Chlamydia is one of the most frequent STDs. The disease is spread through a bacterium bearing the same name, Chlamydia and it can emerge more often in the case of teenagers who are active from the sexual point of view and in the case of young adults. The disease can be severe, but it can be easily cured if it is detected in due time. It is as well, the greatest cause of blindness in the world, which can be prevented. Blindness can occur as a conjunctivitis complication associated with Chlamydia.



Men infected with Chlamydia can also have infection in the urine canal (urethra). A great number of women who are sick with Chlamydia and are not treated by a doctor will eventually also have pelvic inflammatory syndrome. A number of other inflictions could follow, such as uterus infections, uterine proboscis and/or ovaries infections, which could lead to an irreversible damage such as infertility.

In pelvic inflammatory syndrome, the woman's reproduction organs will develop wounds that will cause severe regular pelvic pains, infertility, extra uterine pregnancy and other severe problems in regard to pregnancy.

As well as in the case of gonorrhea, the bacterium Chlamydia can be found in the uterine cervix and urethra and they can live as well inside the throat or rect. Both men and women infested frequently do not develop Chlamydia infection symptoms. Thus, these persons can spread the infection without being aware. The bacterium can pass from a person to the other through sexual contact and through oral sex as well.

If a person touches infected fluid and touches the eyes, then there is a great risk of the eye becoming infected too. The baby can contract the disease from the mother during birth and can have at once pneumonia and pink eye which could have serious consequences on the baby's well-being. Once the disease is diagnosed, treatment is easy. However, if treatment for Chlamydia infection is not administered for a long period of time, more serious health problems could ensue.

Chlamydia is known as the "silent" disease because they do not give out noticeable symptoms. And if they do appear several weeks after exposure, they seem so negligible and the person forgets about them completely.

Sign and symptoms of infection with Chlamydia can include: - painful urinating or the need to urinate more frequently than usually -inferior abdominal pain -vaginal discharge in the case of women -bleeding between menstruations -painful intercourse -penis discharge in the case of men -inflamed testicles, painful if touching them or fever Sometimes, Chlamydia infection can cause slight fever, muscular pain or headache.

Infected men might produce discharge from their penis and experience a burning sensation while urinating. They might also have burning sensation and itching around the penis opening. On rare occasions there might also be pain swelling in the testicles.

As far as Chlamydia diagnostic is concerned, there are special tests based on urine analysis or it can be detected in the material taken from the vagina or the penis or even the anus. As it is a disease, which can affect especially young people, it can be prevented by sexual education programs in schools or social assistance centers.