Patient's question:
I have some whitehead-like particles on my glans, and they are particularly red and rough. Lately, when I urinate, there is always a white discharge coming out, and it's itchy. I went to see a doctor and they said it's glans inflammation. Please ask: How should I treat glans itching?Doctor's answer:
Hello, this may be a symptom of balanitis. Balanitis is a common disease. It is divided into balanitis and posthitis, and it is called balanoposthitis because they often occur simultaneously. This inflammation can be infectious or non-infectious, and infectious balanitis is more common in clinical diagnosis. The infectious type is often caused by dirty sexual contact, transmitting Candida albicans, trichomonas, chlamydia, mycoplasma, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, or other bacteria. Non-infectious factors are mostly due to excessive foreskin, insufficient hygiene, and the accumulation of unclean substances between the foreskin and the glans, known as smegma, which stimulates the local foreskin and mucosa to cause inflammation.