Urethra stinging after urinating

Urination is an essential daily behavior of the human body. It can discharge excess water and useless products of metabolism from the human body. However, many people will experience some adverse reactions when urinating. Urethral pain after urination is a common situation. There are many reasons for this situation, it may be vaginitis, prostatitis, etc. The following is a detailed introduction to why the urethra hurts after urination.

Ardor urinae is pain in the urethra, bladder, and perineum during urination. The pain can be mild or severe, often feeling like a burning sensation, with severe cases feeling like a knife cut and mild cases feeling like a needle prick. Painful urination is common in urethritis, prostatitis, prostatic hyperplasia, seminal vesiculitis, cystitis, urinary tract stones, bladder tuberculosis, pyelonephritis, etc. Clinically, stinging pain when urinating in men may be caused by non-gonococcal urethritis, an infectious disease of the male reproductive system, the main infection factor being poor personal hygiene.

Inflammation caused by sexual contact with people infected with Chlamydia and Mycoplasma.

1. Gonorrhea

If a large amount of thick purulent discharge is seen at the urethral opening, it may be gonorrhea.

2. Non-gonococcal urethritis

Only thin white mucus may be non-gonococcal urethritis.

3. Prostatitis

If there is only a small amount of secretion in the early morning or after urination, or even a small amount of grayish white mucus or purulent secretion is seen when squeezing the urethra, it may be prostatitis.

Clinical manifestations

Pain in the urethra, bladder, and perineum when urinating. The pain can be mild or severe, often feeling like a burning sensation, with severe cases feeling like a knife cut and mild cases feeling like a needle prick. Or there may be a mild feeling of heat in the urethra, abnormal secretions from the urethra, or symptoms such as frequent urination, urgency, pain, difficulty urinating, and hematuria.

Common urinary and reproductive system diseases that cause urinary stinging:

1. Gonorrhea

A sexually transmitted disease with the highest number of clinical cases caused by gonococci. The main symptoms are urethritis, redness and swelling of the urethral opening, pus discharge, stinging and burning sensation. Difficulty urinating and frequent urination. If not treated promptly, it may turn into chronic urethritis. Female gonorrhea patients present with cervicitis, purulent discharge from the vaginal opening, vaginal redness, swelling, congestion and stinging, and other symptoms are not obvious.