Symptoms include fever as well as swelling and a variable degree of pain in the scrotum. Chlamydia may also result in adverse outcomes of pregnancy, including neonatal conjunctivitis newborn eye infections and pneumonia. In addition, recent research has shown that women infected with chlamydia have a 3 - 5 fold increased risk of acquiring HIV, if exposed. Medical confidentiality Legal Note Terms and Conditions. For all comments and questions, please write to us at: [email protected] Please note that this email address is only for comments, questions, and cancellation of appointments.
Sexual health and LGBT population. Molluscum contagiosum. Living with HIV. Post-exposure prophylaxis PEP. Choose a card STI's. What is chlamydia? If your baby has symptoms of these conditions, your midwife or GP can arrange for a test to check for chlamydia, and antibiotics can be used to treat the infection.
Untreated chlamydia in pregnancy may also increase the risk of problems such as premature labour and birth before 37 weeks of pregnancy or your baby being born with a low birthweight. In men, chlamydia can spread to the testicles and epididymis tubes that carry sperm from the testicles , causing them to become painful and swollen. This is known as epididymitis or epididymo-orchitis. This is very rare. The inflammation is usually treated with antibiotics. 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. 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. For women, one of the most serious complications from untreated chlamydia is pelvic inflammatory disease PID. And 1 in 8 women with a history of PID experience difficulties getting pregnant. PID can also cause ectopic pregnancy where a fertilized egg implants outside of the uterus and chronic pelvic pain.
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