as a chlamydia test?
Testing for chlamydia is very specific. A regular bacterial culture or wet smear will not detect chlamydia.
Does a doctor have to ask for chlamydia to be test for in the urine or does it just show up?
To get tested for chlamydia, you must ask specifically for that test. Routine urinalysis or culture does not detect chlamydia.Chlamydia testing requires a specific test. Urine testing done for other purposes will not detect chlamydia.
Could you have chlamydia if there is no bacteria in your urine?
Yes. A culture to detect bacteria in the urine does not check for chlamydia. The urine test for chlamydia is not a standard urinalysis or urine culture, but is a specific test to detect chlamydia's genetic material. Ask for the test specifically if you are concerned.
Does douching cure chlamydia?
Douching does not cure chlamydia. On the contrary, douching can increase the risk of pelvic inflammatory disease and infertility due to chlamydia. Douching is not a healthful practice; you would be hard-pressed to find a female OBGYN who douches. Please seek treatment for chlamydia from your health care provider, and quit douching.
Is a urine test accurate to test for chlamydia?
A normal blood test will not detect the infection. To diagnose chlamydia, you need a urine test or swab of the vagina, urethra, rectum, throat, or eye. Blood tests can look for evidence of past infection with chlamydia, but these are of no use in determining current infection and aren't used to diagnose or treat disease.
What is a chlamydia culture?
A chlamydia culture is a particular type of chlamydia test that tries to grow the bacteria from a sample of body fluid. It is very difficult to do correctly, and so is not a very reliable test. A positive chlamydia culture can be believed, but there are many false negative chlamydia cultures. Talk with your health care provider about the right chlamydia test for your situation.
How soon can chlamydia show up in urine?
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.
If you took ciprofloxacin would a chlamydia test be positive?
If you took an adequate dose of ciprofloxacin to cure chlamydia, the chlamydia test should be negative as long as you didn't get tested too soon after treatment.
