A healthcare provider will obtain a specimen from the cervix, anus, throat, penis, or urine. Results are usually available within 1—2 days. The CDC recommends women under age 26, and those with risk factors get tested every yea r. Risk factors include new sex partners, multiple sex partners, men who have sex with men, a sex partner with concurrent partners, and a partner who has a sexually transmitted infection.
Fortunately, chlamydia is a curable STD. It is easily treated with antibiotics. All sexual partners must be notified, evaluated, tested, and treated. If not, then one may be reinfected by an untreated partner and the infection spread to future partners. Photo by Christin Noelle on Unsplash. During pregnancy, untreated Chlamydia can lead to preterm labor, preterm rupture of membranes water breaking , and premature delivery.
Pregnant women may pass chlamydial infections to their babies during delivery which may result in infections in the eyes or lungs. Chlamydia is the leading cause of blindness in underdeveloped countries. Prevention is best achieved by abstinence from sexual activity or to be in a long-term, mutually monogamous relationship.
The use of latex condoms consistently and correctly can reduce the risk of transmission. Condoms are highly effective in preventing fluid transmitted STDs. Screening for chlamydia is painless. For women, a specimen is swabbed from your vagina.
For men, it is a urine sample. For more information on chlamydia or other STDs or to make an appointment with an infectious disease specialist, please call Louis Children's Hospital. If your doctor prescribes a single dose of medication, you should wait seven days after taking the medicine before having sex. If your doctor prescribes a medicine for you to take for seven days, you should wait until you have taken all of the doses before having sex.
The initial damage that chlamydia causes often goes unnoticed. However, chlamydia can lead to serious health problems. If you are a woman, untreated chlamydia can spread to your uterus and fallopian tubes tubes that carry fertilized eggs from the ovaries to the uterus.
This can cause pelvic inflammatory disease PID. PID often has no symptoms, however some women may have abdominal and pelvic pain. PID can lead to long-term pelvic pain, inability to get pregnant , and potentially deadly ectopic pregnancy pregnancy outside the uterus.
Men rarely have health problems linked to chlamydia. Infection sometimes spreads to the tube that carries sperm from the testicles, causing pain and fever. Rarely, chlamydia can prevent a man from being able to have children. Box Rockville, MD E-mail: npin-info cdc. Skip directly to site content Skip directly to page options Skip directly to A-Z link. Section Navigation.
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Syndicate. Minus Related Pages. Routine screening is not recommended for men. However, the screening of sexually active young men should be considered in clinical settings with a high prevalence of chlamydia e.
Sexually active men who have sex with men MSM who had insertive intercourse should be screened for urethral chlamydial infection and MSM who had receptive anal intercourse should be screened for rectal infection at least annually; screening for pharyngeal infection is not recommended.. More frequent chlamydia screening at 3-month intervals is indicated for MSM, including those with HIV infection, if risk behaviors persist or if they or their sexual partners have multiple partners.
At the initial HIV care visit, providers should test all sexually active persons with HIV infection for chlamydia and perform testing at least annually during the course of HIV care. There are a number of diagnostic tests for chlamydia, including nucleic acid amplification tests NAATs , cell culture, and others. NAATs are the most sensitive tests, and can be performed on easily obtainable specimens such as vaginal swabs either clinician- or patient-collected or urine.
Vaginal swabs, either patient- or clinician-collected, are the optimal specimen to screen for genital chlamydia using NAATs in women; urine is the specimen of choice for men, and is an effective alternative specimen type for women. NAATs have demonstrated improved sensitivity and specificity compared with culture for the detection of C.
Chlamydia can be easily cured with antibiotics. Persons with chlamydia should abstain from sexual activity for 7 days after single dose antibiotics or until completion of a 7-day course of antibiotics, to prevent spreading the infection to partners.
It is important to take all of the medication prescribed to cure chlamydia. Medication for chlamydia should not be shared with anyone. Although medication will cure the infection, it will not repair any permanent damage done by the disease. Repeat infection with chlamydia is common. If a person has been diagnosed and treated for chlamydia, he or she should tell all recent anal, vaginal, or oral sex partners all sex partners within 60 days before the onset of symptoms or diagnosis so they can see a health care provider and be treated.
A person with chlamydia and all of his or her sex partners must avoid having sex until they have completed their treatment for chlamydia i. For tips on talking to partners about sex and STD testing, visit www.
To help get partners treated quickly, healthcare providers in some states may give infected individuals extra medicine or prescriptions to give to their sex partners. This is called expedited partner therapy or EPT. In published clinical trials comparing EPT to traditional patient referral i.
Latex male condoms, when used consistently and correctly, can reduce the risk of getting or giving chlamydia. More information is available at www. Genital ulcers and concomitant complaints in men attending a sexually transmitted infections clinic: implications for sexually transmitted infections management.
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