What is hematospermia?

Hematospermia is a relatively common male disease, which mainly refers to the presence of blood in the ejaculated semen. At this time, it must be taken seriously. There are many causes, the most common of which are seminal vesiculitis or prostatitis. This situation often leads to a decline in the quality of male sperm and may even lead to infertility. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the specific causes and receive good treatment in time.

What is hematospermia?

Seminal vesiculitis is one of the common infectious diseases in men. The onset age is mostly between 20 and 40 years old. The main clinical manifestations are hematospermia and painful ejaculation. However, it can be divided into acute and chronic types. The individual differences are large, and the clinical manifestations are not exactly the same.

What is seminal vesiculitis

Seminal vesiculitis often occurs at the same time as prostatitis, mostly due to retrograde infection. The pathogens are mostly Staphylococcus aureus, hemolytic Streptococcus and Escherichia coli, and are divided into acute and chronic seminal vesiculitis.

The seminal vesicle is not an organ that stores semen, but an accessory gland of the male reproductive organ. It is a pair of long oval sac-like organs. It is located behind the base of the bladder and outside the vas deferens. It is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, slightly flat at the front and back, with an uneven surface. The upper end is free and relatively swollen as the base of the seminal vesicle, and the lower end is thin and straight, which is its excretory duct. Due to the structural characteristics of the seminal vesicle, after inflammation occurs, the drainage is not smooth, and bacteria are easy to invade and stay, making it difficult to completely cure. In order to prevent the prolongation of seminal vesiculitis, whether it is acute or chronic seminal vesiculitis, it should be thoroughly treated.

How to identify seminal vesiculitis

1. Pain

Acute cases may cause pain in the lower abdomen, involving the perineum and the inguinal cleft on both sides. Chronic cases may cause dull pain in the upper pubic area, accompanied by discomfort in the perineum. The pain symptoms are significantly aggravated during ejaculation.

2. Frequent urination, urgency, and pain when urinating

Acute cases have obvious symptoms of urinary urgency and pain during urination, and dysuria. Chronic cases have obvious symptoms of frequent urination, urgency, discomfort during urination, and a burning sensation.

3. Hematospermia

Symptoms include discharge of blood in semen during ejaculation, and the semen is pink or red or contains blood clots. In acute cases, the phenomenon of blood in semen is more obvious.

4. Pain during ejaculation

Painful ejaculation, low libido, spermatorrhea, and premature ejaculation are symptoms of chronic seminal vesiculitis.

How to prevent seminal vesiculitis

1. Moderate sexual intercourse: reduce congestion of the reproductive organs and avoid worsening of inflammation.

2. Avoid sitting for long periods of time: Reduce sitting time and walk around frequently to promote blood circulation.

3. Physical exercise: Exercise regularly to enhance resistance and avoid upper respiratory tract infections and inflammation.

4. Treat the disease in time: Prostatitis, urethritis, etc. must be treated in a timely and standardized manner to prevent the disease from spreading and affecting the seminal vesicles.

5. Pay attention to diet: The diet should not be too spicy and irritating, and do not drink alcohol, so as not to stimulate prostatitis and seminal vesicle congestion.

6. Warm water sitz bath: For patients who have given birth to children, regular warm water sitz baths can promote blood circulation in the reproductive organs and promote the discharge of inflammatory secretions.

7. Diet therapy: For hematospermia caused by damp-heat and blood heat, carp soup and lotus root porridge can be used for conditioning. For hematospermia caused by blood stasis, pig hoof, chicken blood vine and red dates soup can be used for auxiliary conditioning.