Why is the sperm yellowish?

Generally speaking, for normal adult men, the sperm they ejaculate will appear as a grayish-white transparent liquid. However, for a guy who has not ejaculated for a long time, the color of the sperm in his ejaculate may be a little abnormal. This is normal and there is no need to worry too much. Let's discuss why the ejaculated sperm is a little yellow.

However, if the sperm of a man is observed to be light yellow or light pink for a long time, then it is necessary to consider that it may be caused by pathological reasons.

The color of semen of a normal adult male is determined by the composition of semen, and semen is composed of sperm and seminal plasma. The total number of sperm is only a small part of it, and more than 90% of it is seminal plasma. Seminal plasma is metabolized by the attached glands, such as the prostate, seminal vesicles, bulbourethral glands and urethral glands. The main components are water, including fat, protein particles, melanin particles, lecithin, enzymes, glucose, etc. The semen of ordinary people is gray or slightly yellow. If the abstinence time is long, due to the changes in physical and mental properties, the color will turn yellow, which is a normal color. If the color turns yellow for a long time, it may indicate inflammation in the reproductive system, which may be caused by prostatitis and seminal vesiculitis.

If the prostate gland is inflamed, the semen will also be infected, which can change the color and characteristics of the semen. The yellowing of the semen may be caused by it. Other symptoms of prostatitis include frequent urination, urinary incontinence, inability to hold urine, incomplete urine, constant urge to urinate, pain in the urethra, and sometimes white liquid overflowing from the urethra, which in turn causes instability and pain in the patient's daily life and work.

Seminal vesiculitis often occurs with prostatitis, mainly due to retrograde infection. The pathogens are Staphylococcus aureus, hemolytic Streptococcus and Escherichia coli. They are divided into two types: subacute and chronic seminal vesiculitis. Seminal vesiculitis is one of the common infectious symptoms in men. The age of this disease is 20~40 years old. The main clinical symptom is ejaculation bleeding, but there are two types: subacute and chronic. The individual differences are great, and the clinical symptoms are different. Most of the clinical symptoms are lower abdominal distension and pain, frequent urination, urgency, inability to hold urine, painful urination, ejaculation bleeding and other symptoms.