Diameter Of Chlamydia

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Questions About Chlamydia

1. What is chlamydia?
Chlamydia is a sexually transmitted disease that is caused by the chlamydia trachomatis bacteria.

2. What does chlamydia do?
Chlamydia generally begins by infecting the cervix in women, or the urethra in men. It may cause mild irritation or a slight discharge, but most people who have chlamydia have few if any symptoms. The real danger to chlamydia is in its long-term effects. Chlamydia can cause scarring and serious damage to your reproductive organs. It can make you infertile, or cause pelvic inflammatory disease - a condition that affects mostly young women and causes chronic, severe pelvic pain. It can also scar the fallopian tubes, and increases the risk of ectopic pregnancy in women. Doctors are also beginning to think that it may affect young men more seriously than they once thought. There is some evidence that long-term infection with chlamydia causes a change in the sperm and makes it harder for a man to get a woman pregnant.

3. How likely is it that I'll get chlamydia?
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control keep statistics on all sorts of diseases. In 2004, there were almost 900,000 cases of chlamydia reported across the United States. However, because chlamydia usually has no symptoms, the CDC believes that the real number of people with chlamydia is closer to 2 « million. They also estimate that about 10-12% of teenage girls have chlamydia, and about 8.5% of young men between 18 and 24 also have it.

If you are sexually active, you are at risk for getting chlamydia. The more partners you have, the greater your risk. Even if you only have one partner, your risk increases if they have multiple partners. If you are not sexually active at all, you have no risk. If you are only sexually active with one other person who is also monogamous, your risk is very low. You can reduce the risk of getting chlamydia by using condoms from the first skin-to-skin contact during sex.

4. How do you get chlamydia?
Chlamydia is passed through direct contact. You can't get chlamydia from a toilet seat or from shaking hands. In most cases, there must be direct contact between mucous membranes in order for the bacteria to transfer from one person to another. The contact can include contact between penis and mouth, penis and anus or penis and vagina. It does not have to involve penetration - you can get chlamydia just from 'rubbing up against it'.

5. What parts of the body does chlamydia affect?
The places that an infection of chlamydia can happen include:
-- the surfaces of the vagina, urethra, the endometrium or the cervix
-- the fallopian tubes
-- the rectum and anus
-- the lining of the eyelid (conjunctivitis)
-- the throat
-- the lungs (in newborns)

1. How is chlamydia diagnosed?
Since chlamydia so seldom causes symptoms, most chlamydia is found during routine screening exams. Testing for chlamydia is a simple matter of swabbing the affected area and testing the swab for the presence of chlamydia bacteria. There are also urine tests that can detect chlamydia.

2. Is chlamydia curable?
Absolutely. In fact, chlamydia is very easy to cure. All it takes in most cases is some antibiotics. Depending on the antibiotics that your doctor picks, it may only take one pill to get rid of your infection.

3. Is chlamydia preventable?
Like most sexually transmitted diseases, the surest way to prevent chlamydia is by abstaining from sexual relations. The risk of infection between two monogamous partners who have tested clean is nearly non-existent. You can also reduce the risk of getting chlamydia by always using condoms when you have any sexual contact with another person.

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