What disease causes urethral discharge?

The problem of urethral discharge worries many people. In fact, when facing this symptom, we should pay attention to understand the cause. For male friends, it may be caused by genital warts, genital herpes or syphilis.

1. Male urethral itching: It refers to a feeling like ants crawling at the urethral opening, which may occur from time to time, be mild or severe, or persist, or be accompanied by pain. This condition is mainly seen in various urogenital infections, such as urethritis, condyloma acuminatum, genital herpes, gonorrhea, syphilis, and can also be seen in chronic prostatitis with infection.

2. Redness and swelling of male urethral opening: It refers to the pathological characteristics of the urethral opening being red and swollen, and sometimes even everted. It may also be accompanied by symptoms such as itching and pain. The appearance of this situation generally indicates that the patient is currently in the inflammatory response stage of a certain urogenital infection disease, which is a key stage of treatment and must be actively and effectively diagnosed and treated. Such as gonorrhea, non-gonococcal gonorrhea, AIDS, etc.

3. Male urethral pain: urethral pain usually occurs with other symptoms. The pain can be stinging, blunt, or dull. Sometimes it can pull the perineum or radiate into the penis. This condition is generally common in prostatitis, orchitis, balanitis, condyloma acuminatum, syphilis, genital herpes and other diseases.

4. Male urethral discharge: Urethral discharge is mainly seen in sexually transmitted diseases, such as white substance overflowing, or some sticky liquid sticking around the urethral opening. It is mainly seen in gonorrhea, urethritis, glansitis, etc. This situation generally indicates that it is in the infection or obvious inflammatory stage, which is the key moment of treatment.

5. Male urethral stenosis: Urethral narrowing or narrowing refers to a reduction in the original diameter of the urethra, which affects the normal discharge of urine and ejaculation of semen. This situation is mainly seen in repeated infections of chronic urethritis, which leads to pathological changes in urethral fibrosis, often affecting the discharge of urine and semen. It is a sign of chronic renal failure, nephritis, male infertility, etc.