Chlamydia skin-to-skin contact

[baby face]

Hey fellas,

Has anyone read up on Chlamydia diease? Suppose to be a STD,
but I personally never heard of it. Can MP catch and pass this on to us generous customers?

This is scary stuff, I want to know how this can dampen the MP industry.

read this link; Study: Chlamydia in 4 percent of young adults

http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/05/12/chlamydia.ap/index.html

"WE DON'T WANT OUR GF TO GET INFECTED?"

 

[oldscholl88]

ROTFLMAO!!! Ask your doctor, do some research or just stick to jerking your beef "pal". hehehe

Better still use the search function and read up on all the discussions.


Then don't. Or are you the Hulkster's SO?

 

[Mya A]

Gee...if you are really scary of the STD stuff then you are in the wrong hobby and board.

 

[Alive&Well]

Why is it everytime someone brings up an STD comment / concern, you guys attack him? It's a legitimate concern. Tread carefuly is good advice.

 

[charlotte s]

Yes, it is a legitimate concern. As a matter a fact we should all take STD's more seriously.

While it is true that most STD

 

[Hannah]

Generally speaking you are right. However in this case the way it was expressed as well as, what I will assume is, pretend ignorance, well it just raises the question of motive.

 

[yoma_yomy_yoma]

fell victim to this std...from a mpa...do a search and check it out...not the greatest thing to catch but it can be cured and causes no harm internally if caught early...

 

[ELIZABETH C]

Chlamydial ("kla-MID-ee-uhl") infection is a curable sexually transmitted infection (STI), which is caused by a bacterium called Chlamydia trachomatis. You can get genital chlamydial infection during oral, vaginal, or anal sexual contact with an infected partner. It can cause serious problems in men and women as well as in newborn babies of infected mothers.
Chlamydial infection is one of the most widespread bacterial STIs in the United States. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that more than 4 million people are infected each year. Health economists estimate that chlamydial infections and the other problems they cause cost Americans more than $2 billion a year.

What Are the Symptoms of This STI?
Because chlamydial infection does not make most people sick, you can have it and not know it. Those who do have symptoms may have an abnormal discharge (mucus or pus) from the vagina or penis or pain while urinating. These early symptoms may be very mild. Symptoms usually appear within one to three weeks after being infected. Because the symptoms may be mild or not exist at all, you might not seek care and get treated.
The infection may move inside the body if it is not treated. There, it can cause pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) in women and epidydimitis in men, two very serious illnesses.

C. trachomatis can cause inflamed rectum and inflammation of the lining of the eye ("pink eye"). The bacteria also can infect the throat from oral sexual contact with an infected partner.

How Does the Doctor Diagnose Chlamydial Infection?
Chlamydial infection is easily confused with gonorrhea because the symptoms of both diseases are similar and the diseases can occur together, though rarely.
The most reliable ways to find out whether the infection is chlamydial are through laboratory tests. Usually, a doctor or other health care worker will send a sample of pus from the vagina or penis to a laboratory that will look for the bacteria.

The urine test does not require a pelvic exam or swabbing of the penis. Results from the urine test are available within 24 hours.

How is Chlamydial Infection Treated?
If you are infected with C. trachomatis, your doctor or other health care worker will probably give you a prescription for an antibiotic such as azithromycin (taken for one day only) or doxycycline (taken for seven days) to treat people with chlamydial infection. Or, you might get a prescription for another antibiotic such as erythromycin or ofloxacin.
Doctors may treat pregnant women with azithromycin or erythromycin, or sometimes, with amoxicillin. Penicillin, which doctors often use to treat some other STIs, won't cure chlamydial infections.

If you have chlamydial infection:

Take all of the prescribed medicine, even after symptoms disappear.
If the symptoms do not disappear within one to two weeks after finishing the medicine, go to your doctor or clinic again.
It is very important to tell your sex partners that you have chlamydial infection so that they can be tested and treated.
What Can Happen if the Infection is Not Treated?
In women, untreated chlamydial infections can lead to PID. In men, untreated chlamydial infections may lead to pain or swelling in the scrotal area, which is a sign of inflammation of a part of the male reproductive system located near the testicles known as the epididymis. Left untreated, these complications can prevent people from having children.
Each year up to 1 million women in the United States develop PID, a serious infection of the reproductive organs. As many as half of all cases of PID may be due to chlamydial infection, and many of these don't have symptoms. PID can cause scarring of the fallopian tubes, which can block the tubes and prevent fertilization from taking place. Researchers estimate that 100,000 women each year become infertile because of PID.

In other cases, scarring may interfere with the passage of the fertilized egg to the uterus during pregnancy. When this happens, the egg may attach itself to the fallopian tube. This is called ectopic or tubal pregnancy. This very serious condition results in a miscarriage and can cause death of the mother.


How Can I Prevent Getting Chlamydial Infection?
You can reduce your chances of getting chlamydia or of giving it to your partner by using male latex condoms correctly every time you have sexual intercourse.
If you are infected but have no symptoms, you may pass the bacteria to your sex partners without knowing it. Therefore, any doctors recommend that anyone who has more than one sex partner, especially women under 25 years of age, be tested for chlamydial infection regularly, even if they don't have symptoms.

 

[TrishARoo]

This is why things such as DATY are a concern because a lot of STD's don't have physical symptoms. If you're concerned don't stick your fingers anywhere and if you do wash them before you touch your genitals or mouth. An MPA, if she was touching herself and didn't wash her hands, CAN pass it on to you when it comes down to the release. The risk of catching a STD without FS or oral is very slim though, just be careful.

EVERY hobbyist should have themselves checked at least once a month, imo.