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Archive for the ‘STDs’ Category
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
The CDC has recognized April as “STD Awareness Month” and encourages all adults to get themselves tested.
Many STDs are “silent”, remaining hidden until they are later uncovered quite unexpectedly. For example, in the case of many couples, the realization of infertility leads to a discovery of an STD in one (or both) partners.
The CDC offers a list of testing centers at their site: www.cdc.gov/STD. If you have been sexually active with more than one partner (or your partner has been sexually active with other people), getting checked can head off avoidable problems — like infertility and birth defects — in the future.
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Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
Gonorrhea is the most widespread and common of STDs… which makes it a huge risk for couples looking to have children now or down the road. It’s long been known that it can affect fertility; consequently, more fertility specialists are checking their patients for the medical condition.
Unfortunately, gonorrhea has few symptoms. In fact, many men and women have no idea they have the STD until years have passed. Thus, it can “silently” affect individuals for quite a while before being uncovered.
If you’re experiencing infertility and your physician hasn’t recommended you get checked for gonorrhea, it’s a good idea to ask if you could possibly have the disease. It’s spread through any kind of sexual contact, so if one or both members of the couple have had other partners, it’s worth finding out if gonorrhea could be to blame for infertility.
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
A sobering statistic has just been released from WebMD: One in four teenage females has a sexually transmitted disease.
Though it’s not news that girls are sexually active at a young age, especially in American and European societies, what is news is how an STD can affect them down the road.
Although STDs are usually not fatal (though they absolutely can pave the way for fatal infections and complications), they can lead to long-term problems, including infertility. That means a decision to have sex (or oral sex) which is made when a girl is in her teens could have serious repercussions decades later.
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
What you don’t know about can hurt you, especially when it comes to sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) like chlamydia.
According to the CDC, chlamydia is on the rise in the United States (1.2 million new cases were reported in 2008.) Unfortunately, it is often symptomless. In fact, many women have no clue they are infected until they try to conceive and discover that a case of untreated chlamydia has left them with fertility problems.
How can you know if you might have been infected with chlamydia? Though a screening is your only way of finding out for certain, you may be at risk if…
- Your mother had chlamydia. (The infection can be passed to a baby through vaginal childbirth.)
- You’ve had any sex partners who could have been infected with chlamydia. (The more there have been, the greater the possibility.)
- You were sexually active as a teen.
- You have had oral or anal sex with someone who could have been infected with chlamydia.
Even if you believe there isn’t any way that your partners (male or female) could have had chlamydia, ask your doctor for a screening to rule it out if you’re trying to have a child.
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