What to do if the foreskin is red, swollen and itchy?

In real life, many men often do not pay attention to their genital hygiene, which can easily lead to some inflammation. Redness, swelling and itching of men's foreskin may be a manifestation of inflammation, which is generally caused by unclean sexual life. It needs timely treatment and can be treated with anti-inflammatory drugs. It can also be washed with warm water on a regular basis to keep the genital foreskin dry.

It is caused by physiological foreskin being too long and inflammation after sexual intercourse.

treatment

1. Go to the hospital's andrology department for further examination. 2. Physiological phimosis can be cured after surgery. It does not affect sexual life and fertility. 3. Anti-infection and anti-inflammatory treatment after surgery.

Causes

Physiological factors

Poor or abnormal development of the penis can lead to an unfavorable anatomical structure, prepuce hyperplasia and phimosis, which can cause the glans penis and urethra opening to be irritated by urine retained in the urethra opening and urine scale in the foreskin cavity, or foreskin incarceration, resulting in congestion, swelling, ischemia, necrosis, etc. of the glans penis, thereby reducing the anti-infection ability of the glans penis and urethra opening, making it easy to be infected by pathogens.

Normal glans penis and penile skin have strong resistance to normal flora living in the penile skin and certain pathogenic bacteria that infect the penile skin, so under normal physiological conditions, penile skin infectious diseases usually do not occur. However, if the glans penis or its skin is injured by squeezing, itching, intense masturbation, sexual intercourse, and oral sex, it may be conducive to pathogenic pathogens and conditional pathogens to infect penile tissues and cause penile inflammatory reactions.

Reduced body resistance

The occurrence of certain infections of the penis is often related to factors such as colds, diabetes, overwork, dysbacteriosis, tumors or the use of immunosuppressants, which lead to a decrease in the body's resistance or immune ability. For example, colds or overwork can cause a decrease in the body's resistance, which can often cause latent infection of herpes simplex virus (herpes simplex virus).

simplex virus (HSV) activation and recurrent infection; diabetic patients, tumor patients and patients treated with immunosuppressants are often prone to penile tissue infection caused by different species of Candida species due to reduced immunity; irregular use and abuse of antimicrobial drugs cause urinary tract flora imbalance, which can lead to infection with certain resistant pathogens and conditional pathogens and cause inflammatory reactions of the glans penis or glans phimitis.

Vulvitis is manifested by redness, swelling, pain, and itching of the glans penis and foreskin. Vulvitis is more common in men around 20-30 years old. The damage mainly occurs at the junction of the edge of the glans penis and the coronal sulcus and/or the frenulum. The damage is a papule of 1-3mm in size, and the damage is larger on both sides of the frenulum. The top of the papule is round and smooth, and some papules are hairy or filamentous. The papules are mostly unfused, and are densely arranged in one or more rows. They are obvious on the dorsal side of the glans penis and can partially or completely surround the glans penis. The color of the damage is mostly pearly white, a few are light red or skin-colored, and some may appear slightly red and swollen. There is no tenderness, no rupture, and the patient has no conscious symptoms. Histopathological examination of vulvitis shows hyperkeratosis, mild to moderate hyperplasia of the epidermis, normal basal layer, slight hyperplasia and density of collagen fibers in the dermis, varying degrees of hyperplasia and dilation of dermal papillary capillaries, a small amount of lymphocyte infiltration around, and no concave cells.