Chlamydia is a sexually transmitted infection triggered by a bacterium called "Chlamydia trachomatis". This very bacterium not just infects the reproductive organs but could even infect the urinary tract as well as eyes and throat.

The bacteria resulting in Chlamydia can be transmitted by way of oral, anal or vaginal sex. An unborn kid might acquire this illness during vaginal birth. In the recent years the count of humans infected from Chlamydia have amplified manifold making it the most extensive sexually spread disease among the teenagers and youngsters.

If a woman is struggling with Chlamydia, she is most liable to experience itching in the vagina, vaginal discharge, urination along with burning sensation, painful sex, bleeding between menstrual periods, swelling in the rectum and the lining of the eye, nausea, fever and pain. A man afflicted with this may have penile discharge, urination accompanied with burning sensation, irritation at the opening of the penis, inflammation in the testicles, rectum and lining of the eye.

Chlamydia is also called "silent epidemic" because in majority the cases, i.e. 75% in women and 50% in men, Chlamydia will not reveal any indications. This makes its detection not easy.

Successful antibiotics for Chlamydia are commonly accessible. Azithromycin and doxycycline are 2 best and commonly used antibiotics for Chlamydia. Single dose of Azithromycin is used in the cure. Though, if doxycycline is being administered for the cure, then it will have week long dosage schedule.

These two antibiotics have proved to be helpful in the most severe persistent cases too. Erythromycin, ofloxacin, levofloxacin and amoxicillin are a few other alternate antibiotics for Chlamydia. Erythromycin and amoxicillin are the 2 antibiotics found safe for expectant females too.

Chlamydia can be prevented by using condoms, not having multiple partners and by abstaining sex with infected persons. Sex education must ideally be given to teenagers and youngsters to get them alert about the sexually transmitted illness, how they are triggered, their prevention, symptoms and the cure available for these.