What is the problem of men being unable to urinate?

If women's gynecological diseases are very annoying, then for men, there are also some diseases that are difficult to talk about - urinary system diseases. Many men have difficulty urinating due to bacterial infections and other reasons. In fact, in this case, it is possible that they have urinary system diseases. So what exactly is the disease? It may be urinary difficulties caused by urinary tract infection.

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.

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.