Chlamydia trachomatis - what is this parasite?

What is chlamydia and how to treat it? This is a question that worries a significant part of the population. In the modern world, this infection is detected more and more often. Perhaps this is due to the improvement of diagnostic methods.

Chlamydia trachomatis is a pathogenic intracellular bacterium that often provokes the development of infectious diseases of the human urogenital system. However, it is rather an intermediate link between viruses and bacteria. This feature makes it difficult to treat chlamydial infections, because ordinary antibacterial drugs can not completely destroy them.

Chlamydia trachomatis does not have its own sources of energy - mitochondria, so it has to exploit the cell using its energy resources. Chlamydia trachomatis affects mainly the sexual system of a person. It should be noted that in nature there are about 18 serotypes, and two of them are the causative agents of urogenital chlamydia.

Medicine uses a specific classification, according to which chlamydia trachomatis serotypes DK causes urogenital chlamydia, L1-L3 - leads to the development of venereal lymphogranuloma, AC - causes trachoma.

Bacteria penetrate into the body of a man or woman more often during sexual intercourse. However, they develop their turbulent activity in the body of the first and second by slightly different schemes. In women, the cycle of introduction of a pathogenic parasite and its active reproduction is 42-72 hours, with chlamydia attached to the mucous and causing their inflammation. If the immune system of a woman is sufficiently stable, then the bacteria can be frozen in the phase of the reticular bodies until the immune system fails.

If chlamydia penetrates into the male body, the symptoms appear quickly enough, which is explained by the peculiarities of male anatomy. A man, unlike a woman, is contagious, even in the phase of reticular bodies.

Symptoms of chlamydia become itching, pain when urinating, minor discharge. It is worth noting that the disease often occurs asymptomatically, and the diagnosis becomes unexpected for the carrier. However, chlamydia can be extremely dangerous for women - it is fraught with infertility, miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy. Prostatitis or infertility threatens also male carriers. That is why regular examinations at the gynecologist with taking smears on infection are so important, even with a good general state of health.

In addition to urogenital infection, chlamydia trachomatis can be a causative agent of purulent conjunctivitis, pediatric pneumonia, venereal lymphogranuloma, as well as certain diseases of the nervous system and hearing organs. But these are still more rare cases.

Chlamydia trichomatis is found usually when taking smears of PCR, as well as using serological methods - RSK, ELISA.

If the results of the tests are unfavorable, and chlamydia trachomatis confidently attacked the human body, it remains to tune in to long-term treatment with antibacterial drugs and immunomodulating agents. Innovation in the treatment of chlamydial diseases was the introduction of an alternative method of treatment - extracorporal hemocorrection, which reduces the harmful effects of antibiotics and simultaneously restores the immune system.

Remember, bacterial infections are not a sentence, but their treatment is mandatory. The inflammatory process has the property to spread to larger areas and lead to severe complications.