Chlamydia treatment: Avoiding reinfection

Your chlamydia treatment is over. You and your partner were faithful to each other for months before you found out about the infection. And you've always used latex condoms.

But it's not yet safe to assume you've seen the last of chlamydia. Get retested in three to four months to be sure the infection has really cleared.

Retesting after chlamydia treatment isn't a new recommendation, but the three to four month interval is. Until recently, we retested much earlier — just a few weeks after chlamydia treatment. Now, evidence suggests that you still risk reinfection later. That's important because women whose sex partners have not been appropriately treated are at high risk of getting multiple chlamydia infections. Multiple infections increase your risk of serious reproductive health complications. In other words, your ability to have a baby may be threatened. 

To avoid chlamydia infection and reinfection:

Abstain from sex or be in a long-term mutually monogamous relationship with a partner who has a negative test.Use latex condoms consistently and correctly. Make sure your partner gets chlamydia treatment if you have chlamydia.Abstain from intercourse until you and your partner have finished treatment.Get retested three to four months after chlamydia treatment.

Remember!
All sexually active women, ages 15 to 24, should be tested annually for chlamydia!

 

Chlamydia! 50% of men and 75% of women don't have symptoms!

Chlamydia is one of the more insidious sexually transmitted diseases, since most men and women that are infected, are totally unaware that they have it.

According to their 2008 Sexually Transmitted Disease Report, the Center for Disease Control found that there were more than 1.5 million total cases of chlamydia and gonorrhea reported— making them the two most commonly reported notifiable infectious diseases in the United States. Bear in mind also, that in the case of Chlamydia, most of the people who have it don't even realize they have it, so the actual numbers are probably greatly under reported.

Additionally, adolescent girls and young women are especially hard hit by these two diseases. The largest number of reported cases of both chlamydia and gonorrhea in 2008 was among girls between 15 and 19 years of age, followed closely by young women 20 to 24 years of age. This likely reflects a combination of factors, including biological differences that place females at greater risk for STDs than males, as well as higher STD screening rates among young women.

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So, if found in a reasonable time frame, Chlamydia is relatively easily treated. If untreated, it can lead to sterility in men, and potential chronic damage to the reproductive health in women, even potentially leading to death in certain cases or possible spread to child during birth. Uuugh!

Avoid it by correctly using condoms, and make sure you get tested annually.

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