7/6/2023 0 Comments Gonorrhea symptoms in throat![]() Occasionally a second course of antibiotics is needed if your symptoms don’t go away or you are found to have a resistant strain of gonorrhoea. With effective treatment, most of your symptoms should improve within a few days. Gonorrhoea is usually treated with a single antibiotic injection and a single antibiotic tablet. It's important to get tested as soon as possible because gonorrhoea can lead to more serious long-term health problems if it's not treated including pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) in women or infertility. ![]() Occasionally swabs may also be taken from the throat, rectum and eye If you do not have any symptoms a urine sample will be collected – you should not have passed urine for an hour. If you have a discharge a doctor or nurse will take a swab from the tip of the penis. If you do not have symptoms a self-taken swab can be taken from the entrance to the vagina. ![]() If you have symptoms it is best if a swab is taken from the cervix (neck of the womb) by a doctor or nurse during an internal examination. Infections in the throat or rectum usually go unnoticed.
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