How is Chlamydia treated?
• If you receive a positive result you will be asked to contact the office to arrange for free treatment. • If your test is positive you will be treated with antibiotics. Normally it will be 4 tablets that you can take at once. • We will also request information about your current or most recent sexual partners, this is so they can be contacted either by yourself or by us, this is to reduce the number of people carrying and transmitting Chlamydia. • If you attend with your current partner, we will offer them screening and treatment at the same time as they have possibly been exposed to the infection through you. • If you wish us to contact ex-partners on your behalf we will never mention who gave us the details or where they were from. • Chlamydia is not resistant to treatment, if you take the tablets correctly and do not expose yourself to re-infection we will not need to see you again. • We will follow you up with a telephone call after 7 days. • If you are pregnant, we will always r
