What to do if your scrotum is wet and cold

Some men may feel a damp and cold scrotum when they touch it. What should you do if your scrotum is damp and cold? Don't worry, because a damp and cold scrotum is not necessarily caused by disease. If this happens, you must go for a check-up. If it is caused by some disease, then you must treat it accordingly. In Chinese and Western medicine, there are two different treatment methods for a damp and cold scrotum. Let's learn more about it.

1. What to do if your scrotum is wet?

Scrotal dampness is not necessarily pathological, so if there is no other discomfort, just pay attention to local cleaning and drying. Usually pay attention to a light diet, eat less raw and cold food, and eat less spicy and fishy food. However, general scrotal dampness may be related to prostate disease. It is recommended that you actively do a prostate examination to determine the specific condition and pay attention to symptomatic treatment.

1. Western medicine treatment

Scrotal eczema is a common scrotal skin disease, commonly known as "scrotal eczema" or "scrotal eczema". It occurs symmetrically, often affecting the entire scrotum. The affected area is extremely itchy, the course is long-lasting, and it recurs repeatedly. It is difficult to cure. This disease can be acute or chronic. The acute stage is equivalent to the "erosive type" and the chronic stage is equivalent to the "dry type". This disease is more common in summer.

The scrotum is a part that men are ashamed to expose. However, the skin here is a troublesome place. The following diseases often cause scrotal itching:

Scrotal eczema has a variety of symptoms on the scrotal skin, including erythema, papules, blisters, erosion, exudation, and scabs. The patient feels burning and itching. Acute swelling or erosion often occurs due to scratching or washing with hot water. The disease has a long course and recurring attacks, causing the skin to become thick, rough, and pigmented.

Tinea cruris is a condition in which annular erythema appears on the scrotal skin, with scaling and severe itching. Patients often also suffer from tinea pedis (commonly known as foot ulcer) or tinea manuum, and often have similar symptoms on the skin of the thigh opposite the scrotum and on the buttocks.

Fixed drug eruption is a recurring round edematous erythema with clear edges, burning sensation and itching in a certain part of the scrotal skin. It often appears within a few hours after taking the wrong medicine and gradually disappears about a week after stopping the medicine. Sometimes dark purple spots remain. If the same type of medicine is taken by mistake again, it may recur.

Scabies causes soybean-sized nodules to appear on the scrotal skin. Prior to this, scattered papules and blisters may appear in the crevices of the fingers, wrists, waist, and lower abdomen, often with severe itching at night.

Scrotal neurodermatitis is closely related to emotions. When emotions fluctuate, the scrotal area becomes severely itchy. After scratching, papules appear on the skin, which gradually merge into one piece, and the skin becomes thicker and harder.

Riboflavin deficiency scrotitis. Long-term consumption of refined white rice, refined white flour, repeated washing of rice, eating chopped green vegetables, or long-term diarrhea, constipation, loss of appetite, picky eating, partiality, etc., can cause riboflavin deficiency. Its main manifestations are: the scrotum is slightly red and shiny at first, and then light red patches appear on both sides of the scrotal suture, with scales sticking to them. Soon, multiple flat papules the size of soybeans may appear, with varying degrees of itching, often accompanied by angular cheilitis, glossitis, etc. As long as you take riboflavin tablets for a week, the symptoms will improve significantly. After changing your eating habits or returning to normal gastrointestinal function, the condition will also be relieved quickly, but it will recur when the nutritional status is poor.

Patients often cannot distinguish the above-mentioned common scrotal skin diseases, and the treatment methods are also different, so it is necessary to ask a specialist to diagnose and treat them according to the specific condition.

2. Traditional Chinese Medicine Classification

Scrotal eczema is generally divided into two types in traditional Chinese medicine: deficiency and excess. Excess is mostly caused by dampness and heat. It is caused by eating spicy, fatty and sweet food, or dampness of the scrotum, sweat infiltration, and friction of underwear. Papules, ulcers, and pustules can be seen on the scrotum. After scratching, erosion, exudation, and scabs will appear. The scrotal skin is red and burning. Deficiency syndrome is mostly transformed from the acute phase. The scrotal skin is thickened, rough like grass, black in color, and itchy. The treatment of excess syndrome should clear away heat and dampness, while the treatment of deficiency syndrome should nourish blood and moisturize the skin.