For The Treatment of Chlamydia in Men, Azithromycin Is Not The Best

Antibiotics are used the most to cure chlamydia, and azithromycin is one main type of them. 1 gm of azithromycin by mouth is a convenient single-dose therapy for chlamydia. But for the treatment of chlamydia in men, azithromycin is not the best.

Symptoms of chlamydia in men
1. Penis discharges a little clear or cloudy secretion.
2. Feeling painful when urinating.
3. The opening of the penis is buring and itching
4. Testicles are painful and swollen.

Complications of chlamydia in men
In men, chlamydia can result in a condition called epididymitis if it is not treated, it can also lead to sterility. It leads to a condition called reactive arthritis rarely. A variety of conditions, including swelling and pain in the joints that can be disabling are caused by reactive arthritis.

Treatment
As we all know, antibiotics will cause side effect and resistance to drugs, also patients may get the infected again in the near future since they can’t cure the disease from the origin. Latest researches show that genital chlamydia infection can be treated with appropriate herbal formulas as well.

Herbal medicine is an alternative treatment of chlamydia. In the view of TCM, chlamydia is caused by toxic materials and urination disturbance. By adding different herbs in, a complete herbal medicine can contain lots of function such as clearing toxic materials and relieving stranguria. What’s more, herbal medicine can also improve the immunity and self-healing ability. Men can take Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory pill to get a cure.

Preventions
1. Every time when you have sex, please remember use condoms correctly.
2. Do not go back and forth between partners and decrease the number of sex partners.
3. Only have sexual contact to one uninfected partner and remember sexual abstinence.
4. Avoiding sexual contact and go to see a doctor if you think you are infected by chlamydia.

Food can or can’t eat
1.  No spicy food such as pepper, ginger, green onion, garlic etc, for they can make heat in viscera, swollen gums, sore tongue, yellow urine, burning in or around anus and make the disease more serious.
2.  No seafood or stimulating food, like shrimp,  mandarin fish, snakehead, hairtail , yellow croaker, crab and etc, for they can increase humid heat and make genital area itch, it will be harmful to the elimination of inflammation.
3. No sweet or oily food, for example, lard, fat pork, butter, cream, food with a lot of sugar like candy, dessert, chocolate, cream cake and etc, for they can help increase the humid heat and influence the treatment.
4. No alcohol or smoking. For smoking can make the disease serious, nicotine can decrease the binding force of blood and oxygen in artery, alcohol can increase humid heat, also rice wine contained drink or medicinal liquor can’t be drunk.
5. Male patients need to pay attention to the nutrition of diet. Eat more fresh vegetables and fruits to keep bowel movement every day, drink more water and prevent the infection of urinary tract.