Can men have sex if they have urinary tract infection?

The incidence of urinary tract infection is increasing nowadays. It often occurs not only in women but also in men. This is related to sexual life. Male reproductive infection diseases are harmful not only to men themselves, but also to their sexual partners, in addition to the symptoms such as frequent urination, urinary pain, and urinary incontinence that make men suffer. So what should men pay attention to after urinary tract infection? Can they still have sex? The following editor will answer them one by one.

Sexual intercourse can cause damage to the urethral opening, and can even squeeze bacteria from the anterior urethra and around the urethral opening into the posterior urethra and bladder, inducing urinary tract infection. Therefore, it is obvious that couples should not have sex during urinary tract infection. Symptomatic urinary tract infection itself has frequent urination, urgency, pain, fever, back pain, unwillingness or inability to have sex. The problem is how to deal with asymptomatic urinary tract infection and urinary tract infection in the recovery period?

① Pre-marital physical examinations for both men and women should include urine routine. If there is any abnormality, urine bacteria culture should be performed. If it meets the criteria of asymptomatic bacteriuria, active treatment should be given. The couple can only get married after the urine culture turns negative three times;

② Married men and women should refrain from sexual intercourse regardless of whether they have asymptomatic bacteriuria or are recovering from urinary tract infection;

③ If you have sexual intercourse within 3 months after the clinical cure of urinary tract infection, it is recommended to take a dose of effective antibacterial drugs after intercourse. In addition, in the clinical work of urology and gynecology, we often encounter couples like this, one of them (especially the woman) has suffered from chronic urinary tract infection for many years, and the couple's sexual life has been uncoordinated for many years. Some even have urinary tract infection recurring after sexual intercourse. At this time, the above suggestions ② and ③ should be followed.

From the above, we can see that male urinary tract infection has a great impact on sexual life. After we know the precautions for male urinary tract infection, we should pay more attention to the hygiene of the genitals, not to mention the desire for sex. If you want to be healthy and have a harmonious sex life in the future, you must learn to endure the desire for a while.