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Symptoms may occur within 2–10 days after sex depending on the site infected.
Vaginal symptoms may include:
Penile symptoms may include:
Gonorrhoea in the anus and throat usually has no symptoms. However anal infections can occasionally cause rectal pain, bleeding and/ or mucous discharge.
Gonorrhoea can be diagnosed by a urine swab test.
Gonorrhoea is passed on by having oral, vaginal or anal sex without a condom, with someone who has the infection.
Gonorrhoea is treated with antibiotics. This is usually a single dose of an antibiotic by injection and an oral antibiotic. Symptoms, if any, will usually resolve shortly after commencing antibiotics.
It is important not to have any sexual contact for 7 days after you start treatment, as you may be at risk of passing gonorrhoea to your sexual partners or becoming re-infected.
All sexual partners in the last 2 months should be tested regardless of symptoms.
You may be reinfected from untreated partners therefore it is important to avoid sex until previous partners have been tested and/ or treated.
