Malicious microorganisms can undermine human organs from within, just as termites with their numerous hordes can dump a huge tree. Find out what chlamydia is and what this disease threatens the representatives of the stronger sex. Information from the article on successful treatment methods will help you to save your health.
What is chlamydia
This disease is diagnosed when an infectious agent enters and enters the human body - chlamydia trachomatis. This microorganism is structurally similar to a bacterium, it also has the properties of a virus, because it enters the cells of the organs and parasitizes them. This complex structure explains why chlamydia in men is a disease that is not easy to cure.
Chlamydia trachomatis in men causes damage to the cells of the mucous membranes of the urethra, the seminal ducts, the oral cavity. This pathogen can affect the conjunctiva and joints, but its main danger is that it seriously affects the reproductive system of a man. With urogenital chlamydia, the disease often occurs as a mild or moderately expressed urethritis, therefore an accurate diagnosis can be made untimely. This later leads to complications and a long process of treatment.
Symptoms of chlamydia in men
After entering the pathogen, there is often no clear manifestation of infection, and the incubation period lasts 1-4 months. An infected person at this time can become a carrier of infection, without knowing it. To recognize the disease, when it occurs in a lethargic form, you need to know the signs of chlamydia in men:
- itches the opening of the urethra;
- scant transparent or yellowish discharge from the urethra, with an unpleasant odor;
- small, sometimes severe pain when urinating;
- urine cloudy, with veins of pus;
- swelling of the testicles.
How is chlamydia transmitted
Infection with this infection occurs during sexual contact, including oral or anal. Chlamydia in men occurs in about a quarter of cases of unprotected sex with a sick person. Such statistics indicate that promiscuous sexual intercourse without the use of reliable means of protection is a big risk, will get infected, get complications and be forced to undergo a long process of treatment. When asked how clamidiosis is communicated through household contact, specialists respond that such cases are rare, but this can happen through hands or underwear.
Diagnosis of chlamydiosis
It is only possible to establish that a person has fallen ill with this disease by using laboratory tests. Analysis of chlamydia is not an easy procedure. Although in the pharmacy and you can meet rapid tests, with the help of which a man can detect the presence of chlamydia, but their accuracy is from 20 to 50%.More reliable data are obtained with such diagnostic methods:
- smear from the urethra;
- prostate secretion study;
- immune response fluorescence;
- enzyme immunoassay.
A reliable method of detecting chlamydia, but requiring a long wait for the results of the analysis, is the bacteriological culture of excretions from the urogenital organs. To date, modern clinics are doing tests that detect in the biological material of chlamydia DNA.These methods include PCR( polymerase chain reaction) and LCR( ligase chain reaction).They are more labor-intensive and require the availability of special laboratory equipment. But the reliability of the data obtained with these diagnostic methods is 95 to 100%.
Treatment of urogenital chlamydiosis
If the results of tests for chlamydia are positive, to fight the causative agent of the disease should be started immediately. The treatment plan should be appointed by a specialist, he will write out a prescription and will monitor the results obtained from the drugs used. An unequivocal answer to the question of how to treat chlamydia is the use of antibiotics that can penetrate the cell membrane and directly fight the causative agent of the disease.
An important component of the treatment process is the use of baths, prostate massage, rectal suppositories. For the speedy successful cure of the disease and prevention of complications in the therapy of chlamydia, immunomodulating drugs are used in men, because chlamydia can inhibit the body's defenses. The complex treatment regimen can include:
- probiotics;
- enzyme preparations;
- adaptogens;
- vitamin complexes.
In chlamydia, the use of medications is well complemented by methods of physiotherapy: ultrasound, electrophoresis, magnetic field, etc. The patient should follow all the doctor's recommendations so that the set of treatment measures gives the expected results. The course of treatment for chlamydia on average is 25 days, after which the man is taken repeated tests. If the test again shows the presence of infection, the treatment process is repeated again, supplementing it with new drugs. After a positive result of treatment, the patient's condition is monitored for another 2 months.
Antibiotics for chlamydia
Without the administration of antibacterial agents to defeat chlamydia trachomatis will not work. The specialist prescribes a specific drug, depending on the severity of the course of the chlamydia in the patient. After using such tablets, the active substance is quickly transferred to the inflammatory focus by blood and remains in an effective amount in this area, disastrously affecting the causative agent of the infection. Treatment of chlamydia in men is often carried out with such antibiotics:
- Azithromycin( analogue - the drug Sumamed);
- Doxycycline( Unidox Solutab, Vibramycin);
- Rifampicin.
Causes of chlamydia
In the vast majority of cases, the main underlying cause of the fact that chlamydia is detected in men are promiscuity. You need to know that the insidiousness of this pathogen is that the body does not develop immunity to it. If, after being treated, do not pay proper attention to eliminating the causes of the onset of chlamydia from the routine of life, you can get infected again very soon. This disease is often combined with other sexually transmitted infections. The consequence of this is that the process of getting rid of chlamydia is very complicated and prolonged.
Video: how clamidiosis manifests in men
Reviews
Alexey, 37 years old : I know firsthand that chlamydia for men is a very annoying problem. For a long time with his wife we want to give birth to a baby, but it did not work. Have passed or have taken place inspection, and to me the diagnosis have put - reduction of mobility of spermatozoons because of a chlamydial prostatitis. This tin! Soon a month as we are treated, money has gone normally so, and nerves - so it is much more.
Anatoly, 29 years old : He finished the treatment for chlamydia. Now I'm waiting for the time to take the repeated tests and finally I want to see in the results that I got rid of this infection! My illness was diagnosed at a chronic stage, when the pain began to appear when urinating, and before that there were no symptoms. I hope, that has cured a clamidiosis completely, in fact medicines cost nedeshevo.
Olga, 47 years old : My man was diagnosed with infection with chlamydia and Trichomonas. He was very tired, while he was cured. Doctors said that such a combination is very threatening complications and difficult to treat, but the selected antibiotics helped. He also began to strengthen immunity at the same time with folk remedies, so that the body recovered.