The glans is a little red and swollen like lips

The glans is a very important part of the male body. If there is any abnormality in this area, it is very worrying. In daily life, many men have encountered the phenomenon that the glans is a little red and swollen like lips. The most common cause is urethritis or acute urinary tract infection. You can learn about these two diseases, make a judgment based on your own situation, and go to the hospital for treatment in time.

When this clinical situation occurs, it is generally necessary to consider whether it is related to urethritis, acute urinary tract infection, or urethral stoma.

When a patient has this condition, it is recommended that he or she go to the hospital for relevant examinations in time to make a clear diagnosis. He or she can undergo a facial examination and do routine urine tests, urine culture, etc.

If the patient has secretions, it is recommended to do a secretion smear test or secretion culture test.

If it is confirmed to be urethral stoma inflammation, it is recommended to clean it with normal saline and then apply erythromycin for treatment to improve the patient's clinical symptoms.

Symptoms of Urethritis

1. Symptoms of acute urethritis

Inflammation of the urethra, with a small amount of thin urethral secretions, or urethral itching, and sometimes urinary urgency and frequent urination. Although the symptoms of acute urethritis are small and mild, they are more obvious, mainly with more urethral secretions. Both men and women will have stinging pain in the urethra when urinating, frequent urination and urgency. At first, the urethra is mucous, which gradually becomes purulent, and the patient feels obvious discomfort.

2. Symptoms of chronic urethritis

The urethral secretion decreases, with only itching or antsy sensation, and the urination irritation is not as obvious as in the acute phase, and some patients may have no symptoms. There is burning pain in the urethra during urination, frequent urination and urgency, and even difficulty urinating.

Clinical manifestations of urinary tract infection

1. Acute simple cystitis

The onset is sudden, and female patients are 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 urethral burning sensation; the degree of urinary frequency 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 type of occult urinary tract infection, which is more common in elderly women and pregnant women. Patients do not have any symptoms of urinary tract infection, and the incidence increases with age.

4. Complicated urinary tract infection

The clinical manifestations of complicated urinary tract infection vary greatly. It is often accompanied by other diseases that increase the risk of infection or treatment failure, and may or may not be accompanied by 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 toxemia and renal failure, renal failure can be divided into acute and chronic, reversible and irreversible, etc.