What are the symptoms of male fungal urethritis?

Male candidal urethritis can present with symptoms such as frequent urination, urgent urination, painful urination, and difficult urination. When examining the urethral opening, edema, flushing, and ectropion of the urethra will be found. Sometimes there will even be some mucus and purulent secretions.

1. Symptoms

The incubation period of male candidal urethritis is difficult to accurately diagnose, especially for those who have many sexual partners or are asymptomatic carriers of pathogens. The typical symptoms of male candidal urethritis are urethral itching, varying degrees of frequent urination, urgency, urinary pain and painful urination. There is mucous or purulent secretion at the urethral opening, and the symptoms are milder than those of gonorrhea. A small amount of secretion is easily seen when there is no urination for a long time or when there is no urination at night until the morning urination. Some develop into a crust or yellowish dirt on the underwear. For those who do not have obvious symptoms or have a short interval between urination, urethral secretions are easily washed away by urine. Male fungal urethritis examination shows edema or redness at the urethral opening, eversion of the urethral opening, and mucus or purulent secretions. Squeezing the urethra from the root of the penis to the urethral opening can squeeze out mucus or purulent secretions, occasionally with slight tenderness. Patients feel frequent urination, severe urinary pain, or burning pain at the end of urination.

2. Hazards

1. Affecting fertility and causing infertility. Long-term urethritis may lead to complications such as prostatitis, causing changes in the composition of prostatic fluid, which in turn affects the liquefaction time of semen, reduces sperm motility, and causes male infertility.

2. Recurrent attacks affect life. Since urethritis usually recurs, the stimulation of inflammation brings considerable damage to the human body's physiology and psychology, such as symptoms such as urgency and frequency of urination, urethral pain, and difficulty urinating, which make patients irritable and affect their lives.

3. Affecting sexual function, leading to impotence and premature ejaculation. Due to the lingering disease, various symptoms and discomforts worsen after sexual intercourse, or directly affect the feeling and quality of sexual life, making patients gradually feel disgusted, leading to impotence, premature ejaculation and other phenomena.

4. Lead to chronic renal failure. The biggest feature of urethritis is that it can easily become chronic, and severe cases can cause chronic renal failure. According to the latest statistics, 25% of chronic renal failure patients are caused by urethritis.