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Recent studies suggest that chlamydia is a major cause of infertility in women. Infertile women, who in the course of investigations were found to have scarred or blocked tubes, were often not aware that they even had PID. Researchers confirmed that chlamydia was the most likely cause of these silent pelvic infections.

Chlamydias may attach themselves to sperm and travel on to the uterus and tubes on them. Women undergoing artificial insemination or IVF should make sure that their sperm donor has been tested for all sexually transmitted diseases, especially chlamydia. Some doctors recommend that women take two weeks of antibiotics, as a preventative measure, before undergoing these procedures.

"It is interesting to note that the current interest in IVF," says Dr. King Holmes, Chief of Medicine at Seattle's Harbour View Medical Center, "is in some part a reflection of previous damage caused by chlamydia and gonorrhea. If the costs currently being put into treating people who already have tubal scarring were even partially put into early diagnosis and treatment of these diseases, the cost effectiveness of our research efforts to prevent infertility would be much greater. That's the bottom line."

Since chlamydia and gonorrhea often co-exist, anti-chlamydial treatment should be included in the treatment regimens for gonorrhea.

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Chlamydia can also complicate pregnancy and be transmitted to the baby during birth.

Chlamydia is the number one cause of conjunctivitis (infection of the white part of the eye) in infants in the U.S. and Canada. It is usually causes a mild infection but occasionally causes severe damage and even blindness.

But by far the most serious outcome of chlamydial infection of pregnant women is that their babies can get pneumonia. Chlamydia is the leading cause of pneumonia among infants in the first six months of life.

The pneumonia is usually mild and can be treated at home. However, 25 percent of the time, it is serious enough to require hospitalization and intensive monitoring. As such, chlamydia pneumonia can be life-threatening and it can also lead to long-term respiratory complications.

One study showed that infants exposed to chlamydia at birth had a higher incidence of ear infections in the first three years of life.

Several studies have shown that a higher incidence of stillbirth prematurity and infant death among women who have chlamydia, but more recent studies show no evidence to support this association.

Dr. Bowie feels that chlamydia infection in pregnant women can affect the pregnancy and the baby's outcome, but only very infrequently.

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As well as causing an inflammation of the tubes (PID) chlamydia can also cause perihepatitis at the same time. Perihepatitis is an inflammation of the liver capsule and the surrounding tissues. It causes the sudden onset of severe right upper abdominal pain, worse with deep breathing or coughing.

Several studies have found chlamydia cervical infections in a large percentage of women with abnormal Pap smear results.

In men, chlamydia can cause painful urination and painful swollen testes. Occasionally, chlamydia can cause sterility in men. It is also known to cause a rare type of arthritis in men. "The main problem with an infection in men," says Dr. Robert Jones of the Indiana University Center, "is that they will continue to infect women."

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The most common treatment for chlamydia is tetracycline or erythromycin, given for at least seven days. Tetracycline comes in two forms: plain tetracycline, which costs about $16.00 per prescription and doxycycline which cost about $36.00. Doxycycline 100mg only has to be taken twice a day. Plain tetracycline 500mg has to be taken four times a day, on an empty stomach one hour before meals or two hours after meals.

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