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Chlamydia
Chlamydia is a bacterial infection and is most commonly caught from sexual contact.
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Not very likely for this to occur.
What is being done about chlamydia?
A number of steps have been taken in the last decade or so to decrease the rate of chlamydia:
- Increased funding for diagnosis and treatment
- Marketing efforts to increase testing
- Development of less invasive, more reliable testing (e.g. with urine)
- Increased available of expedited partner therapy, providing treatment to the partners of patients diagnosed with chlamydia without the partner having to come in for testing.
- Required reporting and increased partner tracing by Departments of Health for chlamydia
- Encouragement via enhanced payment to health care providers and insurers for annual screening of females 25 and under for chlamydia.
Can you get chlamydia from tea tree oil?
It's spread by a bacterium. You won't get it from using tea tree oil.
What are the features of chlamydia?
- Frequently asymptomatic (no symptoms)
- Vaginal or penile discharge
- Burning during urination
- Women may experience lower abdominal pain, pain during intercourse and irregular bleeding between periods
- Men may experience swelling or pain in the testicles
The National Chlamydia Screening Programme in England is being extended to ensure all sexually active women and men under 25 can access chlamydia testing - this includes testing in other settings such as youth clubs and colleges. You can also buy home chlamydia testing kits, but the accuracy of these tests varies so it's important to get good advice from a pharmacist.
Women having intrauterine contraception (IUD or IUS) fitted, or having an abortion, will be offered a chlamydia test.
The test is simple and painless. Either a urine test is done or a swab (like a cotton bud) is used to take a sample of cells from the vagina or urethra. If you've had anal or oral sex, a swab will be taken from the rectum or throat. Your eyes will be tested if you have symptoms of conjunctivitis (discharge from the eye).
Does chlamydia look like worms?
Chlamydia does not look like worms. It's caused by a microscopic bacterium.
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Can you get chlamydia from a hot tub or sauna?
Chlamydia is not transferred in hot tub or sauna. The bacteria can't live in that environment, so you can't get it even if you're sitting right next to someone who's infected. On the other hand, if you have sex in the hot tub, you could be infected if your partner has it.
Where can you find a picture of the chlamydia bacteria?
An image of the chlamydia bacteria can be found at the related link.
What should you do if you can't get pregnant after treatment for chlamydia and gonorrhea?
If you are not pregnant after twelve months of having sex without birth control, talk with your health care provider about appropriate testing.
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What chlamydia treatment consists of four pills?
It may be four 250 mg tablets of azithromycin you are referring to. You will need to take all 4 at the same time.
What are the common co-infections for chlamydia?
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What other diseases can be caused by the bacteria Chlamydia trachomatis?Chlamydia trachomatis causes chlamydia, a sexually transmitted disease. It also causes endemic trachoma. Chlamydia trachomatis can also cause lymphogranuloma venereum, another sexually transmitted disease. Each of these infections is caused by a slightly different version of the bacteria. What symptoms, syndromes, or complications can the STI chlamydia cause?Chlamydia in men and women can cause urethritis, conjunctivitis, proctitis, or pharyngitis. In men, it can cause epididymitis, prostatitis, and orchitis. In women it can cause PID (pelvic inflammatory disease). In babies born to women with chlamydia, chlamydia trachomatis can cause pneumonia or conjunctivitis. In addition, chlamydia trachomatis is associated with Reiter's syndrome. What other infections are often found with chlamydia trachomatis?Patients tested for chlamydia usually get tested for gonorrhea at the same time as they both require the same specimen collection technique and may carry the same symptoms.How do you talk to the doctor about chlamydia?
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.
How can you get support if you get chlamydia?
Simply take the antibiotic (zithromax) to cure chlamydia. It likely will have no affect on your life at all. Go to your local health department if needed.
Assuming he received the correct treatment, odds are HIGH he is cured. But, how can he not know he had it and not know he had treatment?
Can you get the form of pneumonia due to chlamydia due to having intercourse with someone infected?
A baby can have pneumonia due to chlamydia trachomatis, the bacteria that causes the STD known as chlamydia. This type of pneumonia is not normally spread from the baby to others.
A different bacteria, Chlamydia pneumonia, is a common cause of bronchitis and pneumonia, and can be contagious. It is spread through airborne transmission, not by sex.
If the fertility test you took was one that involved bloodwork or a urine sample, you did not really get evaluated for the typical causes of infertility after chlamydia. If you haven't gotten pregnant after having sex without birth control for a year, see your health care provider with your partner to start testing.
Among women with chlamydia, 10 to 15% will have pelvic inflammatory disease. In many cases, they many not notice any symptoms although chlamydia is affecting their fertility.
Of those with PID, 20% may have scarring that affects fertility, and 9% may have future ectopic pregnancy.
So for every 100 women with chlamydia, two or three will be infertile and one to one and a half may have a future tubal pregnancy.
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What if you take azithromycin for chlamydia then take niacin to flush your system?
Not sure. But since niacin does not clean drugs out of your system, it's really a moot point.
If you have both syphilis and chlamydia can one treatment affect the other?
You can be treated for syphilis and chlamydia at the same time. The medications do not interact with each other.
Can chlamydia cause constipation?
Chlamydia doesn't typically cause constipation, but if someone is infected anally, they may have pain and difficulty emptying their bowels. Someone can get anal chlamydia from anal sex, but it can also affect women who have had vaginal sex, and in whom the bacteria have moved from the vagina to the rectum.
How fast can you get chlamydia from touching urine or blood?
It can happen almost immediately after coming in contact with the bacteria. If symptoms do occur, they may not appear until several weeks after exposure. But 50% of males and 80-90% of females have no symptoms when they have chlamydia.
Why is chlamydia gram negative?
it explains its added resistance. it is gram negative due to it's enhanced cell wall, etc.
Chlamydia can clear up on its own. A metaanalysis undertaken by the CDC suggests that chlamydia may clear on its own within a year in some cases (see related link). It is bacterial, and the body can remove bacterial infections. Certainly, you should seek antibiotic treatment if you test positive. Even without symptoms, untreated chlamydia can cause damage.
What is the pronosis for proctitis?
Proctitis caused by bacteria is curable with antibiotics. Genital herpes is not curable. Although symptoms can be suppressed, proctitis may reoccur.
