What can you not do while being treated for chlamydia?

If you're being treated for chlamydia, it's important to avoid sex until 7 days after finishing your medicine. This gives your body time to clear up the infection completely to make sure it doesn't get passed on to anyone.
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What should you not do after taking chlamydia medication?

What should I do after taking the medicine? DO NOT HAVE SEX (vaginal, oral, or anal) for at least 7 days after both you and your sex partner(s) have been treated. The medicine takes 7 days to work. You can get Chlamydia again if you have sex before the medicine cures you and your partner(s).
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What can you do while on chlamydia treatment?

RESUMING SEXUAL ACTIVITY STOP having sex with others until you take the medicine, and DO NOT have sex for the next 7 days after taking the medicine. It takes 7 days for the medicine to work in your body and cure Chlamydia infection.
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Can I play with myself after being treated for chlamydia?

Myth: Masturbating during STI treatment is dangerous

It's safe to self-masturbate while being treated for bacterial STIs such as chlamydia or gonorrhoea. You'll need to wait several days for the antibiotics to work before mutual masturbation.
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What you can and can't do with chlamydia?

You need to take the full course of antibiotics. Don't have sex with anyone while you are being treated. If your treatment is a single dose of antibiotics, wait at least 7 days after you take the dose before you have sex. Even if you use a condom, you and your partner may pass the infection back and forth.
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Do condoms stop chlamydia?

Condoms are 98% effective at protecting against most STIs like chlamydia and gonorrhoea. However, condoms don't protect you from all STIs such as herpes, genital warts and syphilis which can be spread from skin-to-skin contact.
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Can you pass chlamydia through kissing?

Can you get Chlamydia by Kissing? It's a common myth that Chlamydia can be passed on through mouth-to-mouth contact or kissing. As with other STI's, this is not the case: you cannot get Chlamydia from mouth-to-mouth kissing with somebody infected.
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Can you kiss while on antibiotics for chlamydia?

That makes kissing a totally safe and fun activity to enjoy while someone is getting chlamydia treatment.
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Can you reinfect yourself with chlamydia while on antibiotics?

Thankfully, it's also curable. But new research suggests that for some people, curing chlamydia doesn't prevent reinfection, even if they're not exposed to it again. Apparently the disease can live inside your gut, and reinfect you out of the blue.
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How do you know chlamydia is gone?

Chlamydia is a bacterial infection (like strep throat or an ear infection), which means that once you've been treated and tested negative for it (to make sure the antibiotics worked), it's gone.
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How long after chlamydia treatment are you contagious?

After beginning treatment, most physicians suggest that patients with uncomplicated chlamydial infections (cervicitis, urethritis, and/or proctitis) are no longer contagious after about seven days. Tests that detect chlamydia in the urine and in other secretions are available.
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How long does chlamydia take to clear up?

How long does chlamydia last? With treatment, chlamydia should go away within a week or two. It's important to take all antibiotics to fight the infection. Don't have sex during treatment, or you could get reinfected.
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Can you use tampons while being treated for chlamydia?

Sex partners should get tested and then treated if they are infected with an STI, even if they do not have symptoms. Do not douche. Douching changes the normal balance of substances in your vagina. Do not use tampons while you are being treated for cervicitis.
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Why do I have to wait 7 days after chlamydia treatment?

If you're being treated for chlamydia, it's important to avoid sex until 7 days after finishing your medicine. This gives your body time to clear up the infection completely to make sure it doesn't get passed on to anyone.
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How do you know if antibiotics are working for chlamydia?

If you take the treatment according to instructions, it's over 95% effective at treating chlamydia.
  1. You'll be given a course of antibiotics for 3 or 7 days or sometimes up to two weeks.
  2. If there's a high chance you have chlamydia, treatment may be started before the results of the test are back.
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Can chlamydia spread through spit?

You can't transmit chlamydia through kissing, sharing drinking glasses, or hugging. However, you can transmit the disease: through vaginal, oral, or anal sex without a condom or other barrier method with someone who has the disease. to your baby through childbirth if you're pregnant.
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Can saliva carry chlamydia?

Chlamydia isn't spread through casual contact, so you CAN'T get chlamydia from sharing food or drinks, kissing, hugging, holding hands, coughing, sneezing, or sitting on the toilet. Using condoms and/or dental dams every time you have sex is the best way to help prevent chlamydia.
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How do you prevent chlamydia from coming back?

To prevent chlamydia from reoccurring, there are a few steps you can take:
  1. Take all your antibiotics as directed by a healthcare professional, even if your symptoms improve.
  2. Ensure your current sexual partner is also treated for chlamydia so you don't transmit it back and forth.
  3. Clean all sex toys thoroughly.
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Can chlamydia live on sheets?

Chlamydia cannot be spread through objects or surfaces, such as sheets or toilet seats.
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Is it okay to take a bath with chlamydia?

Chlamydia cannot be passed on through casual contact, such as kissing and hugging, or from sharing baths, towels, swimming pools, toilet seats or cutlery.
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Does chlamydia mess up your period?

While chlamydia doesn't typically cause missed periods, less than 25% of people with periods who have the infection may notice abnormal vaginal discharge, while others also report spotting. If you are experiencing either of these symptoms, it's best to check this with your doctor to make sure everything is OK.
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How often does chlamydia come back?

Chlamydial reinfections are very common—as many as 1 in 5 people will have a repeat infection with chlamydia within the first few months after they are treated for their initial infection.
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Can you drink on chlamydia treatment?

The disease may not be cured until all the pills are taken. Azithromycin treatment consists of 4 pills taken all at one time. Do not drink alcohol when taking antibiotics.
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Does chlamydia make you itch?

Most people with chlamydia experience no symptoms. For those who do have them, vaginal symptoms of chlamydia may include unusual discharge associated with itchiness, as well as a burning sensation while urinating.
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Can you have chlamydia for 10 years?

How long can you have chlamydia for? An untreated chlamydia infection can persist for several years. Although this goes for both men and women, it is believed that men are less likely to carry the bacteria for several years. If you remain infected for a long time you have an increased risk of complications.
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