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If you have chlamydia in your vagina does that mean you have it in your throat?
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∙ 10y ago
Chlamydia doesn't infect the tissues of the mouth, although it can infect the throat. If you have given someone oral sex, be sure to ask your health care provider to test you for chlamydia in the throat.
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 10y agoTo know if you have chlamydia in your throat, you need to get a throat swab.
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∙ 10y agoPeople get chlamydia in their throats from oral sex.
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∙ 10y agoA positive vaginal test for chlamydia doesn't tell you whether you're infected in your throat.
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∙ 9y agoIf you had receptive oral sex with someone with chlamydia, you may have it in your throat. If you did not, then you won't have chlamydia in your throat just because you have it genitally.
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∙ 10y agoYes, you can get tested for pharyngeal chlamydia, but availability varies. Contact your health care provider's office to check on availability.
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∙ 10y agoYes, both gonorrhea and chlamydia can infect your throat. Some patients may have a mild sore throat, and others will have no symptoms.
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∙ 9y agoIf you had oral sex and vaginal sex with someone who gave you chlamydia, you probably have it in the throat, too.
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What is the portal of entry for chlamydia?
The portals of exit for chlamydia are the urethra, vagina, and rectum.
Can you get chlamydia on your face?
Chlamydia can infect the vagina, urethra, rectum, eyes, and throat. It can't infect the face.
Can chlamydia affect your lips?
Chlamydia does not affect your lips. You can get chlamydia infection of the throat, though.
How do you get tested for chlamydia in your throat?
A special chlamydia throat swab tests for chlamydia in your throat.
How does chlamydia in your throat affect your body?
Chlamydia can infect the cervix and cause inflammation in the cervix, but does not do long-term damage to the cervix. Chlamydial scarring occurs in the fallopian tubes and in the pelvis, if permanent damage occurs.
Can you get chlamydia from body fluids being on or near your vagina but not in?
Yes, you can get infected with chlamydia even if he doesn't ejaculate inside you. Chlamydia can be spread by semen, vaginal discharge, or preejaculate fluid in or near the vaginal, urethra, or anus, as well as the throat and eyes.
Where are specimens taken from for a chlamydia culture?
Samples are collected from one or more of these infection sites: cervix, vagina, or urethra in a female, urethra in a male, or the throat or rectum. But chlamydia cultures are uncommon these days. Usually other types of testing are used for chlamydia.
Does chlamydia spread in your own body?
Chlamydia can spread from the genitals to higher locations in the reproductive tract. For instance, in a female it can spread from the vagina to the fallopian tubes and pelvis, causing pelvic inflammatory disease. In a male, the infection can spread from the urethra to the epididymis. However, the infection can't spread from your throat to your vagina, or from your eyes to your penis, unless you transmit the bacterium from one location to the other with your hands.
Can chlamydia be transmitted by vaginal squirting?
It is theoretically possible to transfer chlamydia by mouth to vagina, but it is believed that chlamydia is rarely transmitted to females through oral sex. The reason is that chlamydia does not infect the mouth, but only the throat. It is possible for a male to get chlamydia from oral sex, but cunnilingus and anilingus do not appear to be high-risk activities for transmitting chlamydia.
Can chlamydia linger on furniture?
No Chlamydia can't linger on furniture, areas that could be infected with this bacteria are the surfaces of the urethra, vagina, cervix & endometrium, the fallopian tubes, anus, rectum, the lining of the eyelid, and less commonly, the throat.
Can you get chlamydia from deep kissing?
If the throat is infected it is possible.
Why does your vagina get itchy at night?
you've got chlamydia
