What to do if a girl's urethra is red

The female urethra is close to the vagina and is more susceptible to bacterial infection. If you don't pay attention to your physical health, you are likely to develop uncomfortable symptoms. So what causes swelling at the urethral opening? What should we pay attention to regarding this issue? Next, let the editor give you a detailed explanation.

1Urethritis in women causes great harm

1. Affecting daily life and work: Because urethritis will recur, symptoms such as painful urination, frequent urination, and inability to hold urine will make patients feel very upset, thus affecting their normal daily life and work.

2. Cause premature ejaculation, impotence, etc.: After suffering from urethritis, there are various uncomfortable symptoms, and these uncomfortable symptoms will be aggravated during or after sexual intercourse. If this continues for a long time, the patient will be afraid of sexual intercourse, which will cause the patient to suffer from erectile dysfunction and other symptoms.

3. Affecting fertility: Long-term urethritis can cause the male prostate to be infected, which can change the composition of semen. This will affect the time of sperm liquefaction and the sperm motility of male sperm, which will naturally affect men’s fertility and even cause infertility.

2What is the reason for the redness and swelling of the urethra of girls?

Redness and swelling of the urethral opening is a major manifestation of urinary tract infection.

Urethritis is an inflammation of the urethral mucosa. The causes of the disease are various. The most fundamental cause is the invasion of pathogenic microorganisms (such as Chlamydia, Chlamydia, Mycoplasma, Candida albicans, etc.) into the urethral opening. In addition, masturbation, smoking, drinking, wearing too tight underwear, long-term cycling, foreign objects in the urethra, etc. can all reduce the immunity of the urethral mucosa, making it very easy to get infected.

Purulent discharge appears at the urethral orifice, which is mucous at first and gradually becomes pus-like, accompanied by redness and swelling of the urethral orifice, mucosal eversion, inability to hold urine, frequent urination, urgency, pain in urination, urethral stinging, listlessness, and in severe cases, chills, high fever, and difficulty urinating.

The secretion of patients with acute urethritis will decrease, and the symptoms such as frequent urination, urgency, pain, and inability to hold urine in the non-acute stage will be alleviated, accompanied only by itching or a tingling sensation. Some patients may have no symptoms. It is often easily overlooked and misdiagnosed.

According to surveys, urethritis is not cured or allowed to develop, 20% of chronic renal failure is caused by urethritis, and nearly 80% of patients with erectile dysfunction and infertility are related to the changes of urethritis. At the same time, because the bacteria lurking in the urethral orifice enter the urethral crypts, paraurethral glands, bulbar urethra, prostate and seminal vesicles, ejaculatory duct, epididymal cyst and testicles, it causes a series of complications such as cystitis, prostatitis, paraurethral cysts, urethral fistula, etc., which are very harmful to men's reproductive health.

3 How to eradicate female urethritis

1. The combined use of antibiotics and organic chemicals to treat urethritis has good results. For female patients with long-term recurrent illness and acute urethritis patients with unremarkable medication effects, medication at the urethral opening can be considered. In clinical medicine, norfloxacin is usually used in conjunction with sulfonamides, and the results have shown satisfactory results. In addition, during systemic treatment, adequate fluids should be replenished. (Note: When taking medicine, you must take it under the specific guidance of a doctor and cannot take it privately)

2. Urethritis can also be treated with both Chinese and Western medicine. The combination of Chinese and Western medicine can treat urethritis more quickly and effectively, prevent its recurrence or development into incurable acute urethritis. Drugs can quickly treat the symptoms but not the root cause, while Chinese herbal medicine can treat both the symptoms and the root cause, achieving very good clinical results in clinical medicine. Both patients and medical staff recognize the method of integrating traditional Chinese and Western medicine for treatment, taking advantage of their strengths and making up for their weaknesses.

3. If there is stenosis at the external urethral opening or inside the urethral opening, urethral dilation or urethral external opening sawing can be performed to treat urethritis.

4What diseases are most likely to occur if you feel discomfort in the urethra?

1. Prostatitis

Prostatitis is one of the common diseases in men and is closely related to abnormalities in the urethral opening. In clinical medicine, prostatitis can be divided into subacute prostatitis and chronic prostatitis, and chronic prostatitis can be divided into three types: bacterial infection prostatitis, non-bacterial infection prostatitis, and prostate pain. In medicine, the symptoms of prostatitis are generally referred to as prostatitis syndrome. Among them, the urethral symptoms mainly include itching and pain in the urethral opening, painful urination, and incomplete urination.

Patients with chronic prostatitis, especially chronic bacterial prostatitis, basically suffer from the trouble of white discharge from the urethra. White discharge from the urethra is actually a common symptom of chronic prostatitis, which is usually caused by excessive secretions due to local inflammation. The phenomenon of white discharge from the urethra indicates that the patient's chronic prostatitis still exists and even becomes more severe. If the white discharge from the urethra cannot be treated effectively, it may cause a certain aggravation of prostatitis.

2. Urethritis and other reproductive tract infections

If a man experiences redness, swelling, pain, itching, discharge, and pustules at the urethral opening, it indicates that the patient is likely experiencing acute symptoms of urethritis, or may have a reproductive tract infection such as non-gonococcal urethritis. Urethritis refers to inflammation of the urethral opening mucosa, which is generally manifested by redness, swelling, hematoma and secretion of the urethral opening, lower abdominal pain, itching, tingling or burning sensation in the urethral opening, and may also be accompanied by abnormal urination. If acute urethritis is not completely treated, it will become acute urethritis. At this time, complications such as prostatitis and seminal vesiculitis will occur. In addition to causing physical discomfort, urethritis can also cause premature ejaculation, erectile dysfunction, ejaculation disorders, and even infertility.

5What are the classifications of urethral inflammation?

Most of the urinary sensation is caused by rising infection. When the body's immunity is weakened or the urethral mucosa is slightly damaged, or the bacteria are highly toxic and have a strong ability to adhere to the urethral mucosa and rise, it is easy to erode the bladder and kidney function and cause infection. Because the female urethra is close to the anus and is shorter and wider than that of men, the urethra of female babies is often contaminated by excrement and is more susceptible to disease.

Then comes the blood circulation infection. Bacteria invade the blood from the infection sites in the human body, such as tonsillitis, sinusitis, caries or skin infection, and reach the kidneys. They first form multiple small abscesses in the renal cortex, and then spread downward and outward along the renal tubules to the renal papilla, calyx, and renal pelvis mucosa. However, inflammation can also start from the papillary collecting ducts with mild damage to the renal papilla, such as crystal damage in the urine, and then spread upward and downward.

It may also be lymph node infection. The lymphatic vessels in the lower abdomen and pelvic organs have many communication branches with the lymphatic vessels around the kidneys. There are also lymphatic vessels communicating between the ascending colon and the right kidney. When the pelvic organs are inflamed, appendicitis and colitis occur, the bacteria can also infect the kidney function from the lymph nodes. This type of infection is much rarer, and even whether it exists is still controversial.