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Chlamydia in men — Symptoms and treatment of chlamydia

Chlamydia in men is one of the most common diseases that is transmitted only sexually. The causative agent is the organism chlamydia, which is shaped like a ball. The complexity of the diagnosis and treatment of disease caused by this microorganism, is that chlamydia doesn't belong to viruses or bacteria. Chlamydia is a parasitic agent that is an intracellular parasite and multiplies.

The risk of infection with chlamydia is that with reduced immunity chlamydia is able to infect not only the urogenital system, but also cardiovascular, respiratory, musculoskeletal. Almost 80% are infected with chlamydia are facing problems with conceiving a child. There are cases when a child born from infected parents has a number of abnormalities of a physiological nature.

Symptoms of chlamydia in men

Chlamydia in men is very difficult to diagnose in the early stage of infection, because the symptoms for a long time absent. Incubation period after infection is 1 to 4 weeks. Unsuspecting of anything male, at this time continues to infect others during sexual intercourse.
Disease in recent years have become "younger". If early infection with chlamydia was observed among women and men aged 20 to 40 years, are meeting today at the age of 13-17 years.

Household infection with chlamydia is unlikely due to the fact that outside the human body it can not live. Very small probability of infection when visiting public facilities, public toilets and the use of common household items: towels, dishes, etc.
First signs of chlamydia in men that you should pay attention to diagnose the infection at the initial stage:

  • pain when urinating (sharp and strong),
  • swelling of the testicles,
  • recurrent pain in the urethra, scrotum,
  • recurrent pain in the lumbar region,
  • the appearance of pus in the urine, cloudy urine,
  • meager discharge from the urethra with the manifestation of unpleasant odor,
  • low temperature to 37.5 degrees,
  • itching near the opening of the urethra,
  • pain and discharge from the anus in the case that the contamination affected the bowel,
  • General malaise: weakness, decreased performance.

All symptoms of chlamydia in men are periodic in nature. They can subside and re emerge. Intermittent manifestation of symptoms and their severity weak be the explanation for why men rarely seek the advice of a urologist or infectious disease. And at this time the disease progresses and takes the chronic form.

The consequences of infection with chlamydia

Almost 40% of infertility modern families causes are diseases of the SPT, in particular the share of chlamydia trachomatis accounts for up to 80% of cases.
Primary infection in men are subjected to the urinary tract and outer genitals. The lack of timely medical treatment contributes to the development of the disease, in which infected prostate gland, testes.

The possible consequences of infection with chlamydia in the absence of timely intervention can be:

  • chronic pyelonephritis: when a weakened immune system chlamydia in men fast affects the urinary tract, including the kidneys,
  • orchiepididymitis: inflammation of the testes ejaculatory path narrowed, destroyed the cells that produce sperm, sperm appear abnormal,
  • urethritis: inflammation of the urinary tract with the appearance of pus in the urine,
  • vesiculitis: the defeat of the seminal vesicles, which leads erectile dysfunction and General malaise of the body, of mucus with specks of blood,
  • narrowing of the urethra: inflamed mucosa in the healing forms a scar changes,
  • Reiter syndrome: a disease in which chlamydia in men includes not only the reproductive and urinary system, but also the joints and eyes (urethritis, konyuktivit, arthritis),
  • chronic prostatitis: an infection with chlamydia of the prostate gland, the ejaculatory ducts, the deterioration of sperm, which ultimately leads to infertility.

Chlamydia attached to spermatozoa, depriving them of the ability to move. Toxins allocated chlamydia, produce a detrimental effect on sperm.

If the whole talk about the reproductive ability of men against the background of the disease, we can note a few reasons of infertility:

  1. reduction of sperm count,
  2. the formation of abnormal sperms,
  3. sperm motility is impaired.

Even if abnormal sperm reaches the egg and fertilizes it, the development of the embryo may not be possible, probable spontaneous abortion.

Diagnosis of chlamydia in men

Diagnosis of chlamydia is very difficult. The reason is his nature: chlamydia is a parasitic force within healthy cells. Therefore, to detectinfection by taking a smear from the urethra is almost impossible. Smear only allows to suspect the presence of chlamydia, since in some cases the number of leukocytes in the smear may be normal.

Diagnosis of chlamydia is based on:

  • immunoenzyme analysis,
  • PCR analysis,
  • immunofluorescence analysis,
  • the examination of a scraping from the affected part of the urethra,
  • culture method.

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay is a detection in the body infected by the secretion of antibodies to DNA of chlamydia. This method allows to detect traces of chlamydia and to determine the stage of development of chlamydia. The disadvantage of this method is that antibodies to a microorganism can be present in a healthy person.
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is the most preferred method to study diseases. It is based on extracting DNA of a microorganism. When PCR study subject urethral, cervicalgia smears and urine sediment. The accuracy of the analysis is almost equal to 100%.

The longest method of detecting chlamydia — culture. To detect reaction in the seeding of biological material on a nutrient medium need a lot of time. And assuming that the sensitivity of the material to the environment does not exceed 60%, you can get a false negative result.
When the fluorescence analysis is taken scraping examined under a special fluorescent microscope. In this method, there is a probability of a false positive result because chlamydia can be taken staph or other infection, which is also an intracellular parasite.

Treatment of chlamydia in men

Treatment of chlamydia in men is a complex therapy aimed at getting rid of chlamydia and for strengthening the immune system of the patient.
Chlamydia is very susceptible to tetracycline drugs. They are sensitive to antibiotics during the breeding season: in the phase of reticular cells. In addition, they long time can remain in the extracellular space, which complicates treatment.

Associated with adverse disease factors can cause a change in chlamydia in L-shape, which are resistant to antibiotics. Chlamydia L-shape is capable of transmitting to daughter cells the resistance to antibiotics. Prolonged use of antibiotics possible side effects on other organs. In addition to the tetracycline antibiotics for the treatment of used drugs macrolides.

If after two weeks of antibiotic treatment analyses again yielded positive results, re-assign two-week course of treatment with other drugs.
If you treat the disease only with antibiotics, depressed immune system, so in addition to the main treatment prescribed drugs-herbal.