What happens if Gonorrhoea is not treated?

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Without treatment, the infection can spread to other parts of the body causing damage and long-term health problems, including infertility

In women, chlamydia can cause pelvic inflammatory disease. This can lead to:

• Ectopic pregnancy (when a pregnancy develops outside the womb, usually in the fallopian tube)
• Blocked fallopian tubes (the tubes that carry the egg from ovary to womb) - causing infetrtility
• Long-term pelvic pain
   

In men, gonorrhoea can lead to painful infection in the testicles and prostate gland, urethral stricutres  and possibly reduced fertility.

In babies, Gonorrhoea  can cause  eye infections in babies if it's passed on during birth.

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