Symptoms

Cures

• Gonorrhea is easy to get rid of with antibiotics, but if it isn’t treated it could lead to harmful symptoms. The antibiotics medications includes a single 250 milligrams dose of intramuscular ceftriaxone and 1 gram of oral azithromycin. This is known as dual therapy.


• Dual therapy (recommended in the 2010 STD Treatment Guidelines) creates complications for the antimicrobial-resistant organisms to develop. Therefore dual therapy is somewhat resistant to the gonorrhea disease. Gonorrhea can become resistant to many therapies, but not dual therapy. These are many of the reasons why dual therapy is recommended for gonorrhea victims and why it is highly preferred to the other treatments.


• When someone is given antibiotic medication they must take it exactly how their doctor told them to. Since they are antibiotics the rules for taking it are more strict. The person must take the exact dose their doctor gave them. They have to take the medication at certain times. The reason for this is because the mistreat/misuse of antibiotics make the infection resistant to the medication. Even when a person feels better they must take all of the medication. The person also must not give anyone their own medication. Often times both partners are given medication for gonorrhea when one is positive. It is also illegal.