Burning pain in the urethra when urinating

When a woman experiences burning and stinging pain in her urethra when urinating, it is usually a symptom of vaginitis. Vaginitis is a bacterial infection caused by unhygienic sexual life. Therefore, when a woman develops vaginitis, she should be treated with surgery and pay attention to vaginal hygiene. When women experience burning and stinging pain in the urethra when urinating, the urethral opening will become red, swollen, and itchy. It is best for patients to avoid sexual intercourse.

Burning and stinging when women urinate are generally manifestations of urethritis. Urethritis is a common gynecological disease that is more common in women. Its causes include physiological factors, lifestyle factors, and pathological factors. Clinically, it is divided into acute and chronic, nonspecific urethritis and gonococcal urethritis. Patients should go to a regular hospital for treatment in time. So, does burning and stinging when women urinate mean they have urethritis?

The main symptoms of urethritis in women are redness, swelling, itching and slight stinging at the urethral opening, followed by the discharge of thin mucus. In severe cases, there is mild swelling, causing difficulty in urination; the pain when urinating is mild, only burning or slight stinging in the urethra is felt during urination, and terminal hematuria is often seen; symptoms such as difficulty urinating, thin urine stream, short range, and even urine retention occur.

The most common cause of urethritis in women is urinary tract infection. Gynecological experts say that because the female urethra is shorter, about 3-4 cm, and the external urethral opening is close to the vaginal opening and anus, it is easily contaminated by vaginal secretions and feces, especially when women suffer from bacterial vaginosis, they are more likely to develop bacterial urethritis; when there is obstruction in the female urethral opening or urethra, such as urethral stenosis, urinary stones, tumors, etc., it will cause poor urine discharge, bacteria will grow in the urethra, and cause urethritis; urethral damage caused by various reasons often easily causes urethritis, these reasons include sexual life, improper use of instruments during gynecological examinations.

In addition, gynecological experts point out that urethritis in women is harmful and if not treated for a long time, it may lead to other gynecological diseases, such as cervicitis, vaginitis and adnexitis. Therefore, women with symptoms of urethritis must actively seek treatment.

Burning pain in the female urethra is definitely a warning to you that some disease is attacking you. What you need to do is to actively treat it, find out the pathogen, and keep it under good control. After reading the expert’s introduction, we should all have a sense of crisis to some extent. Once discovered, timely treatment is necessary.