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Chlamydia Symptoms in Women 
Chlamydia is a sexually transmitted infection (SDI) also called sexually transmitted disease (STD). It is found more in women than men. Chlamydia is generally the cause of most human genital disease. It is transmitted from the infected person to the partner during sex through vagina, anal or oral. Infected mother transmits the disease to her child during vaginal childbirth. It may spreads to upper genial tract in case of both men and women. This causes pelvic inflammatory disease in women and epididymis disease in men. It is also a cause of blindness worldwide. As per World health organization (WHO) report this accounted for 15% blindness in 1995; it reduced to 3.6%. in 2002. Chlamydia Disease in Women is called asymptomatic meaning it is a carrier without any symptom. If undetected and untreated it may cause serious diseases like pelvic Inflammatory disease (PID). PID can in turn into other complications like chronic pelvic pain, pregnancy trouble, tubal pregnancy. The disease in women is called ‘Silent Killer' because it may remain undetected without any symptom for years in 65% of the women. In some cases the Chlamydia Symptoms in Women observed are: urinal urgency, difficulty in sex performance, vaginal discharge or bleeding, abdomen pain, and fever. Chlamydia causes blindness, arthritis, and other complications. 
Blindness – May spread from eye to eye by fingers, using the common towel, coughing and sneezing, eye-seeking flies. By health education and health safety implementation WHO expects to eliminate eye disease caused by Chlamydia. 
Arthritis – it causes reactive arthritis more in men than women Childbirth and prenatal infection – it causes premature birth, conjunctivitis (inflammation of outer layer of eye and inner surface of eyelid), blindness, and pneumonia. 
Screening Recommendations U.S Preventive Service Task force – women aged below 25 American Academy of Family Physicians – aged 25 and younger The American College of Obstetricians and gynecologists – all at risk Centers for disease control and prevention – Universal Screening of pregnant women National Chlamydia Screening Program – more elaborate screening Diagnosis DNA Strand displacement amplification test, Nuclear acid amplification test, Polymerase chain reaction test, Transcription mediated amplification. Treatment for Chlamydia Symptoms in Women Center of disease control guidelines for detected cases: Doxycyclin 100 mg twice daily for 7 to 14 days Tetracycline Erythromycin Ciprofloxacin 500 mg twice daily for 3 days Amoxicillin or Erythromycin for pregnant women Chance of women infected with this disease is 5 times more than men. |
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