Can i get chlamidia from anything but sex?

First of all, Chlamydia is an easy to treat infectious disease that is normally cured by a simple dose of antibiotic. The first thing you should do is get tested by a health care professional.

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U five months prego if u haven't set on no public toilets like dennys or McDonald's or any public restaurants that's another reason how u could get it or less ur baby father had gave it to u but. Old clothing no never herd of that.

You can be born with it if mom had it while prego

Hey New Hope. Your friend does not have to actually have sex to get chlamydia. She could get it from sexual CONTACT with penile fluid. This means that if a penis simply touched her vagina while emitting or being stained with fresh "pre cum" and that penis has the Std then now she has it. That's is the only explanation for getting chlamydia without actual sex. There has to be sexual contact.HON

You really just helped me solve some major issues.. THANK YOU

I am a physician. I have been for some years. I'm absolutely floored by the arrogance of others ( particularly those in the medical field) who suggest there is no other way. If there is anything we should learn in medicine is that nothing is finite or absolute. I have a patient into practice who tested negative, had an accident and was hospitalized for 3 weeks with no sexual contact. He then tested positive after developing symptoms of what was thought to be a urinary tract infection from a Foley catheter placement. It was chlamydia. How is it possible that a patient with no sexual intercourse developed an STD that many are saying is not possible. Could the nurses be doing sexual favors for him? I think not. He was in a high risk environment and somehow got exposed. Things happen. Trust your spouse to an extent and believe that there is always possibility that he may be telling the truth. Is sexual contact the most common cause? Absolutely! But there are other ways, particularly for those in high risk situations or those who work in high risk professions. Keep an open mind and wash up!!

I am 3.5 months pregnant and just found out a couple days ago I tested positive for chlamydia. What I do not understand about it is all the "symptoms" are pregnancy symptoms. I told my doctor about them and she said it was perfectly normal. My last visit to her, I had excessive discharge and she said it was a yeast infection so I got treated. My husband and I have been together for 6years. We have a 2 yr old son and up until now, everything has been fine. I know he has not cheated because he is a prison guard so he works long shifts and when he is off he is home with me and our son. He has no opportunity to cheat due to the fact we are always together and when not he works. So I have wondered if he could have possibly gotten it through blood because inmates are constantly bleeding from somewhere and generally it ends up on the guards whether it is skin or clothes even though they do wear gloves. They also like to spit and throw dung. Nasty people..... But also, I didn't show any symptoms until I was already 2 months pregnant and when I went in for my check up and they got my sample, it was pretty bloody. So i'm curious if the blood from my sample could have messed up the test. We've also wondered if there is anyway one of us could have contracted it with previous partners and it just now became dormant again or something. Not sure if that is possible. But we are both completely baffled by the situation and have no idea how this could have happened seeing as we are with eachother 24/7 minus work hours.

Yes, I also know that you can get it from birds because I was also diagnosed with the same form of chlamydia in my lungs. My doctor specifically told me that it was not the same as the sexually transmitted bacteria.

Hi, I'm hoping by sharing my experience might help others in my situation. Reading some of the other posts in here has given me some hope.
I'm 10 weeks pregnant (3rd child) and got a positive for chlamydia, I told the nurse it must be wrong and asked for a retest and asked my husband to get tested to. I haven't been near anybody else.
We have been together 15 years ( I've never had unprotected sex with anyone else) and neither of us have cheated. I've tested negative with my other 2 children and at my last smear test in 2011 (I checked with the hospital records team as I needed to gather as much info as I could). I totally trust my husband, but this made me seriously question his fidelity and we had a few deep conversations about it.
I really expected his test to be positive, but, mine came back positive and his negative! I cried a lot, because now I have no explanation of how I got it. The nurse said this is so common. Some people can have it but their immune system is stronger and their body fights and sometimes clears the infection by itself.
They said there are so many unexplained cases, I'm not naive, some people will be guilty and trying to clear their name, but if I know I couldn't and wouldn't cheat, I'm just not that type of person.

So, either my husband has passed it to me and his body cleared the infection OR I picked it up somewhere else?

I will have no closure in this matter, but thankfully we have a strong relationship and my husband totally trusts me (and has no reason not too). We will both take the medication and move on. I just hope that other couples can work through it like we have.

I believe there must be other ways of picking up the infection, there isn't enough research and I don't think there will be anytime soon, as all you are told is it doesn't matter, just take the pills and you'll be clear of it.

I'm going to focus my energy into my pregnancy and stop fretting about where this horrible infection originated from.

Good luck to anyone else facing these issues :)

I'm sorry, but someone has lied to you. Sex is the only way to get it.

I agree with you. Same here.

I used to work in a pet store. We had a parrot that was a carrier and a Persian cat that had it in it's eye. I never caught it but was told it was possible.

You are NOT correct--AT ALL!

I believe there must be other ways to get it. A few years back I tested positive for chlamydia and I had never been with Anyone at the time. I had used toys and occasional finger (jobs) I guess. But no penial imtercourse and yet I was accused of being a liar and told I could only get it from a sex partner. When I had not been with anyone period. Some doctors are so stubborn them they want to accept the fact that there could be another way.

Hi can you please tell me how is it possible for me to test positive for chlamydia and my husband test negative