{"id":1972,"date":"2019-12-01T05:47:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T05:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2019-12-01T05:47:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T05:47:02","slug":"chlamydia-is-common-do-get-tested-and-here-is-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/?p=1972","title":{"rendered":"Chlamydia is Common, Do Get Tested and Here is What You Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"692\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/tubetop-692x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/tubetop-692x1024.jpeg 692w, https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/tubetop-203x300.jpeg 203w, https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/tubetop-768x1136.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/tubetop.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Chlamydia is the most common bacterial\nSTD. If you have sex with an infected partner transmission is fairly high, and\nincubation period is from 5-14 days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Men, women, and babies born through\ninfected birth canals can acquire chlamydia and get ill from the infections;\nhowever, most infections are not symptomatic. It is unclear just how long\nsomeone can have chlamydia with out having any symptoms at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since chlamydia may not cause symptoms, testing is\nimportant if you are sexually active especially with a new partner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When symptoms do occur, they are usually in the form\nof genital pain, itching, and vaginal discharge for women, and urinary symptoms\nin men. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although chlamydia can infect all of the genital tract, the eyes, the lungs, the throat, the bladder, the urethra, and the rectum, it is most common to harbor the infection in the cervix so that is where most testing is done for women. This testing can be done at the time of a pap smear or pelvic exam. In men we usually screen the urine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rectal chlamydia can cause pain or rectal discharge,\nbut in most cases this is missed if not screened. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If a chlamydia infection becomes severe, it can lead\nto infertility in women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Partners should always be treated at the same time\nor re-infection is common. At Women\u2019s Health Practice we routinely offer\npartner treatment for our clients. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chlamydia is the most common bacterial STD. If you have sex with an infected partner transmission is fairly high, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,205,14,12,199,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contraception","category-fertility","category-our-gyno-health","category-gynos-guide-to-sex-life","category-stds","category-the-pap-smear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1974,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions\/1974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}