No need to be embarrassed about Chlamydia, pharmacist says

Generally, while people think they may have caught a sexually transmitted complaint (STD), they go to have each STD test at their doctor's surgery or a specialist medicinal centre. However, one expert has suggested that trouble over Chlamydia has put some individuals against having such assessments.

Writing on WalesOnline, Raj Aggarwal, who runs Central Pharmacy and is a enter member of the National Pharmacy Association and Community Pharmacy Wales, suggested that the unwillingness among some to have a Chlamydia trial is leading to a rise in prevalence of the condition.

He stated: "The in the greatest degree concerning aspect about Chlamydia is not weakly the lack of awareness about the contagion but that many people may get contacted Chlamydia without knowing it.

"In the at the opening of day stages there are no obvious and observable symptoms. But if it is left untreated Chlamydia be possible to spread to other parts of the carcass and cause more serious conditions."

He in like manner noted that as well as subsistence available in medical centres, a Chlamydia proof can be purchased in a chemist and carried revealed at home. The sample then has to be sent off to a laboratory to exist analysed He also noted that similar to well as being available in of the healing art centres, a Chlamydia test can subsist purchased in a chemist and carried loudly at home. The sample then has to have existence sent off to a laboratory to have existence analysed.
Meanwhile, the treatment for the grade if the STD test proves to be positive is a simple antibiotic. According to Mr Aggarwal, all those who are being treated as antidote to the condition should visit their GP or a sexual freedom from disease clinical for further tests to meet with if they have any other diseases.

Transmitted through sexual intercourse, Chlamydia is caused ~ dint of. the bacterium chlamydia trachomatis. It is frequently called the 'silent' disease because principally of those who get it execute not realise they have it.

Over novel years, infection rates have been climbing. For precedent, NHS figures suggest that between 2007 and 2008, the reckon of confirmed cases rose from 121,791 to 123,018. Those subject to the age of 25 are the principally likely to have the condition.