Chlamydia is an infection that requires antibiotic treatment. When taken properly, symptoms can clear within a week.
After treatment, you should wait 7 days before engaging in sexual activity. This includes vaginal, oral and anal sex with or without a condom. You should also use barrier methods of contraception and get tested for STIs regularly.
Vaginal
Chlamydia can cause serious problems if a woman doesn’t get treated. It can damage her uterus, making it hard or impossible for her to get pregnant later on. It can also cause ectopic pregnancy, which happens when the baby is growing outside the womb. It can also cause pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). This causes pain during sex and inflammation of the fallopian tubes, which can lead to infertility. It can also cause pelvic pain, pelvic discharge, and vaginal itching or swelling. Chlamydia can be passed from a man to his partner during oral, anal, or vaginal sex. It can also be passed from a woman to her baby during childbirth.
It’s important to use barrier methods of contraception during sex. Men can protect themselves by using a condom during anal and vaginal sex. Women can protect themselves by using a Glyde dam, a cut-open condom, or plastic wrap to cover the penis during oral sex. Chlamydia treatment includes antibiotics to clear up the infection. It’s important to finish the entire course of antibiotics. You should also wait 7 days after finishing your antibiotics before having sex again. It’s also a good idea to get tested for chlamydia 3 months after your treatment to check that you’re not infected again.
It can be embarrassing to talk about sex and sexually transmitted infections. But sex-related issues are important to your health. Get regular sex tests and practice safer sex to reduce your risks of infections, complications, and to help prevent spreading STIs to others.
Anal
Chlamydia, unlike some other infections like chicken pox or measles, is bacterial and therefore can be treated with antibiotics. This doesn’t mean that you’re immune to getting it again, though. That’s why it’s so important to get screened regularly (your doctor can help determine how often) and practice safer sex by using barrier methods every time, including vaginal, anal and oral sex. It’s also good to talk openly with your partners and make sure that they are using protection, too.
It’s also important to know that chlamydia can spread through anal sex, even if you didn’t use a condom. This happens when the mucous membrane in the anus comes into contact with a semen sample, which can contain bacteria. Symptoms of anal chlamydia may include pain or itching in the lower abdomen, discharge that is white, yellow or gray and possibly smelly and anal bleeding.
Typically, you’ll be given a course of antibiotics that will clear up your infection within a few weeks. Then, you’ll need to wait seven days to resume sexual activity so that you don’t pass it on to your partner. Your partner will also need to take a test and receive treatment, as well. In some cases, the bacterium can infect the eyes, throat or rectum as well, and symptoms of these infections can include discharge from the eye (called conjunctivitis), pain when you pee or itching in the rectum.
Oral
Chlamydia spreads when you have unprotected sex (sex without using a condom) with an infected partner. It can also spread from a person to their sexual partner through contact with an infected object, such as the vaginal fluid or semen from another woman or man, or via a man’s urethra and testicles. Chlamydia can cause serious problems, including pelvic inflammatory disease in women (which can lead to permanent damage to the fallopian tubes, infertility and ectopic pregnancy), sex infection of the penis or anus in men and inflammation of the scrotal sac – epididymo orchitis – in men.
Chlamydia does not go away on its own and can only be cured by antibiotic treatment. It is common to get a repeat infection and it is important to be tested again about three months after your treatment to make sure you are clear.
Once your chlamydia is clear you should wait seven days before having any kind of sex, including oral and anal, with your partner. This is to allow the antibiotics to fully pass out of your system. You should also practise safe sex by using a condom at all times for all types of sex, and use water-based lubricant with anal sex. If you are worried about telling your partner(s) about your infection then you can contact a sexual health clinic or local department of public health nurse who can arrange for anonymous partner notification for you.
Other
Chlamydia is a common sexually transmitted infection (STI) that can be easily treated with antibiotics. It is important to take a full course of antibiotics and avoid vaginal, anal or oral sex until your treatment is complete. This will help prevent you from re-infecting yourself and passing the disease to other partners.
If chlamydia is left untreated, it can spread to the uterus and fallopian tubes in women and cause pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). PID can lead to serious reproductive health problems, including infertility and ectopic pregnancy. It can also lead to a type of arthritis called reactive arthritis in men and women. In men, it can sometimes infect the urethra or epididymis and cause pain and ejaculation problems.
Infection with chlamydia is very easy to treat and usually clears up in a few days with antibiotics. However, it is important for both partners to be treated at the same time and to abstain from sex until they have both completed their treatment. It is also a good idea for both partners to use barrier methods of contraception and to get tested regularly for STIs. This will reduce the risk of catching or spreading chlamydia and other infections. If you have any questions or concerns, contact your healthcare provider.
