What are the symptoms of male urethral stones?

Male urethral stones are a relatively common disease. Due to physiological reasons, male patients are more likely to suffer from urethral stones than female patients, and the harm to patients is relatively large. When patients are in the acute stage, it often causes urethral scratches, causing severe pain to patients, causing hematuria, increasing urethral secretions, and severe cases may cause infection, leading to urine retention and difficulty urinating.

1. Urethral tenderness and induration

Most patients can feel a hard lump and tenderness at the local site of the urethral calculi. Posterior urethral calculi can be palpated through rectal digital examination. Multiple calculi in the urethral diverticulum can be palpated with a sandy-stone-like friction sensation.

2. Hematuria and urethral discharge

Emergency patients often have terminal hematuria or initial hematuria, or a little blood dripping out at the end of urination, accompanied by severe pain; chronic patients often have mucous or purulent urethral secretions.

3. Difficulty urinating

The stones may cause incomplete urethral obstruction, which may result in thinning, bifurcating and weak urine stream, accompanied by frequent urination, urgency and dribbling. Secondary urethral stones, due to the sudden embedding of stones into the urethra, often cause sudden interruption of urination, strong urge to urinate and bladder tenesmus, and often lead to acute urinary retention.

4. Pain

Primary urethral stones often grow gradually or are located in the diverticulum. There may be no pain symptoms in the early stage. Secondary stones are often suddenly embedded in the urethra, often causing sudden urethral pain and pain during urination. The pain may radiate to the glans penis, perineum or rectum.

Urethral stones are often missed because the urethra is not included in the plain film of the urinary system, so attention should be paid. When removing stones from the anterior urethra, the operation should be gentle and the urethral tissue should not be damaged to avoid urethral stenosis. If the stone is removed surgically, in addition to everting and suturing the urethral incision, a cystostomy should be performed, the urine flow should be temporarily diverted, and antibiotics should be used to control infection to ensure primary healing of the wound.

The above content provides a detailed introduction to the symptoms of male urinary tract stones. I believe that everyone has a full understanding of this disease, so once the above symptoms appear, you should go to the hospital for treatment in time. Only through early treatment can the condition be better improved. At the same time, you must also change bad living habits so that the condition can get better faster.