What over the counter drugs can you take for common STDS?

What over the counter drugs can you take for common STDS?My friend thinks he has something like chlamidia, but he don't wanna go to the doctor. He say he have a dicharge but no pain. What over the counter antibiotics can he take to help?

kadel
There aren't any over the counters he can take. He should go to a doctor or call planned parenthood and ask them what to do
If he has chlamidia and gives it to women they can become sterile so he should get treated

loligo1
GO TO YOUR MD

mspixieR.N.
The only STD medication you can get over the counter is for yeast infections.You must see a doc or go to the health department for the chlamydia.If left untreated it can cause sterility.

funnygarcia
Yes please get it treated!
From CDC web site:
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."

In women, untreated infection can spread into the uterus or fallopian tubes and cause pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). This happens in up to 40 percent of women with untreated chlamydia. PID can cause permanent damage to the fallopian tubes, uterus, and surrounding tissues. The damage can lead to chronic pelvic pain, infertility, and potentially fatal ectopic pregnancy (pregnancy outside the uterus). Women infected with chlamydia are up to five times more likely to become infected with HIV, if exposed.

Complications among men are rare. Infection sometimes spreads to the epididymis (a tube that carries sperm from the testis), causing pain, fever, and, rarely, sterility.

Rarely, genital chlamydial infection can cause arthritis that can be accompanied by skin lesions and inflammation of the eye and urethra (Reiter's syndrome).


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Some counties have their own STD clinics for treatment at no cost. Other options: public health, Planned Parenthood, low income clinics, large hospitals with outpatient services.
He must also tell all of his partners to be treated. Women typically have no symptoms until it is too late and scarring has occured from PID.

Antibiotics used to treat Chlamydia are NOT sold over the counter in the US.

Keep yourself safe and use a condom !

mdel
First of all- as a healthcare professional, if it's one thing I hate, it's people who "self-diagnose." Is your friend a doctor? a nurse? Tell your friend that you can't get antibiotics over the counter. He must see a doctor and get checked out before the problem gets worse.

Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments! Learn about different types of STDs and the effects on the body in both women and men. Sexually Transmitted Diseases Info Blog.

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