Chlamydia

Most people (80-90% of women and half of men) have no symptoms of chlamydia. If a person does have symptoms, they might have burning with urination, discharge, pelvic pain, or scrotal pain.

You can reduce the risk of chlamydia by getting tested before exchanging body fluids with a sex partner, and by using condoms regularly. Abstaining from oral, anal, and vaginal sex, genital-genital contact, and sharing sex toys can prevent all cases of chlamydia.

Depends on the clinical situation. For chlamydia without symptoms found on screening test, typically 100 mg twice daily for 7 days. For PID, treatment is longer and is combined with another medication. See your health care provider for information specific to your situation.

Chlamydia can't infect the breasts or nipples, even if they're pierced. You get chlamydia from having oral, anal, or vaginal sex; genital-genital contact; sharing sex toys; or birth to an infected mother.

No, herpes doesn't cause chlamydia or vice versa. Those stds are not related to each other.

Chlamydia is the number one sexually transmitted disease in the United States. Chlamydia is caused by the bacterium, Chlamydia trachomatis, which can damage a woman's reproductive organs. Even though symptoms of chlamydia are usually mild or absent, serious complications that cause irreversible damage, including infertility, can occur "silently" before a woman ever recognizes a problem. Chlamydia also can cause discharge from the penis of an infected man.

Yes, men can give chlamydia to men and women can give chlamydia to women.

Yes, a female can get chlamydia from a female, and a male can get chlamydia from a male

Chlamydia is not for life; it can be treated.

No, you can't get chlamydia from sharing a phone. It's spread only by sexual contact with someone who's infected. You get chlamydia from having oral, anal, or vaginal sex; genital-genital contact; sharing sex toys; or birth to a mother with chlamydia.

You could have chlamydia all during pregnancy and your doctor not know if you weren't tested during your pregnancy. Although chlamydia testing during pregnancy is the standard of care, unfortunately it's not unusual for doctors not to screen pregnant women for chlamydia if they perceive the woman to be at low risk. If you have any concerns, please ask for a test by name.

To get chlamydia test results, contact the health care provider that did the test.

Chlamydia trachomatis, the bacteria the causes the STD known as chlamydia is carried only by humans. It infects and reproduces in columnar epithelium, the kind of tissue found in the urethra, cervix, throat, rectum, and conjunctiva.

Chlamydia can be cured no matter how long you've had it. However, any damage caused by chlamydia will not be fixed by taking the antibiotic.

Chlamydia can cause premature rupture of membranes and preterm labor, both of which increase the risk of cerebral palsy.

Chlamydia doesn't case problems in the stomach itself, but one of the complications of chlamydia can be chronic pelvic pain.

See the doctor right away if you suspect chlamydia and gonorrhea.

Both latex condoms and synthetic non-latex condoms are effective at lowering the risk of chlamydia. Natural skin condoms, like lambskin, are not recommended for prevention of STDs.

But if you have chlamydia you should abstain from oral, anal and vaginal sex -- even with a condom.

There is a possibility your symptoms have cleared up, but you are not entirely cured. The antibotics you have been prescribed may not be effective in your case.

Has you partner been tested? Get your partner tested. You may be getting reinfected because your partner has chlmydia as well. Your partner may be asymptomatic - has chlmydia but is not showing any symptoms.

Also, how do you know you're getting reinfected with chlamydia? If you get tested too soon after treatment, you may be getting a false positive result. If you believe you're reinfected based on symptoms, you may have a second undetected infection.

An antibiotic must be taken to get rid of the chlamydia infection. Symptoms may disappear for a while, but they will return.

The vagina does not look any different in most women with chlamydia. There may be a slightly yellow discharge.

Yes. Because of changes in the cells of the cervix during pregnancy, it's easy to get chlamydia during pregnancy or immediately after birth than it is at other times.

You can't get chlamydia from wearing the clothes you wore before treatment. Chlamydia can only live for minutes outside the body. Chlamydia is spread by sexual contact with someone who's infected. You can get it from oral, anal, or vaginal sex; genital-genital contact; sharing sex toys; or birth to an infected woman.

"STD" describes how you get chlamydia. It is not a descriptor of whether or not it's curable.

Half of men and only 10-20% of women get symptoms of chlamydia.

There is no such thing as a "chlamydia trait." Chlamydia is not a genetic infection. Once you take effective treatment, the infection is gone, although any damage or scarring it caused is not reversible with antibiotics.