As one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases, treating chlamydia is not easy to be found since symptoms are not apparent and unknowingly passed to sexual partners.
When
infected chlamydia, some female patients don’t care about it because
they think symptoms of Chlamydia are common for women, some others
think: “what happens if I get my chlamydia untreated?” Dr. Lee said
females will run the high risk of several health problems if they get
chlamydia untreated.
First of all, pelvic
inflammatory disease (PID) can be caused by chlamydia infection. And
PID, an infection of the female reproductive organs, is the main killer
for the fallopian tubes, which means fallopian tubes may be blocked
because of chlamydia infection. Then the following fatal consequence is
infertility for women.
Secondly, when patients with chlamydia infection are pregnant, it is easy to result in ectopic pregnancy. Because of the blocked fallopian tubes
caused by chlamydia infection, the fertilized egg can’t implant in the
uterus but developing in the fallopian tube. Therefore, patients have to
bear the huge harm from not only physically but also psychologically.
Thirdly,
ever if it is successful to be pregnant in the uterus, chlamydia
infection may cause premature births which are dangerous for both
mothers and new babies. What is worse, those new babies may be infected
with chlamydia when they born because the infection can be passed along
from the mother to her baby during childbirth. So those new babies maybe
suffer from eye infection, blindness or pneumonia.
Last
but not least, patients who have been infected by chlamydia have to be
troubled by the long-term pain. Symptoms of chlamydia infection include
painful periods, pain when urinating and having sex, abdominal pain with
fever, bleeding during periods, abnormal vaginal discharge that may
have an odor, itching or burning in or around the vagina, which can
influence the daily life severely.
To sum up, it
is not a piece of a cake for chlamydia infection. Dr. Lee suggests women
should go the hospital and have an exam if they are not sure about
infecting chlamydia. And fuyan pill,
the Chinese herbal medicine, is alternative with its efficacy of
eliminating inflammation, killing bacteria, clearing heat and promoting
blood circulation.