Female urethral obstruction

Everyone has heard of urethritis, urinary tract infection and urethral injury, but no one has heard of urethral obstruction. Urethral obstruction is the most painful. Many people can only urinate a little bit at a time when going to the toilet, and rarely can they urinate completely. Most of these people will have urine retention, inflammatory infection, and may even have urinary obstruction.

Treatment

In acute urinary retention, the bladder is full and the patient is in extreme pain. The first thing to do is to relieve the urine retention. The most commonly used method is to insert a rubber catheter through the urethra under sterile operation. If the catheter can pass through the obstruction and enter the bladder, the retained urine can be discharged, temporarily relieving the patient's pain. The urine can be sent for routine testing and bacterial culture.

For an overinflated bladder, drainage should be done slowly to avoid bleeding caused by a sudden decrease in bladder pressure. After the catheter is placed in the bladder, do not remove it easily, because the primary lesion causing the obstruction has not been treated and there is a high possibility of urinary retention occurring again. The catheter should be kept in the bladder and secured at the external urethral opening.

Diet and health care

;Eating some soybeans and soy products are rich in protein, calcium, iron, phosphorus, vitamin B, moderate amounts of fat and a small amount of carbohydrates, which is very beneficial for this disease.

Preventive Care

Develop good eating habits, drink plenty of water, exercise appropriately, and actively treat urinary stones and other primary diseases that can cause this disease.

Pathological etiology

Various diseases of the urinary system and lesions of other organs adjacent to the urinary tract can cause obstruction in different parts of the urinary tract.

(1) Urethral lesions: urethral stenosis, urethral stenosis, posterior urethral valve, prostatic hypertrophy or prostate cancer, urethral injury, urethral foreign body, urethral stones, etc.

(2) Bladder lesions: Neurogenic bladder - nerve damage caused by congenital meningocele, acquired trauma, drug effects, bladder stones, bladder neck tumors, ureterocele, blood clot obstruction in the bladder, bladder neck contracture, etc.

(3) Ureteral lesions: ureteral stones, tumors, trauma, accidental ligation during surgery, extensive retroperitoneal fibrosis, etc.

(4) Kidney diseases: kidney stones, renal pelvic tumors, blood clots caused by tumor bleeding, congenital stenosis of the junction of the renal pelvis and ureter, etc.

(5) Obstruction of the urinary tract caused by lesions other than the urinary system: such as compression of the ureter by retroperitoneal or pelvic tumors, and infiltration of cervical cancer into the posterior wall of the bladder, causing obstruction of one or both ureters entering the bladder.