Due to the special physiological structure of women: wide, short and straight, once infected, it is easy to suffer from urethritis. Urethritis is one of the common infections in the female urinary and reproductive system, mainly divided into simple bacterial urethritis and non-gonococcal urethritis. Female urethritis is often manifested by symptoms such as frequent urination, urgent urination, and painful urination. The pain is like burning, which worsens during urination, and may even cause urethral spasm. So, what are the harms of urethritis? Experts from the Sanyin Hospital in Xi'an will explain it for everyone.
First, let's understand what urethritis is?
Urethritis is a common disease, clinically divided into acute and chronic types. It is more common in women, with E. coli, streptococcus, and staphylococcus being the most common pathogens. Urethritis is often caused by obstruction at the urethral opening or inside the urethra, such as phimosis, posterior urethral valves, urethral stricture, or stones and tumors inside the urethra, or due to the spread of inflammation from nearby organs to the urethra, such as prostatitis, vaginitis, and cervical inflammation; sometimes it can be caused by mechanical or chemical stimulation, such as instrument examination and indwelling catheterization.
Second, what causes urethritis in women?
There are many reasons for urethritis in women, such as poor hygiene, unclean sexual life, etc., and it is necessary to go to the urology department of the hospital for pathogen examination of secretions. If gonococcal infection is detected, it is gonorrhea; if mycoplasma or chlamydia is detected, it is non-gonococcal urethritis, both of which belong to specific infections, and there is also the possibility of general bacterial infection, i.e., non-specific infection. Through testing and clear diagnosis, targeted treatment can be carried out. If it is gonorrhea or non-gonococcal urethritis, it belongs to sexually transmitted diseases, and sexual intercourse should be prohibited during the course of the disease, and sexual partners should also be examined and treated simultaneously.
Finally, let's take a look at the hazards of urethritis in women?
1. Various stubborn symptoms: Patients with urethritis will experience symptoms such as painful urination, urgent urination, and frequent urination. When complicated with upper urinary tract infection (pyelonephritis), they will have shivering, fever, back pain, and dirty urine, sometimes accompanied by gastrointestinal symptoms and systemic symptoms. After bacteria infect the urethra, it will cause abscesses on the urethra, and the resulting scarring will lead to urethral stricture, making patients feel difficulty in urination and thin urine stream. In addition, symptoms such as increased secretion and external genital itching occur, and many women often cannot tolerate these symptoms and seek medical attention at the hospital.
2. The harm of urethritis lies in that it can trigger various complications: Untimely treatment of urethritis will lead to complications such as vaginitis, cervical inflammation, adnexal inflammation, endometritis, and pelvic inflammatory disease, among other gynecological diseases.
3. The most important impact of urethritis on women is affecting fertility: Prostate may be invaded and cause prostatitis, and patients will have perineal pain and lower back pain symptoms, which can severely lead to infertility. In addition, pregnant women with urethritis may cause miscarriage, stillbirth, ectopic pregnancy, low birth weight of newborns, purulent ophthalmia, conjunctivitis, respiratory infections, etc.
4. Cause arthritis: Severe infection can invade the knee joint and cause arthritis.
5. Infecting partners: Urethritis can be transmitted to partners through sexual intercourse, leading to cross-infection.
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