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Can chlamydia affect your lips?
Chlamydia does not affect your lips. You can get chlamydia infection of the throat, though.
Do chlamydia symptoms include any type of pain?
Occasionally chlamydia can also affect other parts of the body, including the throat and eyes. Chlamydia often has no symptoms, especially among women.
How do you get tested for chlamydia in your throat?
A special chlamydia throat swab tests for chlamydia in your throat.
Can swallowing chlamydia infected semen harm a fetus?
While swallowing chlamydia-infected semen can infect your throat with chlamydia, it will not affect a pregnancy.
What organism does chlamydia affect?
Chlamydia can affect the cervix, urethra, epididymis, uterus, fallopian tubes, testes, rectum, throat, and conjunctiva. Chlamydia trachomatis can also affect the lungs of babies born to an infected woman.
Does chlamydia affect the outside of your body?
Chlamydia does not affect the outside of your body, and shows no external signs other than red eye if you get chlamydial conjunctivitis.
If you have chlamydia in your vagina does that mean you have it in your throat?
Chlamydia doesn't infect the tissues of the mouth, although it can infect the throat. If you have given someone oral sex, be sure to ask your health care provider to test you for chlamydia in the throat.
What is the portal of entry for chlamydia?
The portals of exit for chlamydia are the urethra, vagina, and rectum.
Which body systems are affected by chlamydia?
Chlamydia in the urethra affects the urinary system. Chlamydia in the epididymis, cervix, testes, uterus, or ovaries affects the reproductive system. Chlamydia in the anus or throat affects the digestive system. In babies born with chlamydia, chlamydia can affect the respiratory system and cause pneumonia. Chlamydia can affect the integumentary system by causing conjunctivitis.
Does alcohol affect the accuracy of a chlamydia test?
Chlamydia does not affect the accuracy of a chlamydia test.
Can you get chlamydia from body fluids being on or near your vagina but not in?
Yes, you can get infected with chlamydia even if he doesn't ejaculate inside you. Chlamydia can be spread by semen, vaginal discharge, or preejaculate fluid in or near the vaginal, urethra, or anus, as well as the throat and eyes.
Does chlamydia affect animals?
Chlamydia trachomatis, the bacterium that causes the STD known as chlamydia, does not affect any animal other than humans. Other types of chlamydia, such as Chlamydia psittaci, affect animals.
