Primary prevention
The primary prevention of this infection can be achieved through health education. The best method is abstinence to the moment of marriage and when there is only one partner/partner, healthy. If this recommendation is respected, moral precepts or realize a proper sexual education and promotion of condom use can be reduced/eliminated all sexually transmitted infections and not just Chlamydia spp infections. Through information programmes at population or individual level, discussions with the patient/patient should be transmitted to attempt changes in risk behaviour which could lead to a decrease in transmission.
Secondary prevention
Secondary prevention includes detecting and treating infected people.
- Detection can be achieved by testing people with suggestive or asymptomatic symptoms. Asymptomatic persons who should be tested are primarily partners of sick people and people at risk of illness, due to their behaviour. The detection of cases can be performed during clinical consultations and during the anamnesis being suggested either by certain symptoms or by the presence of risk factors.
- Patients with a positive result should be treated. All sexual partners of the positive patient are required to be informed, tested and treated (as appropriate).
- An effective method of reducing reinfections is the annual screening of sexually active adolescents; The test can be done noninvasively using as a urine-investigating product.
To prevent the spread, infection but also important side effects, CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) recommends that all women sexually active, younger than 25 years of age participate in the annual screening for infection Chlamydia.
Lung X-ray is recommended at the age of three weeks and again after 12-18 weeks of life to exclude subclinical chlamydia pneumonia in the newborn mother with untreated Chlamydia genital infection.
Vaccination
There is no vaccine for these conditions.
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