Chlamydia

Chlamydia

Understanding Chlamydia

Chlamydia is a sexually transmitted disease that is transmitted through sexual intercourse without using a condom. Chlamydia is most often affects women who are younger, but the disease can infect both men and women at any age. This disease can cause more serious health problems if not dealt with thoroughly.

Symptoms of Chlamydia

Most cases of chlamydia occur, initially causes no symptoms in patients. But after 1-3 weeks after infection through sex with an infected person, usually new symptoms will appear. Symptoms of chlamydia that appears often overlooked because it is not serious and soon pass. Symptoms experienced by people with different women, but there is one common symptom experienced by men and women, namely pain or pain that comes when urinating.

This venereal disease causes no symptoms in about 50 percent of people men and about 50 percent more experience symptoms, such as the emergence of pain in the testicles, as well as white discharge thick or thin of the tip of the penis. Infections still occur and can be transmitted even if symptoms are gone.

The percentage of women who have no symptoms is about 75 percent, and 25 percent have symptoms most commonly occur as bleeding during or after sexual intercourse and vaginal discharge are not uncommon. In addition, there are also experiencing heavier than normal menstruation, bleeding between menstrual periods, and lower abdomen ached.

Chlamydia not only infects the genitals, but can also infect the eyes and cause conjunctivitis if vaginal fluid or semen infected with eyes. Infected eye will feel sore, swollen, irritated, and a discharge.

Anus can also be infected and cause bleeding, discharge, and pain and discomfort. In addition, the throat can also be infected and usually causes no symptoms.

See your doctor if you experience symptoms such as those mentioned above, or if your partner is infected with chlamydia.

Causes of Chlamydia

The bacteria chlamydia trachomatis is the cause of the disease chlamydia transmitted by people infected through sexual intercourse without using a condom. Transmission can chlamydia through oral sex, anal, vaginal, and benefit from having genitals. In addition, chlamydia can also be transmitted through sex toys that are not coated with a new condom or washed after use.

Sexual fluid that comes out of the genitals of these patients may spread the bacteria even without orgasm, ejaculation, or penetration. Having sex with many people or have multiple partners, can increase the risk of contracting chlamydia.

Chlamydia is not transmitted through the following points:

• Hug
• The toilet seat
• Towel
•  Tableware
• Kiss
•  Swimming pool
• Bathroom

Mothers with chlamydia can pass the infection in babies born and cause the eyes to swell and leak or called conjunctivitis and pneumonia. Therefore, when planning a pregnancy or early in pregnancy, make sure you're not having this infection and if positive, treated as soon as possible.

Diagnosis Chlamydia

Chlamydia can be diagnosed by a simple and painless, using swabs tool shaped like a cotton bud or through a urine sample tests. Infections were found in the body can be determined by analyzing urine samples in the laboratory.

Tool thin swabs inserted into the tip of the penis to get a sample of urine or urethral drain. As for female patients, the tools used swabs on the inside of the lower vagina or cervix.

Tools can be used swabs to collect cells from the eyelid if your eyes become inflamed and discharge due to infection chlamydia. Additionally, the tool can also be used swabs to take samples from the throat or anus if the patient's oral or anal sex.

The tests should be performed again after three months to ensure chlamydial infection is gone completely. Chlamydia can not be detected with a blood test or pap smear.

Chlamydia treatment

Chlamydia can be overcome by eating the right combination of antibiotics. Here are some antibiotics are usually prescribed by doctors to tackle chlamydia:

• Ofloxacin
• Doxycycline
•  Erythromycin
• Azithromycin
• Amoxicillin

Consult your doctor if you have allergies to antibiotics, are pregnant or breast-feeding, and use of contraceptives. Antibiotics are safe for consumption by pregnant women are amoxicillin, azithromycin, and erythromycin.

Patients are advised to abstain from sexual relations during the treatment period that usually lasts for 1-2 weeks or until the infection is experienced has been lost completely. And to prevent the transmission of return, your spouse must also do care, though not experiencing symptoms of chlamydia.

Antibiotic drugs have some side effects that can occur, but usually only minor side effects. The most common side effects caused by taking antibiotics are diarrhea, nausea, and abdominal pain. In addition, women who take antibiotics may experience side effects such as candiasis or fungal infection of the vagina.

Complications Chlamydia

Chlamydia can spread and cause long-term health problems if not handled properly. Here are some of the complications of chlamydia that can occur in male patients.

1. Epididymitis, which is an inflammation of the epididymis, which is part of the male reproductive system and channel for the sperm from the testicles. This disease has symptoms of swelling of the epididymis and cause pain. If not treated, the infection can lead to the emergence of a liquid or even pus, and if it is severe can lead to infertility.
2. Reactive arthritis, which is inflammation of the joints and more in men than women. Pain relievers non-steroidal anti-inflammatory, such as ibuprofen, can be used for controlling the symptoms of reactive arthritis. Usually the symptoms will improve within three months to a year, but this condition can come back again.
3. Urethritis, which is an inflammation of the urinary tract or urethral discharge. This condition usually have symptoms such as frequent and unable to resist urination, ache or burning when urinating, the foreskin or tip of the penis become irritated and sore, and the tip of the penis thick white discharge.

Women may also experience complications due to chlamydia as follows:

1. Cervicitis, which is an inflammation of the cervix or cervical cancer. Some cervicitis symptoms that can occur are lower abdominal pain, pain during intercourse, bleeding that occurs during or after sexual intercourse, and bleeding between menstrual periods.
2. Pelvic inflammatory disease, an infection that occurs in the ovary, uterus and fallopian tubes. If left untreated, this condition can increase the risk of ectopic pregnancy or fetal growth outside the uterus and miscarriages. This disease can cause pelvic ache constantly and infertility. This condition can be easily dealt with
3. Or swelling Bartholinitis Bartholin's glands that produce lubricating fluid in women during intercourse. Bartholin gland cyst can occur when the gland is clogged and infections, abscesses and can cause painful to the touch, sore, red and may cause fever. Antibiotics should be used to treat an infected abscess.
4. Salpingitis, which is an inflammation of the fallopian tubes that causes eggs from the ovaries to the uterus and harder to make the patient more difficult to conceive. The risk of having an ectopic pregnancy or a pregnancy outside the uterus will increase, even if the fallopian tube is only partially clogged.

Chlamydia prevention

To prevent transmission of sexually transmitted diseases, such as chlamydia, including gonorrhea and genital herpes, there are several ways you can do, is to use a condom during sexual intercourse and do not share the use of sex toys. The use of condoms during sexual intercourse is not 100 percent eliminate the risk of infection, but effective in reducing the risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases.

In addition, chlamydia infection can also be prevented by limiting sexual partners or faithful to one partner only. If you are sexually active with more than one person, then you are encouraged to conduct regular inspections, given chlamydia may not cause symptoms in some people.