«Two years ago I successfully treated chlamydia. But now, when examining the pregnancy, the doctor revealed chlamydia again, and chronic. Really this disease is incurable?» - wrote one of the readers. Tatiana Torchitsky's dermatovenerologist Tatyana Torchitskaya is responsible for this and other questions.
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- Sexually transmitted diseases to which chlamydia is actually curable. And chronic forms they take only when late discovery, inaccurate diagnosis and improper, chaotic treatment.
- But how to discover them, if the doctors themselves call them invisible diseases?
- You need to be very attentive to yourself and contact the doctor with the slightest suspicion of infection. Especially if you do not have a permanent sexual partner. Most diseases proceed without special symptoms and make themselves to know when complications are already developing. For example, urogenital chlamydia is quite often the cause of female infertility. Ectopic pregnancy, unbearable, intrauterine infection of the fetus - the cause of all these misfortune is often late illness.
- That is, you need to be examined even with the thrush?
- Undoubtedly. After all, it is not so harmless, as many women think. First, it can be combined with other urinary tract infections, in particular, with chlamydia. Thrush is also a sign that a woman has a reduced immunity or there are hormonal problems. You can install the exact reason only after the examination is not only in the gynecologist, but also an endocrinologist. The thrush can be transmitted and sexually transmitted from men and extremely rarely through personal hygiene items. Yes what is there to say - even syphilis sometimes flows imperceptibly, if the ulcers are not located outside, and on the cervix. After a while, a rash appears, which, too, many are taken for allergic. There are many cases when it is revealed only with a random examination - for example, during pregnancy.
- Than dangerous such infections?
- They are devoting to the health of the woman, because they cause and pyelonephritis, and endometritis, adhesive processes, urine incontinence and that the worst - deprive the woman the opportunity to fully endure and give birth to a healthy kid. Therefore, any unpleasant feeling, redness, itching or rash should be a reason for contacting a good clinic. Preferably - in profile. After all, such infections, and they, believe, the great set are not always correctly determined by the laboratory.
- And if you use the most accurate PCR diagnostics?
- Its accuracy is also not absolute and to a large extent depends on which the test system is used. On the accuracy of the technique of execution, and the tools that the doctor uses.
PCR diagnostics determines the presence of a DNA of a pathogen in the smear. And for research take the surface layer of the cells of the mucous membrane strictly defined thickness - no more and no less. After all, when the fence can damage the mucous membrane and open the gate of infection.
On diagnostics can not save. Especially if we are talking about sexually transmitted infections. Too they are covered with their «secrecy» and severe consequences.
- Many women prefer to be treated. Why it is dangerous?
- Unsystematic, chaotic treatment - not the best assistant in the struggle for health. Because it is unlikely to reach the goal. The process will go into chronic, complications will emerge. After all, only a doctor can determine at what stage there is a disease, which spectrum of microbes is caused and what bodies are amazed. It is usually necessary for comprehensive treatment, including immunotherapy and physiotherapy, as well as thorough local treatment.
