Answer question: 'How to prevent chlamydia?'
What can you tell teens about preventing chlamydia? Check the following information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):
- The surest way to avoid transmission of chlamydia, or any sexually transmitted disease (STD), is to abstain from sexual contact, or to be in a long-term mutually monogamous relationship with a partner who has been tested and is known to be uninfected.
- Latex male condoms, when used consistently and correctly, can reduce the risk of transmission of chlamydia.
- The CDC recommends yearly chlamydia testing of all sexually active women age 25 or younger, older women with risk factors for chlamydial infections (such as those who have a new sex partner or multiple sex partners), and all pregnant women. Health care providers will perform sexual risk assessments to check if more frequent screening is warranted.
- Any genital symptoms such as an unusual sore, discharge with odor, burning during urination, or bleeding between menstrual cycles could mean an STD infection. If you're an adolescent female and have any of these symptoms, you should stop having sex and consult a health care provider immediately. Treating STDs early can prevent pelvic inflammatory disease.
- If you are diagnosed with chlamydia (or any STD) you should be treated for it, as well notify all recent sex partners (those with whom you have had sex within the preceding 60 days) so they can see a health care provider and be evaluated for STDs. Sexual activity should not resume until all sex partners have been examined and, if necessary, treated.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Chlamydia. Fact sheet. Accessed at www.cdc.gov.
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