Gonorrhea - Male

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Male Gonorrhea Treatment

There are two aspects of treating a sexually-transmitted disease, especially one as easily spread as gonorrhea. The first aspect is to cure the affected person. The second is to locate and test all of the other sexual contacts and to treat them to prevent further spread of the disease. Mandatory reporting has, until recently, held the number of cases of gonorrhea at a low level. However, the incidence is rising.

Beginning about the time of the Vietnam war, antibiotic-resistant strains of gonorrhea appeared in the United States. These resistant strains have been increasing over the last few years. Because of this, new treatments have now been recommended by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Instead of the standard penicillin treatment, gonorrhea is now treated by a large number of new and very potent antibiotics.

This treatment regimen includes using one of the following:

• ceftriaxone, 125 mg (milligrams) injected into a muscle, one time
• cefixime, 400 mg by mouth, one time
• ciprofloxacin - oral, 500 mg by mouth, one time
• ofloxacin - oral, 400 mg by mouth, one time
• Spectinomycin, 2 grams injected into a muscle, one time
• cefuroxime Axotal, 1 gram by mouth, one time
• cefpodoxime proxetil, 200 mg by mouth, one time
• enoxacin, 400 mg given by mouth, one time
• erythromycins - oral, 500 mg by mouth, four times a day for one week