What are the symptoms of a urinary tract infection in men?

Male urinary tract infection is also called male urinary system infection. Male urinary tract infection is also accompanied by bacteriuria and purulent urine. Male urinary tract infection will also affect the health of the genitals. When the condition is serious, it will also bring a lot of trouble to sexual life. What are the symptoms of male urinary tract infection?

1. Acute simple cystitis

The onset is sudden, and the onset of the disease is often related to sexual activity. The main manifestations are bladder irritation symptoms, i.e. frequent urination, urgency, pain, discomfort in the bladder area or perineum, and burning sensation in the urethra; the frequency of urination varies, and severe cases may have urgency urinary incontinence; cloudy urine, white blood cells in the urine, terminal hematuria, sometimes whole-course hematuria, and even blood clots. Generally, there are no obvious systemic infection symptoms, and the body temperature is normal or there is a low fever.

2. Acute simple pyelonephritis

(1) Urinary system symptoms include bladder irritation symptoms such as frequent urination, urgency, and pain during urination; hematuria; low back pain on the affected side or both sides; obvious tenderness or percussion pain at the costovertebral angle on the affected side;

(2) Symptoms of systemic infection such as chills, high fever, headache, nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, etc., are often accompanied by increased white blood cell count and increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate.

3. Asymptomatic bacteriuria

Asymptomatic bacteriuria is a cryptic UTI in which the patient has no symptoms of UTI. The incidence increases with age.

4. Complicated urinary tract infection

The clinical manifestations of complicated urinary tract infection vary greatly, and are often accompanied by other diseases that increase the risk of infection or treatment failure, with or without clinical symptoms (such as frequent urination, urgency, pain, dysuria, back pain, costovertebral angle pain, suprapubic pain and fever, etc.). Complicated urinary tract infection is often accompanied by other diseases, such as diabetes and renal failure; it also causes many sequelae, the most serious and fatal cases include urinary tract toxins and renal failure, renal failure can be divided into acute and chronic, reversible and irreversible, etc.