Causes of urethral pain in men when urinating

I believe everyone knows the importance of urination. If our urination is abnormal, we must pay attention to it and go to the hospital for consultation in time to avoid the deterioration of the disease and make it difficult to treat. Some male friends may experience urethral pain when urinating. What are the factors that cause this? Below we introduce the reasons why men have urethral pain when urinating.

Urinary tract infection, also known as urinary system infection, is an inflammatory response of the urothelium to bacterial invasion, usually accompanied by bacteriuria and purulent urine.

Urinary tract infection is divided into upper urinary tract infection and lower urinary tract infection according to the site of infection; it can be divided into isolated or sporadic infection and recurrent infection according to the relationship between the two infections, the latter of which can be divided into reinfection and bacterial persistence, which is also called recurrence; according to the state of the urinary tract at the time of infection, it can be divided into simple urinary tract infection, complicated urinary tract infection and urethritis. Urinary tract infection is more common in women, especially in women with active sexual life and postmenopausal women.

More than 95% of urinary tract infections are caused by a single bacterium. Among them, 90% of outpatients and about 50% of inpatients are caused by Escherichia coli, which can be classified into 140 types. The urinary infection type Escherichia coli is the same type as the Escherichia coli isolated from the patient's feces, and is often seen in asymptomatic bacteriuria or uncomplicated urine infection; Proteus, Aerobacterium, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Fecal streptococci are seen in patients with reinfection, indwelling urinary catheters, and urinary tract infections with complications; Candida albicans and Cryptococcus neoformans are more common in patients with diabetes, patients taking glucocorticoids and immunosuppressive drugs, and patients after kidney transplantation; Staphylococcus aureus is more common in bacteremia and septicemia caused by skin trauma and drug addicts; although viral and mycoplasma infections are rare, they have gradually increased in recent years. Various bacterial infections are seen in indwelling urinary catheters, neurogenic bladders, stones, congenital malformations, and vaginal, intestinal, and urethral fistulas.

In the above article, we introduced a symptom that male friends are prone to when urinating, that is, urethral pain. We know that urethral pain when men urinate will cause many troubles to patients. The above article introduces in detail the reasons why men urinate with urethral pain.