Chlamydia 3
Imagine for a moment that you and two of your buddies are at a club with fast music, fast women and cheap thrills around to have a lot of fun with. You're dancing, having a good time and hanging out with your friends. You aren't the designated driver and you want to have a few beers to make the night a little better, as you get a few in you the girls at the club start to look better and better with each passing minute and drink. You and your buddies go over to mingle with a few of the new found "pretty" girls, you're talking, laughing and having a good old time. All of a sudden the conversation shifts from "so, what do you do", to "so, where do you want to go after this." You and your buddies hastily and quickly get in the car and follow them to their place without a care in the world. While there you and your buddies have a few more drinks and flirt some more with the other women, as the night goes on, so do your other friends and their female counterpart, well needless to say all of you end up in the beds of the women, only one problem, nobody has brought protection, no big deal, right? The next day you are all making your brags about what you did the night before with "your" girl. That night as you are going to bed you
There are two facts which are particularly troubling though. First, up to 70 percent of women who are infected don't know they are because they lack signs or symptoms. (The same is true for up to 30 percent of affected men.) Also, the prevalence of Chlamydia is highest among sexually active women less than 20 years of age. "Without signs or symptoms, people aren't aware that they have a problem until they develop complications". Among men, these include: Burning during urination, Discharge from penis, or inflammation and pain in the testicles. Among women, these include: pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), ectopic pregnancy, infertility, and dangerous complications during pregnancy and birth. Furthermore, if a woman is pregnant and not treated, her baby has a 50-50 chance of developing conjunctivitis (an inflammation of the eyes which threatens eyesight), and a 20 percent chance of pneumonia. Chlamydia can also lead to premature birth or low birth weight. This is very unfortunate because Chlamydia is the easiest STD to treat. Doctors can prescribe a single dose of an antibiotic (azithromycin), or other antibiotics which eliminate the disease within a week". When signs of a Chlamydia infection do occur in women, they include: increased vaginal discharge, painful urination, unusual vaginal bleeding, bleeding after sex and lower abdominal pain. According to the New York State Department of Health, "People increase their risk when they acquire a new sexual partner, have more than one partner, have sex with someone who is known to have had other partners, or do not use contraceptives, such as condoms." Chlamydia is easily confused with gonorrhea because the symptoms of both diseases are similar, and they often occur together. Until recently, the only way to diagnose chlamydia was to take a sample from a patient's genital area and attempt to grow the organism in specialized tissue culture in the laboratory. Although still considered the most definitive t
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