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2007-09-27 08:51:46 · 13 answers · asked by gerry 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ STDs
Thats a difficult word to get your tongue around.
2007-09-27 08:55:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
"Chlamydia, a sexually transmitted infection (STI), is not spread by sharing the same bathroom or toilet seats. It is transmitted through intercourse or genital touching when one person is infected. Chlamydia affects men and women. Chlamydia is important to detect and treat because it can lead to serious inflammation of the urethra or reproductive organs, resulting in damage and even sterility. Since most STIs are not skin diseases, sharing bathrooms does not put one at significant risk for STI transmission. "
2007-09-27 08:55:30 · answer #2 · answered by crownreserve 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chlamydia is spread from one person to another by close personal contact such as through sexual intercourse (not by casual contact such as a handshake). It is also spread from mother to child with passage of the child through the birth canal. Chlamydia can cause pneumonia or serious eye infections in a newborn, especially among children born to infected mothers in developing countries. You can't contract it from fomites, inanimate objects like toilet seats!
2007-09-27 11:39:54 · answer #3 · answered by Dr Frank 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How is Chlamydia Contracted?
Chlamydia is mainly passed through sexual activity:
* vaginal or anal sex with an infected partner
* oral sex, although this is less common
* sharing sex toys
* touching parts of the body with fingers (for example, chlamydia often occurs in the eyes)
You can NOT catch chlamydia from simple kissing, sharing baths, towels, cups, or from toilet seats.
2007-09-27 09:15:33 · answer #4 · answered by gangadharan nair 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not possible to get chlamydia from using a toilet. This is a sexually transmitted disease. You can get it through vaginal and/or anal intercourse, and through oral sex [chances of getting it via oral sex are lower if you are the one that's being given oral sex; if you give oral sex to an infected partner, either male or female, the odds of you becoming infected increase].
2007-09-27 11:16:33 · answer #5 · answered by la_nena_sabe... 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
# Chlamydia is passed primarily during anal or vaginal sex. It is less likely to be transmitted through oral sex.
# It can be passed when the mucous membrane, the soft skin covering all the openings of the body, comes into contact with the mucous membrane secretions or semen of an infected person. This is what happens during unprotected sex (that is sex without a latex condom) whether vaginal or anal sex.
# Oral sex is not a common cause of infection with this bacteria. Chlamydia is less likely to be transmitted during oral sex because the bacteria that cause chlamydia prefer to target the genital area rather than the throat. This is why it is unlikely for chlamydia to be transmitted from mouth-to-penis and penis-to-mouth contact, although it is still possible. It is even less likely for transmission to take place from vagina-to-mouth or anus-to-mouth contact. Transmission is not known to occur from mouth-to-vagina and mouth to anus contact.
# Chlamydia can be passed even if the penis or tongue does not go all the way into the vagina or anus. If the vagina, cervix, anus, penis or mouth come in contact with infected secretions or fluids, then transmission is possible.
# Even a woman who has not had anal sex can get chlamydia in the anus or rectum if bacteria are spread from the vaginal area, such as when wiping with toilet paper.
# Eye infections may result when discharge caries the disease into the eye during sex or hand-to-eye contact.
# Chlamydia is not passed through things like shaking hands or toilet seats.
# Even if a person with chlamydia is treated and cured, they can be reinfected if they are exposed to chlamydia again.
# It can also be passed from mother to newborn as the baby passes through the infected birth canal. This can result in eye infections, pneumonia or other complications.
2007-09-27 08:55:25 · answer #6 · answered by missourim43 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No you can only contract this infection through sexual intercourse.
2007-09-30 07:20:56 · answer #7 · answered by kl240 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes my health teacher said if you share underwear you could or like share stuff like that with someone who has it....I doubt you could get it from a toliet seat unless they rubbed themselves against it and you are doing the same...but yeah.
2007-09-27 08:58:50 · answer #8 · answered by fawkesthephoenix 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, not off of a toliet seat (no germs pass from butt to butt), but if you were to exchange genital fluids from hands, that would be another way.
2007-09-27 08:55:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, but if you need an excuse, some one before you used the toilet paper and touched the one you needed to use.
(we all hold the one we don't use to pull off the ones we do use).
Good luck.
2007-09-27 08:56:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋