Male genital tract infection

Inflammatory infections of the male genitals include orchitis or epididymitis, which can cause reproductive pain or oligospermia or azoospermia, and can also cause infertility and dysuria in patients. For these infections, patients are advised to seek timely treatment. As for the causes of genital inflammation, you can learn about the content of this article.

Common Types of Genital Infections

Orchitis

It is often a complication of epididymitis. In severe cases, it can develop into epididymal orchitis. It can also be secondary to systemic diseases such as mumps, syphilis, and tuberculosis. Whether the inflammation originates from the testicles or comes from other systems, the testicles are damaged. Orchitis caused by mumps is mostly unilateral. If it is bilateral, it can cause infertility due to testicular atrophy. At this time, severe damage to the spermatogenic epithelium can be seen. Therefore, unilateral testicular damage still has reproductive ability, but if bilateral testicular damage occurs, it can cause oligospermia or azoospermia. Orchitis or epididymitis caused by gonorrhea can lead to loss of testicular function and partial or complete obstruction of the epididymis.

Epididymitis

Especially chronic epididymitis, which often coexists or occurs successively with chronic prostatitis and chronic seminal vesiculitis. During the development of inflammatory lesions, the epididymal lumen may become thinner and narrower due to scar formation, or even develop into complete closure of the lumen. If the lesion is bilateral, it may cause infertility.

Balanitis and glansitis

It is a common disease. When suffering from it, sexual intercourse becomes difficult and fertility is affected. Generally, the course of the disease is short and it has no major impact on fertility after the inflammation is cured. However, you should be alert to similar symptoms such as gonorrhea and syphilis that appear on the glans penis.

Inflammation of the accessory glands, epididymis, or testicles

Autoimmune infertility may sometimes occur due to damage to the blood-testicular barrier or changes in the structure of sperm antigen molecules.

How to prevent reproductive infections

1. Regular genital examinations, including genital B-ultrasound examinations, vaginal secretion examinations, and physical examinations by doctors, are performed to rule out genital organ diseases and genital tract infections.

2. Be careful, the more people you have unprotected sex with, the more likely you are to contract reproductive infections.

3. Personal hygiene. When cleaning the anus, do not scrub from back to front, but scrub from front to back, or from the anus to both sides. It is best to rinse the anus with clean water after defecation to prevent the E. coli around the anus from contaminating the urethra and vaginal openings and causing urinary and reproductive tract infections.

4. When having sex, you should always use condoms and spermicide. Please remember the principle: every time you have sex, you should practice safer sex.

5. Always pay attention to symptoms. If you have any unusual discharge, wounds, abscesses, swelling, lumps, itching or pain in, on or around your penis, vagina or anus, or if you have sex with someone you think may have a reproductive infection, see a doctor for a checkup. If in doubt, it is always wise to get checked out. In the meantime, stop having sex.