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Chlamydia
by concern_mother, Apr 26, 2008 11:08AM
Hello!
I have the bigest concern in my life. I had chlamydia when I was yunger by my daughters father... Years after I had my daughter. My daughter is now 10 years old. She never been sexualy abuse or anything and it's confirmed by the doctors but she have chlamydia. How a 10 years old child that has't been touch by any men can get chlamydia???? Now I have to stop working and stop my entire life to supervise her 24/7... No one is telling me where she got that but the only thing they want to put on my doughters and my head it's that she got rape when she didn't. Can someone explain this to me? Can she may had it from a dirty bathroom on school or public bathrooms? I am extreamly desperate.... please someone tell me something!!!!
I have the bigest concern in my life. I had chlamydia when I was yunger by my daughters father... Years after I had my daughter. My daughter is now 10 years old. She never been sexualy abuse or anything and it's confirmed by the doctors but she have chlamydia. How a 10 years old child that has't been touch by any men can get chlamydia???? Now I have to stop working and stop my entire life to supervise her 24/7... No one is telling me where she got that but the only thing they want to put on my doughters and my head it's that she got rape when she didn't. Can someone explain this to me? Can she may had it from a dirty bathroom on school or public bathrooms? I am extreamly desperate.... please someone tell me something!!!!
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She wouldn't have gotten it from you during birth if you had it years prior to her, and you were treated. Also, if she had it at delivery, she would have been sick.
My guess is you were probably tested during pregnancy anyway.
Maybe you should take her to a counselor, or someone she can trust who can talk to her about sexual abuse. Maybe she's just afraid to tell you about it.
I wish you and your daughter the very best.
AJ
There are such things as false positives, but I have a hard time believing a medical professional would swab someone with a previously used swab. The only way a swab could have been infected with chlamydia is if someone else had been tested for chlamydia with that swab. Since that swab should have immediately been placed in the testing medium, which is in a vial, and taken to the lab, I can not see how the doc would have swabbed your daughter with a previously used swab.
Something must be going on, or you wouldn't have had your 10 year old tested for chlamydia in the first place.
I am NOT saying your daughter was sexually abused, but sexual abuse can consist of rubbing genitals, and that would have left everything intact, but still be able to transmit chlamydia.
You will chose to do what you want, and believe what you want, but it might be worth a confirmation test to make sure that the second test wasn't a false negative, instead of the first one being a false positive.
Also, has anyone talked to your daughter about all this? Has she said she's been touched inappropriately? If she has, I urge you to believe this.
AJ
However, if any genital to genital rubbing had occured, that could transmit chlamydia.
AJ