Clamidiosis Treatment

Multipying within a cell, Chlamydia becomes awkward for most methods of treatment. Clamidiosis treatment is complex and should include medications directed against pathogen and medications helping immune system to fight the infection.

Today for Clamidiosis treatment are used combination of antibacterial therapy (modern antibiotics acting within the cells), immunomodulatory therapy and lifestyle change. During treatment patients are recommended to refuse from sex and alcohol. Multivitamin preparations and diet help to treat Clamidiosis more quicker.

After Clamidiosis treatment during several months patients should undergo examinations: females during 1 – 2 menstrual cycles, males – 3 -4 months.
Clamidiosis is a veneral disease and both partners should treat it, otherwise persists high risk of reinfection.

Prevention
Clamidiosis frequently courses without symptoms, therefore people from risk groups (frequent change of sex partners, sex without using barrier methods of contraception) should undergo examinations on Chlamydia infection regularly. It is very important to do that because early recognition and timely started Clamidiosis treatment provides much effective treatment results and improves prognosis.

The prognosis in case of timely started treatment is favorable. Using modern anti-bacterial medications and immunostimulants helps to succeed full recovery in 95% cases.

Clamidiosis Signs and Symptoms

Incubation period is 5 – 30 days, and in most cases clamidiosis courses without symptoms. Sometimes appears pain during urination and little matter released from urethra. Often patients see the doctor when they already have complications which makes difficult clamidiosis treatment. There are two forms of clamidiosis: acute and chronic. Acute form of clamidiosis is characterized with mild course, without damaging lower parts of urogenital tract. Chronic form is characterized with spread of infection to upper parts of urogenital tract which frequently causes complications.

Regular examinations help to detect infection at early stages. Any diagnosis bases on the results of several methods of examinations. Goal seeking of pathogen usually starts after examination by the specialist (urologist, gynecologist, venereologist, andrologist). For example, in case of female infertility , unprompted misbirths, cervical erosion, inflammatory diseases in genital tracts, severe course of past pregnancies, is prescribed complex of diagnostic maneuvers to find sexually transmitted infections including clamidiosis. In males major symptom which would make the doctor suspect clamidiosis is prostatitis and urethritis, condylomata urethra opening. Examination may be performed in patients who had casual sex.

Primary examination makes specialist. In case he finds damages in reproductive system, he may suspect clamidiosis and suggest patient to undergo advanced examination to detect and confirm provisional diagnosis.

Matter for the investigation in females is scrape from surface of uterine cervix, urinary tract, vaginal discharges. In males for the investigation is taken sperm. Commonly are taken blood and urine. Modern methods (for example, Polymerase Chain Reaction) help to affirm with high precision if chlamydia was found or not in the obtained matter, and based on that specialist says the diagnosis. Using all the data obtained, including primary examinations data, the specialist prescribes treatment.

Clamidiosis

Clamidiosis is a most common sexually transmitted infection. Chlamydial infection occurs 2- 3 times more often than gonorrhea. According to statistics, around 5 – 10% sexually active people are carriers of this dangerous infection. Clamidiosis pathogen is Chlamydia trachomatis, which is a transitional form between bacteria and viruses. Chlamydia lives in a living cell like virus does, but has structure similar to bacteria. Such duplicity of nature makes this pathogen stand against immunity of infected person and resist the treatment.

Stages of Chlamydia life:
1. infectious stage, when it lives out of cell
2. reticular stage, when it lives in cell being a cell parasite

Chlamydia life cycle equals two days. When chlamydias multiply in cells, they fill whole cytoplasm and destroy the cell. Then they emerge in intercellular space and enter other cells. Thus cycle repeats over and over again.

Ways of infection transmission:

• sex
• baby infection during pregnancy
• baby infection through genitals during childbirth

There were rare cases of Chlamydia infection transmission via bed and body clothes.

What are the dangers of clamidiosis?
The danger of clamidiosis is that it courses without symptoms. Longtime unrecognized chlomydia in the body may lead to serious complications. In males clamidiosis results in prostate gland damage (prostatitis), seminal vesicles inflammation (vesiculitis), epididymis inflammation (epididymitis) , and even male infertility. Spreading through urinary tract, chlamydia causes cystitis. In females chlamydia causes cervical ectropion, vaginitis. Often chlamydias enter salpinges where they cause inflammation development which then leads to cicatrical changes and results in female infertility.

Clamidiosis damages not only urogenital system in a man. Remaining in human body without treatment, chlamydias gradually spread through the whole body and damage internals and joints, and even eyes. Infected mother may become sourse of infection for her baby. Chlamydia may cause misbirth, non-developing pregnancy, etc. Intrauterine infection of fetus may cause multiple damage of internals. Often after birth in baby are revealed various pathologies caused by chlamydia.

Unfortunately, clamidiosis may cause Reiter's syndrome. This rare disease is characterized with simultaneous development of arthritis, conjunctivitis and urethritis (urinary tract inflammation). In some cases occurs skin inflammation. Those conditions appear after past chlamydia infection. Nature of the disease is not known yet. It is known that under influence of chlamydia may occur changes in immune system which leads to production of “false” antibodies directed against proper cells.