The urethra opening is a little red, beware of urethritis

If the urethral opening appears red, everyone should be alert to the phenomenon of urethritis. Both men and women can get urethritis. Patients will experience symptoms such as stinging when urinating, urgency, back pain, and urethral secretions. It will have a great impact on health and must be treated as soon as possible to control the disease.

1. Painful urination: refers to pain in the urethra, bladder and perineum during urination. The pain can be mild or severe, often feeling like a burning sensation, a knife cut in severe cases, or a needle prick in mild cases. Painful urination is common in urethritis, prostatitis, prostatic hyperplasia, seminal vesiculitis, cystitis, urinary tract stones, bladder tuberculosis, pyelonephritis, etc. Clinically, male urinary pain may be suspected to be non-gonococcal urethritis, an infectious disease of the male reproductive system. The main cause of infection is that the patient does not pay attention to personal hygiene in daily life.

2. Peculiar smell on the glans: Peculiar smell on the glans indicates that there is a local infection in the foreskin. It may be due to the foreskin being too long, causing bacteria to grow on the glans and producing a foul odor, or it may be due to inflammation of the foreskin and urethra that stimulates the odor.

3. Urinary urgency: refers to the inability to control urination. Once the urge to urinate comes, you need to urinate. Or after urinating, you feel the urge to urinate again and need to urinate urgently. If you do not urinate in time, your underwear will get wet. It is mainly caused by inflammation or foreign body stimulation of the urethra, bladder, and prostate, and is often accompanied by painful urination.

4. Dysuria: refers to pain in the urethra or the suprapubic area and perineum when the patient urinates. Dysuria refers to pain in the urethra, bladder, and perineum during urination. The pain can be mild or severe, often feeling like a burning pain, and in severe cases it can feel like a knife cutting. Painful urination is common in urethritis, prostatitis, prostatic hyperplasia, seminal vesiculitis, cystitis, urinary tract stones, bladder tuberculosis, pyelonephritis, etc. The characteristics of urinary pain can help to clarify the diagnosis of the disease.

5. Fever accompanied by frequent urination, urgency, pain, and back pain: Urgency refers to the inability to control urination, and the need to urinate as soon as the urge to urinate comes. Or after urinating, you feel the urge to urinate again and need to urinate urgently. If you do not urinate in time, your underwear will get wet. It is mainly caused by inflammation or foreign body stimulation of the urethra, bladder, and prostate, and is often accompanied by painful urination. Fever accompanied by frequent urination, urgency, pain, and back pain are symptoms of frequent urination, urgency, pain, and back pain caused by urinary tract infection.

The above content is about the obvious symptoms that patients with urethritis will have. The occurrence of this disease will cause great harm to patients. If not treated in time, it may cause very serious consequences. Therefore, after being diagnosed with this disease, patients must receive treatment as soon as possible so that the condition can be alleviated as soon as possible.