Chlamydia is the most common sexually transmitted disease in Denmark. Due to the symptoms the actual amount is difficult to measure, but around 25.000 cases are diagnosed each year. The disease is caused by the bacterium chlamydia trachomatis. These are living in the membranes. In women infected mucous membranes in the cervical canal as a rule, while women most often infect the urethra and alternative mucous membranes in the end the intestine.
Bacteria cannot survive outside the cells in the membranes, but in one of its life-stages, it is possible to survive breifly. The chlamydia bacteria can survive the transfer in this life-stage and increases the risk of infection.
Differently from gonorrhea, the disease cannot be transmitted by contact with other sheets where one has been infected. The emergence of this disease often have symptoms, making it difficult to eradicate, since there are many symptom-free carriers around.
a test is necessary if you believe you have been infected. Although we do not have symptoms, the disease can have serious consequences if not treated. If you get diagnosed with chlamydia, it is important to contact the partners who may have transmitted the infection, or which can be achieved to have infected so that they can be tested and treated.
Most cases of chlamydia treated with a single dose of azitromycin, which is an antibiotic to cure most cases. It is important that both the investigation and his partner is treated as infection or uværgeligt will come again.
A higher dose is sometimes needed.
The only way to prevent chlamydia infections is to “have sex with prudence”. Including the use of condoms for sex. Using condoms for protection is the most effective contraception. Sexually transmitted diseases are not prevented by the use of the pill, diaphragm, spermicides cream or a spiral. In addition, an increased risk with the number of sexual partners
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