Sexual health researchers in the US are concerned about the increasing resistance of Gonorrhoea to common antibiotics. The CDC (Centres for Disease Control and Prevention) released information last month that was collected on the topic in 2009 and this information listed all of the common treatments that gonorrhoea was now resistant to. Doctors are now prescribing the only remaining treatments known to fight gonorrhoea and information collected in 2010 shows early signs of resistance among these treatments too. The antibiotics fall under a category of antibiotics known as cephalosporins.
According to the CDC, gonorrhoea has the potential to cause very serious health problems if left untreated. The Online Clinic will normally prescribe Cefixime to treat gonorrhoea and we have yet to have case that did not respond to medication but the evidence from wider prescribing and retesting suggests around 10% resistance in the UK. If the infection was contracted in the Far East then there is a higher chance of that strain being resistant; this stems from the overuse of antibiotics in the region.