what age group does chlamydia affect the most?
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Both are wonderful answers, but 15-25 age group seems, in my experence, to suffer the most.
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Since this question is in Women's health, I'll assume you are female. Chlamydia can greatly reduce fertility in men. It can, if untreated, be very serious in women too and lead eventually to infertility. Go here for straight answers that are clear.\nhttp://www.engenderhealth.org/wh/inf/dchl.html
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Chlamydia\n\nChlamydia is the most common STD in the United States, and also the most invisible.\nChlamydia is a microscopic parasite that can cause sterility in women and men. Four million American men and women become infected every year.\n\nIn women, chlamydia infects the cervix and can spread to the urethra, Fallopian tubes and ovaries. It can cause bladder infections and serious pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), sterility and ectopic pregnancy, which occurs when a fertilized egg implants in tissue outside of the uterus, and the placenta and fetus begin to develop there. Up to 40 percent of women with untreated chlamydia will develop PID. Of those with PID, 20 percent will become infertile. In men, chlamydia infects the urethra and may spread to the testicles, causing epididymitis, which can cause sterility.\n\nChlamydia can also lead to Reiter's syndrome, especially in young men. Reiter's syndrome involves eye infections, urethritis and arthritis. \n\n\nSymptoms and how chlamydia is spread\n\nSymptoms of chlamydia include the following:\n\n\nDischarge from the penis or vagina\n\nPain or burning while urinating, more than usual urination\n\nExcessive vaginal bleeding\n\nPainful intercourse for women\n\nSpotting between periods or after intercourse\n\nAbdominal pain, nausea, fever\n\nInflammation of the rectum or cervix\n\nSwelling or pain in the testicles \nSeventy-five percent of women with chlamydia have no symptoms. Many women discover they have chlamydia only because their partners are found to be infected. Other women discover that they must have had it for some time when they are treated for the infertility that it can cause.\n\nIf symptoms appear, they do so in seven to 21 days. If your partner is a man, and he has a urinary tract infection, you may have chlamydia.\n\nOnly one in four men with chlamydia have no symptoms. \n\nChlamydia is spread by vaginal and anal intercourse or from the birth canal to the fetus. In rare cases, it can be spread from the hand to the eye. Condoms offer very good protection against chlamydia.\n\nChlamydia can be confused with gonorrhea and other conditions. Examination of tissue samples or urine is necessary for correct diagnosis.\n\nBoth partners can be treated successfully with antibiotics.
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You will need to be tested and then take a course of anti-biotics precribed by your doctor.\nIn the UK it is given in the form of just 1 or 2 tablets that you take one day after the other. There are no side affects and it will clear up the chlamydia.\nYou should go back to your doctor for further tests to make sure that it has cleared as chlamydia is easily passed on and can make women infertile.
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PID is a general term that refers to infection and inflammation of the upper genital tract in women. It can affect the uterus, tubes, ovaries and other organs. The scarring that results can lead to infertility, tubal pregnancy, chronic pelvic pain, abscesses and other serious problems. PID is the most common, preventable cause of infertility in the United States.  \n\nWomen at greater risk for PID include those at risk for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and those with a prior episode of PID. Sexually active women under age 25 are at risk as well because the cervix (opening to the uterus) of teens and young women has greater susceptibility to STIs. This may be because the cervix of teenage girls and young women is not fully matured, increasing their risk for STIs linked to PID. Other potential risk factors include douching, which women should avoid. \n\nIn some women, using an intrauterine device (IUD) to prevent pregnancy can also cause PID. Rarely, PID results from gynecological procedures or surgeries. The usual causes of PID are bacteria that cause STIs such as chlamydia or gonorrhea. Other bacteria and even more than one kind of bacteria together also can cause PID. \n\nIf you have PID, your health care provider will prescribe antibiotics that can kill bacteria suspected of causing the disease. Many different bacteria may cause an episode of PID. Therefore, your health care provider will prescribe antibiotics (generally two at once, by injection or by mouth) that are effective against a wide range of bacteria, including those causing chlamydia and gonorrhea. If your symptoms continue or if an abscess does not go away, you may need surgery. \n\nComplications of PID such as chronic pelvic pain and scarring are difficult to treat, but sometimes they improve with surgery. \n\nYour sex partner may be infected with bacteria that can cause PID even without symptoms. Indeed, many women with PID caused by STIs have sex partners who have no symptoms and don’t know they’re infected.  The surest way to avoid transmission of STIs is to abstain from sex or to be in a long-term mutually monogamous relationship with a partner who has been tested and isn’t infected. Condoms, when used consistently and correctly, can reduce your risk of getting chlamydia and gonorrhea. \n\nIn addition, you can protect yourself from PID by getting treated quickly if you do get an STI. The most common preventable cause of PID is an untreated STI, mainly chlamydia or gonorrhea. CDC recommends yearly chlamydia testing of all sexually active women age 25 or younger and of older women with risk factors for chlamydial infections (those who have a new sex partner or multiple sex partners). If you have had chlamydia, you also should be re-tested several months after completing treatment so you can be re-treated, if necessary. \n\nWithout treatment, PID can cause permanent damage to the female reproductive organs. Infection-causing bacteria can silently invade the fallopian tubes causing normal tissue to turn into scar tissue. This scar tissue blocks or interrupts the normal movement of eggs into the uterus. If your fallopian tubes are totally blocked by scar tissue, sperm cannot fertilize an egg and you become infertile. Infertility also can occur if the fallopian tubes are partially blocked or even slightly damaged. About one in eight women with PID becomes infertile.\n\nIn addition, a partially blocked or slightly damaged fallopian tube may cause a fertilized egg to remain in the fallopian tube. If this fertilized egg begins to grow in the tube as if it were in the uterus, it is called an ectopic or tubal pregnancy. An ectopic pregnancy can rupture the fallopian tube causing severe pain, internal bleeding, and even death.\n\nScarring in the fallopian tubes and other pelvic organs can also cause chronic pelvic pain (pain lasting for months or even years). You are more likely to suffer infertility, ectopic pregnancy, or chronic pelvic pain if you have
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People might still have careless sex but the awareness of these diseases seems to have tripled. Along with all the funding it takes to run commercials and visit schools in the name of educating people about STD's. I think teens might always be a little careless but as an adult it seems to me that the people in my age group would all rather keep one partner as opposed to having many sexual partners. Like back in the 80's nobody used condoms. As a matter of fact if you could find some numbers on condom sales you might be able to draw on those numbers to back your point up. I also think some people would just as soon pick up a toy or a magazine as opposed to sleeping with someone and catching something. Perhaps that also contributes to the rise in the porn industry.
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have u recently had unprotected sex?it could be chlamidya.get checked out
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Am I the only person from the medical field answering this question? Must be.\n\nChlamydia, can in fact lay dormant. Most common in men do these things stay hidden. However It is a BACTERIA... when a woman is pregnant her hormones are inbalanced and she coudl have easily fell prey to this bacteria. It has happened before...\n\n"Chlamydia is known as a "silent" disease because about three quarters of infected women and about half of infected men have no symptoms." \n\nYou wont find the answer to your problems here though...
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Depends on what you consider common to be.  About 1% of the US population has HIV now.  That's not common in my book but I wouldn't want to have unprotected sex with that one out of a hundred.  About 25% of women in the US have herpes II - thats really common.  About 20% of men have herpes II.  About 0.5% of the US population has hepatitis C.  Again not common but very deadly if you get it.  Interestingly, bacterial stds like syphillis etc. are less prevalent in this day and age of antibiotics, even though casual sex is much more common than it was 50 or 100 years ago.
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Chlamydia itself does not cause infertility.  Chlamydia, if left untreated, can cause something called Pelvic Inflammatory Disease.  If PID goes untreated can lead to pelvic scarring.  In otherwords, after the disease is gone scar tissue builds up in the pelvic cavity and can block the Fallopian Tubes, thus rendering the female infertile.  How long that process takes depends on the person.
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Pregnancy, hiv, clamidia, other std's. Please use a condom. You never know where someone else has been.
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sexa nd how it leads 2 aids, sex first tho, tell about aids wen a lil bit older
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There really is no specific age group for this serious condition. It is easily transmitted by blood or other bodily fluids. There is treatment but no cure. Emergency medical workers fear this as much as HIV.
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I waited until I was married (when I was 27) - and wow was it worth it!\n\nBut unfortunately (in my opinion) too many people are engaging in sexual activity at a younger age - I'd be surprised (by hey I am old) if it was lower than 14.\n\nThis has been linked to the rise of sexual transmitted diseases, abortions and loss of fertility (due to chlamydia).  I also believe (from friends who work in counselling) that it has a knock-on effect on people's self-esteem.  But I'm sure people will rubbish me.\n\nThe real question isn't "is this the norm" but "what is the best".
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I am 24 and will turn 25 next week.  I have SB and walk pretty much just fine.  My problems are mainly with my kidneys & bladder.  I do stumble sometimes and walk into things that I KNOW are right in front of me, but I figure it could be a lot worse, so I don't mind.
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hey hun, as weird as this is, i'm going through the EXACTLY same problem! my bf and i went on a break, and we both met other people, then we got back together, and I was noticing some weird stuff about my body, and get checked, and he did too just in case, he had Chlamydia and I had some Fungus infection.  The doc gave him Chlamydia anit biotics..and mine doc gave me the same things, just in case, as well is a treatment for my infection.  so, it IS possible for you to not get it from him, especially cause me and my bf had sex without a condom and, i still didn't get it.weird eh? but yes, it's possible..just let your doc know you want the meds for chlamydia..hope i could help!
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Chlamydia is easily curable with antibiotics.  Yes you can get pregnant if you HAVE it or you've HAD it.\n\n:)