Gonorrhoea Tests

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Open House has extensive experience in the diagnosis, management, and treatment of gonorrhoea and other similar infections such as chlamydia or mycoplasma genitalium. Our tests, carried out with the PCR technique, are unbeatable, both for their sensitivity and for the speed of results.

Since It is a mostly asymptomatic infection (especially in women or in the throat and rectum), if you have had unprotected sex, you can take a test with complete confidentiality in our physical clinics or using our online testing service.

Gonorrhoea (and Chlamydia) tests

You can perform gonorrhoea and chlamydia tests one week after the risk contact you want to monitor, unless present compatible symptoms, going to our clinics in Madrid or Valencia or using our online testing service, from €95.

The result it is delivered in 90 minutes with our urgent PCR for gonorrhoea at Open House clinics, or normally within 24 – 72 business hours after receiving the sample in our laboratory, through our standard or online testing service. Its sensitivity in genital samples is around 99% and in throat and rectum 90%.

What is gonorrhoea?

Gonorrhoea is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections, especially in the population between 16 and 30 years of age. It is a bacterium that can infect the genitals , throat or rectum.

When the infection is diagnosed early, it is easily cleared by the appropriate antibiotic. Without treatment, it can cause long-term complications term as pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) in women, a painful inflammation of the testicular ducts in men, or it can infect other places through the blood such as joints.

What are the symptoms of gonorrhoea?

Gonorrhoea can be present without symptoms, especially in vaginal, throat, or rectal infections; so whenever you have sex unprotected, the only way to rule out having contracted gonorrhoea is by performing tests.

Most common symptoms of gonorrhoea in men

The penis is the area where gonorrhoea can present symptoms most often, but there are also asymptomatic infections. The main symptoms are:

Most common symptoms of gonorrhoea in women

In the vagina, the infection is mainly asymptomatic, but when it presents the main symptoms are:

Most common symptoms of gonorrhoea in both sexes

In the throat and straight almost every Infections are asymptomatic, but complications can appear in the rectum, such as itching around the anus, bleeding, and pain when defecating. In the throat can cause symptoms of pharyngitis.

How is gonorrhoea transmitted and when should I be tested?

Gonorrhoea is transmitted performing unprotected oral, vaginal or anal sex, without ejaculation being necessary for this to occur. Since it is present without symptoms, when you have unprotected sex, you always have to get tested for gonorrhoea.

In addition, it is recommended in these situations:

Online Gonorrhoea Testing

If you want maximum convenience, flexibility and confidentiality, this service is made for you. Take your own sample wherever you want with our sample collection kit, send it free of charge to our laboratory and view your results on our web portal.