Infertility

The typical symptoms of chlamydia, which usually develop (if at all) about one to three weeks following exposure to an infected person, include painful urination, cloudy urine, abnormal vaginal discharge or bleeding, lower abdominal pain, genital itching, or swollen glands around the vaginal opening.

A urine test provides quick results without swabbing genital secretions.

Annual screening is recommended for all sexually active women younger than 25, as well as women who engage in high-risk sexual behavior.

If the infection is detected, antibiotic therapy can be successful.

However, it is important to remember that treatment does not protect a person against future infections.

Multiple sclerosis Multiple sclerosis (MS) is generally considered as an autoimmune disease in which a person produces antibodies to his or her own tissues.

The antibodies in multiple sclerosis destroy the protective myelin covering of the nerves of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord).

Because these coverings act like insulators for the electrical impulses along the nerves, their destruction results in the characteristic plaques of demyelination along the nerves that produce a wide variety of relapsing and remitting or chronically progressive ne...

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