Laboratory tests can diagnose chlamydia. Your health care provider may ask you to provide a urine sample or may use or ask you to use a cotton swab to get a sample from your vagina to test for chlamydia.
Yes, chlamydia can be cured with the right treatment. It is important that you take all of the medication your doctor prescribes to cure your infection. When taken properly it will stop the infection and could decrease your chances of having complications later on.
You should not share medication for chlamydia with anyone. Repeat infection with chlamydia is common. You should be tested again about three months after you are treated, even if your sex partner s was treated. You should not have sex again until you and your sex partner s have completed treatment. 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. If symptoms do occur, they could include:.
PID can also be misdiagnosed as appendicitis, ectopic pregnancy, ruptured ovarian cysts or other problems. PID can be treated successfully, if diagnosed and treated early. When and for how long is a person able to spread chlamydia?
Does past infection with chlamydia make a person immune? Past infection with chlamydia does not make a person immune to chlamydia. What is the treatment for chlamydia?
What happens if chlamydia goes untreated? What can be done to prevent the spread of chlamydia? Limit your number of sex partners Use a male or female condom If you think you are infected or have been exposed, avoid any sexual contact and visit a local sexually transmitted disease STD clinic, a hospital or your doctor.
Either bring your sex partners with you when you are treated or notify them immediately so they can obtain examination and treatment. Revised: September Living with HIV.
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