Sexually Transmitted Infections

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Sexually Transmitted Infections

• Also known as
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• And Venereal Diseases

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Bacterial

• Chlamydia

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Chlamydia Statistics

• Most common United States.
• 1,030,911 actual reported cases. (CDC)
• 50 of sexually active women have evidence of it
  by age 30.

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Chlamydia Effect on Women?

• Female sexual and reproductive organs.
• chronic bladder infections and
• Pelvic inflammatory disease
• ectopic pregnancy
• permanent infertility.

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How Does it Effect Men?

• chlamydia infects
• urethra
• testicles
• Can also lead to infertility

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HOW IS IT SPREAD?

• All types of sexual intercourse
• during childbirth
• Also, in rare cases, from hand to eye and other
  nonsexual contact.

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What are its symptoms?

• pain or burning while urinating
• vaginal bleeding
• pain or burning while urinating
• White discharge from penis or vagina.
• painful intercourse for women
• spotting between periods or after or during
  intercourse

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What are its symptoms?

• Stomach or abdominal pain fevers nausea
• swelling or pain of the rectum cervix and
  testicles.
• fertility problems

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Diagnosis and Treatment

• Chlamydia is diagnosed by a urine or tissue
  sample.
• Luckily, it can be treated with antibiotics.