Chlamydia

Giving a person a medication without their knowledge is illegal and constitutes assault. It is dangerous, as some chlamydia medications can have fatal drug interactions if mixed with the wrong medications. It is unethical, as the person has the right to know they were exposed to an infection. It is ineffective, as your local Department of Health will likely to contact tracing to let them know that they were exposed.

Perhaps you made a mistake and are embarrassed to say that you exposed your partner to chlamydia. That is a common concern and fear. Do the right, legal, safe thing and give them the opportunity to get effective diagnosis and treatment.

There are one or two risks that can happen, but the risks are extremely low.

No, but you should be abstaining from sex while being treated for chlamydia, so your birth control effectiveness is not an issue, right?

You can have PID from chlamydia without having significant symptoms. Detection is difficult, but some PID can be detected by physical exam. Talk to your health care provider for advice specific for your situation.

There are a number of diseases that the respiratory system may get. Some of the common ones include emphysema, lung cancer and bronchitis among others.

Positive is positive. You need to go and get tested too. You can go to the local Health Dept and get tested and treated for free. Do not have oral, anal, or vaginal sex -- not even with a condom -- for seven days after single-dose treatment, or until seven-day treatment is complete. If you and your partner don't get tested and treated together you can keep giving it back and forth to each other. It can cause health problems if left untreated especially if you are planning to have a baby.

No, chlamydia is coccoid in shape.

On many occasions discharge may go away of it's own. But it is advisable to consult the physician.

There are three major types of Chlamydia: Chlamydia psittaci, Chlamydia pneumoniae, and Chlamydia trachomatis. Each of these has the potential to cause a type of pneumonia.

Chlamydia (Chlamydia trachomatis) is most commonly spread via sexual contact, so it will most likely not be spread via household washing, although that is quite vague. If by household washing you mean washing clothing of the infected individual with clothing of uninfected persons, than most likely not. The amount of bacteria required to cause infection would probably not make it onto clothing articles and, with proper washing, the detergent and subsequent drying would kill/immobilize any bacteria present. If you mean washing a surface with chlamydia bacteria on it and then washing another surface, again, most likely not - if you are using a cleaning product, it will most likely kill that bacteria. The only 2 ways this bacteria would be spread throughout a household is either through birth (a newborn baby can be exposed to it in the birth canal and develop an eye infection or pneumonia) or it is illegal, so your worries should are few!

A bland ointment such as Desitin or Balmex is safe to use for itching with chlamydia. You should avoid steroid creams or over-the-counter anti-itch creams such as Vagisil, though. Antifungals such as yeast medications will not be effective.

Talk with your health care provider about your symptoms. Severe itching may indicate a second infection, such as trichomoniasis. It's unusual for itching with chlamydia to be severe enough to require treatment.

Both are spread by sex, but you can have either one without having the other. Get tested for both.

Chlamydia doesn't typically cause odor. See your health care provider for a recheck. You may have contracted trichomoniasis as well as chlamydia.

Yes it is.

"Hyperthermic" means - subject to unusually high body temperature.

No, they do not. Please return to your health care provider to get specific testing and treatment for chlamydia.

Hormone changes of pregnancy can cause changes in urination and vaginal discharge, spotting after sex, and can make UTIs (and thus painful urination) more common. But it makes sense to get tested for chlamydia during pregnancy. Contact your health care provider to schedule a test.

Most people with chlamydia (80-90% of females and half of males) have no symptoms of chlamydia, or symptoms so mild that they are almost unnoticed. For this reason, symptoms may be perceived as having gradual or sudden onset, depending on the type of symptom experienced. Painful urination, for instance, may appear suddenly. Pelvic pain is likely to have a more subtle and gradual onset.

There is no connection between too much sugar and chlamydia. Chlamdydia is contracted through intimate contact with an infected person.

A yeast infection can not do so. And chlamydia is not viral. A yeast infection can't cause or lead to chlamydia, and chlamydia is a bacterial infection. You get chlamydia from sexual contact with someone who's infected. It's spread by oral, anal, or vaginal sex; genital-genital contact; sharing sex toys; or birth to an infected mother.

No they will not off set chlamydia reinfections.

Treatment is 95% effective. There is a 5% chance you still have it but it's so slim that you don't need to worry about it.

Yes and it can also kill her or make her paralyzed or cause the uterus to break so she will never be able to have a child again. It can land you many years in prison.

The chances of a false negative chlamydia test result with the newest test kits may be as high as 10%. The chances of two false negative results are 1%, and of three are one in one thousand. Having a negative result followed by a positive normally means that you were infected with chlamydia between the first and second test.