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New Chlamydia Screening Guidelines

ROUTINE SCREENING FOR CHLAMYDIA--the most common sexually transmitted bacterial infection--IS NOW RECOMMENDED FOR ALL SEXUALLY ACTIVE WOMEN under AGE 25  AS WELL AS ALL PREGNANT WOMEN.  [PREVIOUS GUIDELINES COVERED ONLY WOMEN UNDER AGE 20.]

According to Dr. Janet Allan,  Vice-Chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force  (and Professor and Dean, School of Nursing, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio)

OLDER WOMEN AT INCREASED RISK OF THIS SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE SHOULD ALSO TALK TO THEIR PHYSICIANS ABOUT TESTING.

Dr. Janet Allan: "Chlamydia is a silent disease...until you get the complications; so that, somewhere between 70 and 90 percent of men and women with chlamydia have no symptoms.  We didn't make recommendations for men, but for women out there, you may have chlamydia and don't know it."

COMPLICATIONS OF CHLAMYDIA CAN BE SEVERE in women:  they include pelvic inflammatory disease or PID, infertility, chronic pain, or a tubal pregnancy.  [Infants born to infected mothers can also have severe complications. ]

Dr. Janet Allan: "The real take-home message is this is a silent disease but it's easy to diagnose, it's easy to treat; women, if they fit this risk profile, should please go to their provider or go to a family planning clinic or an STD clinic and ask to be screened."

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Created: 6/5/2001  -  Donnica Moore, M.D.


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