What happens if the urethra is swollen?

The urethra is a major pathway for excreting impurities and waste, but sometimes people may not pay attention to hygiene, leading to inflammation of the urethral opening. The main symptom is redness and swelling of the urethral opening, and it may also be accompanied by other symptoms. As for what is going on with the swelling of the urethral opening, people need to consider several factors in order to use them for treatment.

1. If the urethral opening is red and swollen, the first thing to consider is urethritis. The most common symptom of urethritis is redness and swelling of the urethral opening. Acute urethritis is often accompanied by redness and swelling of the urethral opening, mucosal eversion, urgency, frequency, pain, urethral stinging, and severe cases are accompanied by chills, high fever, and difficulty urinating. 2. In addition to urethritis, the second factor we can consider is balanitis. Of course, the premise is that the male patient has a long foreskin. Bacterial balanitis is mostly caused by pathogen infection and inflammation. The accumulated large amount of smegma stimulates the foreskin and glans penis, causing the glans penis and urethral opening to become red and swollen.

3. Of course, we have considered urethritis and balanitis, which are all manifestations of inflammation. In fact, we can also consider the symptoms of gonorrhea. Gonorrhea often invades the urethra at the beginning, causing redness, swelling, burning pain, and sticky pus at the urethral opening, accompanied by symptoms such as urgency, frequency, pain, hematuria, and dripping urine.

In addition to the above three reasons, we can also consider the phenomenon of non-gonococcal urethritis, which is one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases in clinical practice. It is extremely threatening, prone to repeated infection, and difficult to completely cure. As the name suggests, the urethral opening is red and swollen. This is a pathological symptom, usually accompanied by itching. The occurrence of this situation generally indicates that it is currently in the inflammatory response stage of a certain urogenital infection disease, which is a critical stage of treatment and must be actively and effectively diagnosed and treated.