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Gonorrhoea - Management
Antibiotics for pharyngeal gonorrhoea: oral cefixime or intramuscular ceftriaxone
Age from 13 years onwards
Cefixime tablets: 400mg single dose, then 200mg twice a day
Cefixime 200mg tablets
Take two tablets as a single dose, then take one tablet twice a day.
Supply 7 tablets.
Ceftriaxone injection: 250mg single dose
Ceftriaxone 250mg powder for solution for injection vials
Reconstitute and give a single dose of 250mg by intramuscular injection.
Supply 1 250mg vial.
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