Chlamydia and Gonorrhoea Test Kit

A gonorrhoea test allows you to find out whether you have been infected with this common sexually transmitted infection. After chlamydia, gonorrhoea is the most common STI, with over 25,000 reported cases in 2012 alone. Getting tested makes sense if you've had unprotected sex, or if you've been experiencing symptoms like discharge from the penis or vagina. If you've been diagnosed with a different STI or know that a previous partner has received a positive gonorrhoea test result you should also consider getting tested.

If you know that your partner has had unprotected intercourse with other partners you may also wish to do a gonorrhoea test, to make sure you have not caught gonorrhoea. It's particularly important to consider a test if you are pregnant or trying for a baby. Gonorrhoea can be passed from mother to baby during childbirth, so it's important to know whether the infection is present. Since the infection does not always result in symptoms, a gonorrhoea test is often the only way to be sure you are healthy and to prevent an existing, unnoticed infection from spreading to other body parts.

Both infections are very common and people often get both at the same time.

They're transmitted in the same way, can both be symptomless, and both cause complications like infertility if they go unnoticed.

If you use our gonorrhoea test kit, we'll also let you know if any evidence of chlamydia is found, so you won’t need to take an additional test. If you'd like to get tested for other STIs too, you may want to take our extended STI test.

We offer two types of test kits, a urine test for men and a swab test kit for women. Urine tests are slightly less accurate in women, which is why women are advised to use the swab test version. Both test kits are easy to use and you will be able to collect your sample within minutes.

The gonorrhoea test for men requires that you collect a sample of your urine, using the test kit provided. The test kit contains a leaflet with instructions as well as two plastic containers, one of which you will use to collect your urine. It is important that you use the label included in the package and affix it to you sample, otherwise the lab will not be able to analyse your specimen.

The gonorrhoea test kit for women consists of a swab test, used to gather a sample from the vagina. It is as quick as the urine test and requires you to use a cotton swab. You should avoid using vaginal creams or treatments prior to collecting your sample. Gonorrhoea can be found in the bodily fluids present in the sexual organs. If you have gonorrhoea, the analysis of your urine sample or swab show a positive result.

The test kit is not suitable for gonorrhoea testing in the throat or rectrum. If you've had unprotected oral or anal sex, you should visit your local GUM clinic to get tested.

The incubation period of gonorrhoea lies between 2 and 7 days. The test may not detect an infection which has occurred within the past few days. If you're worried that you may have caught gonorrhoea, you should get tested. If left untreated, the infection will spread. By the time you experience symptoms of gonorrhoea, you may be suffering complications and you may have passed the disease on to your partner.

If you test positive for gonorrhoea, you'll need gonorrhoea treatment. The infection is very easy to treat with antibiotics, which you can get from your local sexual health clinic or GP.

If your result is positive for either chlamydia or gonorrhea, you many need to get in touch with your sexual partners to let them know they may also have the infection:

• You should tell any sexual partners you've had in the last 6 months
• If you haven't had any sexual partners in the last 6 months, you should contact your most recent sexual partner to let them know

Anhy sexual partners you tell should talk to a doctor about treatment or getting tested.

To avoid getting infected in the future, you should try to use a condom whenever you have penetrative sex with a new partner, if they haven't recently been tested.

If you've received a negative test result but keep getting symptoms, you should get help from a doctor. False test results are rare, but there is a small chance that your test may have failed.