Gonorrhea - Female
Alternate Names : The Clap - Female
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Female Gonorrhea Treatment
There are two important steps to treating a sexually transmitted disease, especially one as easily spread as gonorrhea. The first is to cure the infected person. The second is to locate and test all of the person's other sexual contacts and to treat them to prevent further spread of the disease. That is why mandatory reporting has been instituted and has, until recently, held the number of cases of gonorrhea at a low level. However, the incidence is once again rising.
Even though penicillin is effective against gonorrhea, there have been increasing numbers of strains that are resistant to penicillin (they don't respond to penicillin treatment). Because of this, gonorrhea is now treated by a large number of new and very potent antibiotics.
Common prescriptions are one of the following:
- ceftriaxone 125 mg injected into a muscle, one time
- cefixime 400 mg by mouth, one time
- ciprofloxacin 500 mg by mouth, one time
- ofloxacin 400 mg by mouth, one time
- Spectinomycin 2 g injected into a muscle, one time
- cefuroxime Axotal 1 g by mouth, one time
- cefpodoxime proxetil 200 mg by mouth, one time
- enoxacin 400 mg given by mouth, one time
- erythromycin 500 mg by mouth, four times a day for one week
A follow-up visit 7 days after treatment to recheck cultures and confirm the cure of infection is important, especially for women who may not have symptoms associated with the infection.
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