Clamydia infection

The clamydia infection is part of the most frequent disease transferred by sexual contact. It is caused by the bacterium clamydia trachomatis. At this illness it is the insidious that it often goes almost symptomless. About 75% of the women and around 50% of the men have only insignificant or not the slightest troubles after the infection with clamydia. The following symptoms can appear:

With women it comes after the infection to an amplified discharge as well as pruritus and burning at the urination 10-20 days. At first the cervix and/or the urethra is concerned by the clamydia infection. However, the infection can climb also into the uterine cavity and into the oviducts. 20% of the infections change into an inflammation of the small pelvis. Symptoms of this inflammation are fevers and stomach ache. The infection spreads still further it can come to an infection of the liver capsule.

The most frequent symptom of the clamydia infection is the inflammation of the urethra at men. A mucopurulent discharge appears. At the urination it itches and burns.

The results of a clamydia infection for the fertility and the pregnancy are various:
  • Remain childless and tubal pregnancies are ten times as frequently watched with infected women as in the case of healthy.
  • In the case of a pregnancy bladder jump, premature labors and with that connected threaten more prematurely a premature delivery.
  • The danger of an infection is considerable at the birth for the newborn child. With the children it comes to an inflammation of the eyes (in 40-50 % of all cases) as well as to breath disturbances and lung inflammation.
The illness must therefore absolutely be recognized and given therapy. A smear of the cervix becomes at the first pregnancy check-up, perhaps also carried out by the urethra. A medical treatment is carried out with the antibiotic erythromycin at a positive result after the 14th pregnancy week. It importantly is that the partner is also co-treated to avoid a possible re-infection of the woman. A clamydia infection is completely usually cured treated correctly and consistently.

The first infection can already be behind years until the illness is recognized.


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