Patient's question:
Why is my life so miserable? I have always been very healthy, and my sex life is also very normal. I only have one sexual partner, my lover. Suddenly one day, I felt itchy on my glans, and upon careful examination, I found it was balanitis. What could be the reason?Doctor's answer:
Infectious and non-infectious, clinically, infectious balanoposthitis is more common. Balanoposthitis can be caused by infectious and non-infectious factors. Due to unclean sexual activity, it can lead to balanoposthitis by transmitting Candida albicans, Trichomonas vaginalis, Chlamydia, Mycoplasma, and Neisseria gonorrhoeae (Neisseria gonorrhoeae). Non-infectious factors are often due to excessive foreskin, insufficient hygiene, and the accumulation of unclean substances between the foreskin and glans, known as smegma, which can cause inflammation of the local foreskin and mucosa.