Itching inside the foreskin

There are many kinds of male diseases, the most common of which are sexual organ diseases. Itching inside the foreskin is one of them. On the one hand, it is caused by infection, and part of it is caused by lifestyle habits. While taking medicine, you can adjust your lifestyle habits, don't wear tight pants, and be sure to wear pure cotton underwear, pay attention to personal hygiene, and wash the penis every day to avoid bacterial infection again. Let's learn about it below.

The foreskin penis needs to be cleaned every day. The dampness of the genitals is easy to breed bacteria and cause itching. Usually pay attention to the ventilation of the genitals. It is best to wear pure cotton clothes. Pay attention to cleaning every day and avoid tight pants or unclean sex. Also try to avoid physical stimulation. Pay attention to eating less alcohol and sour, spicy and other irritating foods. At the same time, pay attention to strengthening physical exercise, personal hygiene, and enhancing disease resistance.

Balanitis refers to inflammation of the inner layer of the foreskin and the glans penis. A lipid substance secreted in the normal foreskin cavity can accumulate into smegma when the foreskin is too long or phimosis occurs, which can irritate the foreskin and glans penis and cause balanitis. This disease can also be caused by bacterial or fungal infection or drug allergy.

Causes

The causes of this disease can be divided into two categories

1. Simple or non-infectious factors

In addition to physiological phimosis, glans inflammation changes may occur due to excessive foreskin, smegma stimulation after sexual maturity, or a few mechanical injury factors.

2. Infectious or communicable diseases

Balanitis is mainly caused by pathogenic microorganisms, among which bacterial and fungal infections are the most common.

Candidal balanitis: It is more common in cases of excessive foreskin and a history of unclean sexual intercourse. The foreskin and glans penis may be slightly flushed. There may be white cheese-like secretions on the inner plate of the foreskin and the glans glans coronal sulcus. There may be needle-sized light red papules on the glans glans. If the outer foreskin and scrotum are invaded, scaly erythema may be seen. If the fossa navicularis is involved, there may be frequent urination and dysuria. There may be burning sensation and itching locally. Occasionally, fulminant edema balanitis may occur, which is mainly manifested by obvious edema and severe itching of the foreskin penis, with shallow ulcers.

1. Acute superficial galactitis

It is usually caused by friction of underwear, trauma, or local irritation from soap or detergent. It manifests as edema, erythema, exudation, erosion, secondary infection with purulent secretions, easy formation of ulcers, and spontaneous pain.

2. Annular erosive glans

The lesions of the glans and foreskin are ring-shaped, or the rings have cheese-like smegma, which can easily break down into superficial ulcers over time. If the ring-shaped features are lost, it is difficult to distinguish from superficial glansitis. This disease can exist alone or as a mucosal symptom of Reiter syndrome.