What causes penile swelling?

Male genital swelling is one of the common symptoms of men's diseases. There are many reasons for male genital swelling. Many male urinary tract inflammations can cause male genital pain. Under normal circumstances, if there is no unclean marital life history, the possibility of sexually transmitted diseases can be ruled out, which is common in prostatitis and balanitis. There is no need to worry about prostatitis and balanitis. Go to a regular hospital for scientific treatment in time and it can be cured quickly. On the contrary, there is a possibility of sexually transmitted diseases, such as genital herpes, which is very harmful. Therefore, if you find male genital pain, you should go to the hospital for a physical examination and treatment as soon as possible!

Under normal circumstances, the male genitals are clean, not red, not swollen, not painful, not itchy, and there is no foreign matter around them. However, when suffering from urinary system diseases, a series of clinical manifestations will appear. Especially for infectious diseases, such as prostatitis, balanitis, genital herpes, etc., the patient's male genitals will have pain symptoms.

1. Prostatitis

Prostatitis refers to acute inflammation caused by specific and non-specific infection of the male prostate, which in turn causes systemic or partial symptoms. Prostatitis is the most common disease in adult men, and is often manifested by frequent urination, urgency, inability to hold urine, urinary pain, urethral discomfort, burning pain at the urethral opening, or difficulty urinating. The symptoms are aggravated by squatting or sitting on a chair for a long time.

Key injuries: Prostatitis causes frequent urination, urgent urination, inability to hold urine, painful urination, pain in the lumbar sacral region, genitals, testicles and other parts, which seriously affect normal life and work; if prostatitis cannot be cured for a long time, various symptoms and discomforts will be aggravated during sexual intercourse, and long-term erectile dysfunction such as impotence and premature ejaculation will be easily caused; it affects the sperm liquefaction time, reduces sperm motility, and causes male infertility.

2. Balanitis

Balanoposthitis refers to inflammation of the inner layer of the foreskin and the glans penis. It can be caused by various bacteria, urine scale irritation, foreskin and glans penis, etc. At the beginning, the foreskin is too long, the glans penis and even the urethra are red and swollen, with a burning and itchy feeling. When the foreskin is opened, it can be seen that the foreskin and glans penis are congested and eroded, with exudate, and if it rubs against underwear, it will cause genital pain.

3. Genital herpes

Genital herpes is a genital tract infection caused by a virus called herpes simplex. Genital herpes occurs about 4 to 5 days after infection. The male genitals and glans penis will first feel a burning sensation, and then a large group of papules will appear, which can be one or more clusters. Then small blisters will appear, which will burst in about 6 days to form erosions or shallow ulcers. The patient will experience genital swelling and pain.