Chlamydia

Yes, it is very possible. Many people can carry a bacteria or virus, then transfer it to another person (chlamydia and meningitis are good examples), and it is often that the second person gets the disease, without the first person ever being aware of their dangerous status.

A urine test for chlamydia won't make you bleed. A cervical swab may cause a small amount of spotting if your cervix is severely infected. One of the signs of chlamydia in females can be cervical bleeding with minimal contact.

Both partners should be tested; you should not assume that you are negative for STDs based on your partner's test. Various situations can lead to one partner being negative and another positive. Don't take a chance.

Chlamydia is a disease, but is not considered to be caused by a virus. It is an obligate intracellular parasite due to it having a lipopolysaccharide wall, resembling that of gram-negative bacteria. Therefore, it is considered to be caused by bacteria, not a virus.

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.

You can get chlamydia from someone who is infected. The partner's cleanliness has nothing to do with it.

You should have test results back within 1 week.

Green discharge may be caused by gonorrhea. Many people infected with gonorrhea will not notice any unusual discharge. See your health care provider for screening if you are at risk.

Yes you can get chlamydia in your eye. With regard to the sexually transmitted disease, infection of the eye usually this happens when infected people touch their genitals and then touch their eyes.

It is theoretically possible to transfer chlamydia by mouth to vagina, but it is believed that chlamydia is rarely transmitted to females through oral sex. The reason is that chlamydia does not infect the mouth, but only the throat. It is possible for a male to get chlamydia from oral sex, but cunnilingus and anilingus do not appear to be high-risk activities for transmitting chlamydia.

You can't get chlamydia from being too clean. You get chlamydia from sexual contact with someone who has it. It's spread by oral, anal, and vaginal sex; genital-genital contact; sharing sex toys; and birth to an infected woman.

Getting tested for STDs is almost painless. The only discomfort you might experience is the needle point used to collect blood. Not every screening for STDs involved a blood test, though.

CDC treatment guidlines list possible treatments for non-pregnant patient as azithromycin, doxycycline, erythromycin, ofloxacin, and levofloxacin. Pregnant women may also use amoxicillin.

There are no known drug interactions between alcohol and any of these antibiotics. Drinking alcohol will not affect how well treatment for chlamydia works. I'm not sure of the origin of this urban myth, but maybe some people confuse these medications with metronidazole, which is used for treatment of trichomonas and bacterial vaginosis, and which can cause serious nausea and vomiting if taken with alcohol.

Any standard prescribing reference can confirm the lack of drug interactions between alcohol and these medications.

Diclofenac (brand name Diclofelx) is an anti-inflammatory, not an antibiotic. It will not cure chlamydia nor any other infection.

Yogurt will not cure chlamydia or syphilis. See your health care provider for accurate diagnosis and effective treatment. The risks of untreated chlamydia and syphilis are high.

Infertility is defined as not getting pregnant after having sex for a year without birth control and without getting pregnant. See your health care provider for evaluation and discussion of options.

In men, chlamydia can lead to painful inflammation of the testicles, which may result in reduced fertility or sterility; and also occasionally Reiter's syndrome, which is inflammation of the joints, urethra and eyes.

Yes. You can have any number of pathogens at the same time. You should be treated for each before they destroy you. No reason exists why you should go untreated and have them turn your brain into scrambled eggs.

Yes, chlamydia is only passed through bodily fluids. 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.

Pap smears can't detect chlamydia, and a normal Pap doesn't mean you don't have chlamydia. A pap smear looks for cervical cancer and precancerous problems. If you need testing for chlamydia, ask for the test by name.

Chlamydia can be spread from the time you are infected. You can have it for years without knowing.

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.