If you are pregnant, it is important that you talk to your health care provider so that you get the correct examination, testing, and treatment, as necessary. Treating gonorrhea as soon as possible will make health complications for your baby less likely. Some men with gonorrhea may have no symptoms at all. However, men who do have symptoms, may have:. Most women with gonorrhea do not have any symptoms.
Even when a woman has symptoms, they are often mild and can be mistaken for a bladder or vaginal infection. Symptoms in women can include:. Rectal infections may either cause no symptoms or cause symptoms in both men and women that may include:. You should be examined by your doctor if you notice any of these symptoms or if your partner has an STD or symptoms of an STD, such as an unusual sore, a smelly discharge, burning when urinating, or bleeding between periods.
Most of the time, urine can be used to test for gonorrhea. Yes, gonorrhea can be cured with the right treatment. It is important that you take all of the medication your doctor prescribes to cure your infection. Medication for gonorrhea should not be shared with anyone. Although medication will stop the infection, it will not undo any permanent damage caused by the disease. Symptoms can include:. If not treated, your infection can get worse. It can spread to other parts of your body.
It can also cause rashes, arthritis, and infections in your joints, heart, and brain. Gonorrhea needs to be treated with antibiotics. This is important, so it does not get worse and spread. It is contagious. You need treatment so you don't give it to someone else. If you give it to a woman, it can cause pelvic inflammatory disease PID and infertility.
People can have gonorrhea without symptoms. So your sexual partners also need to be treated, even if they have no symptoms. If they are not treated, and you keep having sex with them, you will be infected again. Your sexual partners should contact their own healthcare providers. Or they can go to an urgent care clinic or the public health department to be checked and treated. Take all of the antibiotics you were given until they are used up. Finish the antibiotics, even if your symptoms are gone.
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Contact afpserv aafp. Want to use this article elsewhere? Get Permissions. Read the Issue. Sign Up Now. May 15, Issue. Am Fam Physician. Some people should be tested screened for gonorrhea even if they do not have symptoms or know of a sex partner who has gonorrhea Anyone who is sexually active should discuss his or her risk factors with a health care provider and ask whether he or she should be tested for gonorrhea or other STDs. CDC recommends yearly gonorrhea screening for all sexually active women younger than 25 years, as well as older women with risk factors such as new or multiple sex partners, or a sex partner who has a sexually transmitted infection.
Urogenital gonorrhea can be diagnosed by testing urine, urethral for men , or endocervical or vaginal for women specimens using nucleic acid amplification testing NAAT It can also be diagnosed using gonorrhea culture, which requires endocervical or urethral swab specimens. FDA-cleared rectal and oral diagnostic tests for gonorrhea as well as chlamydia have been validated for clinical use Gonorrhea can be cured with the right treatment.
CDC now recommends a single mg intramuscular dose of ceftriaxone for the treatment of gonorrhea. Alternative regimens are available when ceftriaxone cannot be used to treat urogenital or rectal gonorrhea. Although medication will stop the infection, it will not repair any permanent damage done by the disease.
Antimicrobial resistance in gonorrhea is of increasing concern, and successful treatment of gonorrhea is becoming more difficult A test-of-cure is needed days after treatment for people who are treated for pharyngeal infection of the throat gonorrhea.
Because re-infection is common, men and women with gonorrhea should be retested three months after treatment of the initial infection, regardless of whether they believe that their sex partners were successfully treated.
If a person has been diagnosed and treated for gonorrhea, he or she should tell all recent anal, vaginal, or oral sex partners so they can see a health provider and be treated A person with gonorrhea and all of his or her sex partners must avoid having sex until they have completed their treatment for gonorrhea and until they no longer have symptoms.
Latex condoms, when used consistently and correctly, can reduce the risk of transmission of gonorrhea The surest way to avoid transmission of gonorrhea or other STDs is to abstain from vaginal, anal, and oral sex, or to be in a long-term mutually monogamous relationship with a partner who has been tested and is known to be uninfected.
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