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Urethritis

Symptoms and causes of urethritis


What is urethritis?

Urethritis – this disease is manifested by problems in urination, which can manifest as pain. The pain usually occur due to the inflammation in the canal. Urethritis can occur as male and female.


Causes of urethritis

Cause of urethritis are different kinds of viruses and microorganisms, fungi. This disease is a rare manifestation. It can also occur due to toxic effects on the body. But in this text they are talking about will not go.

Depending on the cause of the urethritis can be divided species into two broad groups.

  1. Specific – this type is caused by sexually transmitted infection. As a rule, healthy people do not suffer. Such infections include gonococcus, chlamydia, Trichomonas, Mycoplasma, Ureaplasma and rarely – Gardnerella. Can happen also so that the body will be affected by several infections at once. But in any case it will be considered as a specific type of urethritis.

  2. Non-specific urethritis. The cause is a pathogenic microflora. These include Streptococcus, Escherichia coli.

Treatment in either case absolutely the same handed over analyses. But if we are talking about sexual infection disease, the distinctive feature here is to treat both partners and in depth diagnostics.


How is urethritis?

As regards specific urethritis, it manifests itself usually after sexual contact, it may happen that you have been infected for a long time and are long-time carrier of the infection. In this case, the disease can manifest itself completely at any time. Nonspecific urethritis can also occur due to sexual contact.

Once you have reduced immunity, it is attack the body's viruses. They are always present in our body, and as soon as there is attenuation, then the disease appears. The same thing happens with the bladder channel: it is at once inflamed.

The defeat of the urethra can occur absolutely from anywhere – for example, inside, outside from the skin or from the blood. In turn, sexual contact is a massive attack of infections.

As soon as your immune system will no longer deal with incoming infections, you will develop urethritis or any other disease, for example, candidiasis. The case is in the protective mechanisms of your body.


Predisposing factors for the development ofurethritis

By the predisposing factors for the development of urethritis include the following items:
located in cold air;
– sexual trauma;
kidney stones. The passage of stones in the urinary channels also can hurt them and cause an infection;
– excessive load on the body;
– everything that can be related to sexual life – for example, irregular sex or, conversely, a constant or even excessive;
– incomplete nutrition, including diet; eating in large quantity of one product, for example, spicy or salty; may affect also the excessive consumption of alcohol. The fact that everything you eat passes through the urinary channels, it goes through them. And it can cause some irritation in your body;
– it may happen that you are drinking too little water, which could be irregular urination. The process of urination is to protect your body from bacteria. When urinating rinsed channels and the bladder. If you are in the bathroom every two hours, the risk of disease increases;
– presence of any chronic diseases of the urinary channels or kidneys;
– medical intervention. It can include procedures such as the taking of tests like swab or bladder catheterization.

Factors that can affect the appearance of urethritis, quite a lot, they might meet on each path. The disease can affect absolutely any person.

The symptoms of urethritis

The fact that the pain can be of any nature, but will involve urination. Pain can be in the form of cramps or burning sensation, develop discomfort in the pelvic region. All pain will have to occur down there. This is the first symptom of urethritis.

The second symptom of urethritis is discharge from the urethra. The allocation is in principle not controlled. They can be big, some small, can have a smell or have no smell. It all depends on what microbe was diseased organ.

The urethritis is one feature: if you hurt them again and again, the symptoms will be brighter and brighter. This is due to the fact that when a new disease process captures more and more space of the urethra. It's still gonna take some time – and the disease will manifest itself badly enough that you would notice. And then you'll already difficult to treat urethritis.


Complications of urethritis

As for the male, the disease can become inflammation of the prostate gland. If we talk about the forecast the futureflow, here we can talk about Reiter's syndrome.

You can talk about the following complications of urethritis:
– inflammation of the seminal vesicles;
– inflammation of the testicle;
– balanitis and balanoposthitis;
– narrowing of the urethra.

As for female, it could be a cystitis, and in the future – a violation of microflora and of any other diseases of the urethra.