There are a variety of effects that differ between the sexes and in their severity.
Women's symptoms may include:
Men's symptoms may include:
However, approximately 75% of women and 50% of men do not experience any symptoms at all, which is why it is so important to test for chlamydia. However, the mere absence of symptoms does not indicate that the disease is unimportant. Chronic infections can lead to infertility (blocking the Fallopian tube in women), or further diseases such as pelvic inflammatory disease. About 15% of females with chlamydia get PID, and about 15% of those will become infertile.
If untreated, chlamydial infections can progress to serious reproductive and other health problems with both short-term and long-term consequences. Like the disease itself, the damage that chlamydia causes is often "silent."
Chlamydia does not affect the outside of your body, and shows no external signs other than red eye if you get chlamydial conjunctivitis.
Chlamydia does not affect the accuracy of a chlamydia test.
Chlamydia trachomatis, the bacterium that causes the STD known as chlamydia, does not affect any animal other than humans. Other types of chlamydia, such as Chlamydia psittaci, affect animals.
Vitamins will not affect treatment for chlamydia. You can continue them.
Occasionally chlamydia can also affect other parts of the body, including the throat and eyes. Chlamydia often has no symptoms, especially among women.
Chlamydia does not affect your pubic hair.
Chlamydia affect homeostasis by causing inflammation in the area that it has infected.
No, HPV doesn't affect the accuracy of chlamydia tests.
Chlamydia is not life-threatening. It can affect future fertility.
The fallopian tubes can get scarred do to chlamydia.
Chlamydia can infect the cervix and cause inflammation in the cervix, but does not do long-term damage to the cervix. Chlamydial scarring occurs in the fallopian tubes and in the pelvis, if permanent damage occurs.
Chlamydia does not affect your lips. You can get chlamydia infection of the throat, though.