Chlamydia is an insidious disease of an infectious nature. It is caused by microorganisms chlamydia - rounded small bacteria, affecting the mucous membranes of the urogenital organs. The life cycle of chlamydia is unique, unlike the cycles of other bacteria. Therefore, scientists have identified them in a special group, intermediate between viruses and bacteria.
Different strains of chlamydia affect different organs and systems, have their own symptoms and ways of infection. But when it comes to urogenital chlamydia in women, the reasons for its occurrence are unambiguous, so this infection also refers to sexually transmitted diseases.
Diagnosis of the disease
Very often this venereal disease is completely asymptomatic. But even if there is some kind of trouble in the genitals at the level of intuition - this is the reason for a woman to suspect chlamydia. And when there are obvious signs, such as pains in the lower abdomen, atypical discharge from the vagina, even elevated body temperature, you need to immediately carry out a survey.
If several decades ago chlamydia and its causes of appearance in women were poorly studied, then today with the use of new diagnostic methods this problem is being solved. A woman simply has to go to a woman's consultation and make a smear on the microflora. But more often they detect the presence of chlamydia in the body in blood. The reason for the predominance of this method of diagnosis over the others is its high information content.
Causes of Chlamydia
Most often, the cause of chlamydia in women is unprotected sex. Although not all women who have sex with infected partners are ill. The researchers found that only 50% of sexual relations caused chlamydia.
Sometimes the causes of chlamydia in women should be sought in early childhood. The carrier of the disease can be transmitted from the infected mother to the child. For many years the girl does not even suspect about her illness. Chlamydia are detected at random as a result of mandatory examination of pregnant women.
Contrary to the "justifiable" statement of women that they contracted chlamydia through contact with animals or by the way of life, doctors unequivocally insist that it is impossible. Animals are not carriers of chlamydia trichomatis , and, therefore, can not cause a genital infection in a woman. Outside the human body, these pathogens in the external environment can not survive. This eliminates the domestic method of infection.
Consequences of infection with chlamydia
The cause of many gynecological diseases may be untreated chlamydia. It is believed that it is even more dangerous than gonococcal infection. Every year millions of women and men are infected. About 40% of infections are complicated by a violation of genital functions, which results in infertility . Sometimes this disease is accompanied by other venereal infections, which leads to an even weakened organism.
The best prevention of the onset of chlamydia in women is a responsible attitude towards one's health, and especially the absence of a promiscuous sexual life.