Patient's question:
Patient is male, 30 years old, and previously in good health. Two weeks ago, he experienced urethral itching and washed it with salt water himself, but it still itched a bit.Doctor's answer:
The swelling and pain of the urethral mouth is actually a warning sign that a man may have a urinary system infection disease, because many urinary tract infections can cause symptoms of redness, swelling, and pain in the urethral mouth. There are mainly the following categories:1. Prostatitis, which is one of the common diseases in men and is closely related to urethral mouth abnormalities. Clinically, prostatitis can be divided into acute prostatitis and chronic prostatitis, while chronic prostatitis can be further classified into bacterial prostatitis, non-bacterial prostatitis, and prostatodynia. In medicine, the symptoms of prostatitis are collectively referred to as prostatitis syndrome. The main urethral symptoms include a sensation of itching and pain in the urethral mouth, dysuria, and a feeling of incomplete urination.
2. Urethritis and other sexually transmitted diseases. If a man experiences redness, swelling, itching, pain, discharge, or pustules in the urethral mouth, it indicates that the patient is likely in the acute stage of urethritis or may have non-gonococcal urethritis and other sexually transmitted diseases. Urethritis refers to inflammation of the urethral mucosa, typically redness, congestion, and discharge in the urethral mouth, abdominal distension and pain, itching, stinging, or burning sensation in the urethra, and may also be accompanied by urinary abnormalities. At this time, complications such as prostatitis and seminal vesiculitis may occur. In addition to causing physical discomfort, urethritis can also lead to premature ejaculation, erectile dysfunction, ejaculation disorders, and even infertility.