Bacterial infection of the glans penis: Soak the glans penis in salt water

Balanitis is common, and there are many causes of balanitis. The most common ones are bacterial infection or fungal infection. When this happens, in addition to medication, you can also use salt water to rinse the glans, which has a certain anti-inflammatory and sterilizing effect. In daily life, you must pay attention to the cleanliness of your private parts and change your underwear frequently.

Generally speaking, salt water can be used to clean the glans. If the foreskin is too long, you should often turn up the foreskin for cleaning. In addition, you should eat less spicy and irritating food and try to avoid fatigue and staying up late.

What are the treatments for glansitis?

1. When using drugs to treat balanitis, if the inflammation is not just beginning, it is best to take oral or topical medications and also perform intravenous infusion treatment. This can prevent the inflammation from getting worse and causing erosion or pus.

2. When treating balanitis, if pus discharge has already occurred, you can wipe off the pus first, and then soak the affected area in diluted Alic for about a quarter of an hour.

3. Even if balanitis is cured, it does not necessarily mean that the inflammation will not recur. Therefore, the most permanent way to deal with balanitis is to undergo circumcision, so that neither balanitis nor glansitis will come back to you.

1. Phimitis of the glans penis is characterized by redness and swelling of the foreskin, burning pain, which worsens during urination, and purulent secretions may flow out of the foreskin opening. If the foreskin is turned over, the inner plate of the foreskin and the glans penis can be seen to be congested and swollen. In severe cases, there may be shallow ulcers or erosions, with pus.

3. In addition, if it is candidal glans infection caused by fungal infection, the symptoms are erythema of the glans mucosa, local edema, relatively smooth appearance, mild desquamation of the edges, and papules and small pustules that expand to the surrounding area to form glans erosion. Recurrent glans balanitis can cause dry and cracked foreskin, fibrosis and sclerotic changes of the glans.