Symptoms of gonococcal urethritis

Many friends fail to detect their disease in time because they do not understand the symptoms of gonococcal urethritis, resulting in the best time for treatment. We should have a clear understanding of this in order to effectively treat it in advance. Maybe we are not very clear about the symptoms of gonococcal urethritis. Let us learn about the symptoms of gonococcal urethritis together.

1. Urethritis is usually divided into gonococcal urethritis and non-gonococcal urethritis. The main symptoms are frequent urination, urgency and pain when urinating, redness, swelling and itching of the urethral orifice, secretions from the urethral orifice, swollen inguinal lymph nodes, etc. The clinical symptoms plus urine routine, secretion smear, etc. can confirm the diagnosis. Gonococcal urethritis is usually treated with cephalosporins or penicillins, while non-gonococcal urethritis is usually treated with macrolide antibiotics.

2. Urethritis will cause some non-specific symptoms such as general weakness, soreness, back pain, and lower abdominal distension. Patients will feel unbearable burning pain and difficulty urinating when urinating. They will also have symptoms of urgency and frequency of urination. The patient's urethral secretions increase, initially as mucus, which makes the urine turbid, and gradually the secretions turn into pus. It is recommended to go to a regular hospital for a detailed examination, clarify the condition, and receive timely treatment.

3. The symptoms of acute urethritis in women are mainly redness and swelling of the external urethral orifice, with serous or purulent secretions on the surface, acute onset, usually without fever, pain after urination, urgency, frequent urination, dirty urine, etc.; urination frequency is once every few minutes, accompanied by urethral burning and pain, some urine will be ejected into the lower abdomen or perineum, and sometimes only hematuria can be seen in the dirty urine; when complicated with upper urinary tract infection (pyelonephritis), there are shivering, fever, low back pain and dirty urine, sometimes accompanied by gastrointestinal symptoms and systemic symptoms.

4. The clinical symptoms of acute urethritis include mild itching and heat in the urethral orifice and navicular fossa, and some urination difficulties accompanied by frequent urination, painful urination, and urgency. The urethral orifice is slightly red and swollen, which worsens in 2 to 3 days, and the secretions change from thin to yellow-white or yellow-green pus. Acute urethritis is very harmful and changes quickly. After two weeks, it will turn into late urethritis. Its symptoms are urinary irritation, increased urinary frequency, urgency, and pain, and even terminal hematuria. In addition, urethritis patients experience discomfort or dull pain and pressure in the perineum. Late symptoms of acute urethritis appear 2 weeks after the early problems appear. Late symptoms include discomfort or dull pain and pressure in the genitals, aggravation of irritation symptoms during urination (frequent urination, urgency, and pain), and even terminal hematuria.

The above content introduces us to the symptoms of gonococcal urethritis. I believe that everyone has a clearer understanding of the symptoms of gonococcal urethritis. We need to pay enough attention to these symptoms so that we can more effectively discover our disease in the first time and take the most effective treatment method.