The causative agents of chlamydial infection are specific microorganisms - chlamydia, which lead to the appearance of urogenital chlamydia in humans. But not everything is so simple. The bacteria also participate in the development of the disease. It is the semi-viral, semi-bacterial nature of chlamydia that is the cause of its difficult diagnosis and treatment. Diagnosis is complicated by the fact that most men and women suffering from chlamydia do not initially feel any symptoms. Because chlamydia can live only by invading other cells, they are transmitted through direct genital contact with sperm or vaginal secretions.
Vaginal intercourse is the most common way of transmission of infection with chlamydia, but one can also get infected from sperm, vaginal secretions of an infected person if they come into contact with the mucous membrane.
Chlamydia is the most complex of all sexually transmitted diseases. It can be transmitted already at the first sexual intercourse, although there are exceptions. Modern methods of diagnosis have identified the presence of chlamydia in every second woman with chronic inflammatory diseases of the genitourinary area, 57% of women suffering from infertility and 87% of women who have not yet been pregnant. In men, chlamydia is defined in 40% of cases.
According to scientists, if for a short period of time the patient had sexual intercourse with several women, he can be treated for chlamydia without preliminary research. Of course, this view is too strong. This sexual infection often has an incubation period of 5-7 to 30 days. Initially, it is asymptomatic.
Disease can cause various pathologies. In men, it initially affects the urethra, and then the prostate and scrotum. Chlamydia in men sometimes proceeds very sharply. In most cases, the disease is accompanied by unpleasant sensations, itching in the urethra, secretions from the urethra. In women, chlamydia most often affects the cervix, then the ascending infection gradually covers the entire uterus, fallopian tubes, ovaries and internal organs. Chlamydia from the urethra easily penetrate into the bladder cavity and can cause cystitis.
Chlamydia is a sexual infection that does not have an accurate clinical picture and, therefore, after diagnosis is necessary, laboratory diagnostics. Experts recommend that women be attentive to their physical condition and control their underwear for the presence of excreta. If they are too thick, you should immediately consult a specialist.
Very often chlamydia is a common infection among women suffering from infertility. A woman can not become pregnant. Doctors start to look for the cause and find an obstruction in the fallopian tubes. If a woman infected with chlamydia is pregnant, the infection can be transmitted to the child during childbirth. This does not mean that the pregnancy should be interrupted. The placenta protects the fetus from intrauterine infection, the contamination remains only in the birth canal and the organs of the mother.
Sometimes women with chlamydia develop cystitis and pyelonephritis. In most cases, this is indicated by abdominal pain, frequent urge to urinate with acute pain, fatigue, discharge from the urethra and genitals, unreasonably high fever.
Chlamydia as an infection is an unpleasant phenomenon, dangerous for its consequences. Therefore, with the first symptoms, immediately contact a venereologist, urologist and gynecologist. It is important that both partners are tested and treated at the same time. Treatment of chlamydia should be comprehensive: antibiotics, antiviral therapy, as well as the necessary local therapy (physiological procedures).
To start timely treatment, pay attention to the following symptoms of chlamydia:
- The presence of pale yellow clots or mucus in secretion;
Burning sensation when urinating;
- Painful sexual intercourse for women;
- Intermenstrual vaginal bleeding, bleeding after intercourse;
- For men - redness of the glans penis.
The risk of the disease can be reduced by:
- Reducing the number of sexual partners;
- The use of condoms;
- Regular surveys by specialists.