Identifying the best way to use mouthwash directly to the tonsils and the back of the throat is important because these are the two key areas where gonorrhoea is found in the in the mouth.
The EMU study looked at different methods of using mouthwash.
We compared rinsing and gargling a mouthwash with applying a mouthwash with via oral spray.
If mouthwash is shown to work in reducing infectivity of oropharyngeal gonorrhoea, then our findings in this study show that oral spray used 15 times twice a day is a good way to prevent getting throat gonorrhoea compared to rinsing and gargling.
Publications
The sites in the oropharynx reached by different methods of using mouthwash: clinical implication for oropharyngeal gonorrhoea prevention
Maddaford K, Fairley CK, Trumpour S, Chung M, Chow EPF
(2019), Sexually Transmitted Infections,