Symptoms of gonococcal urethritis

The main symptoms of gonococcal urethritis:

(1) urine frequently for early symptoms of the disease. Anterior urethral burning sensation, tingling or burning hot pain, urination pain have worsened, rather then to the lower abdomen or spinal radiation. Night pain, the penis can occur in patients with "painful erection."

(2) The excess swelling pus through the urethra 12 to 24 hours after the pain slightly reduced, and began discharging thin mucus-like discharge, quantity, and then by 12 to 24 hours, emit large amounts of purulent secretions, 24-hour discharge pus 20 ~ 50ml. 2 ~ 3 days after the pus reduced, dense concentration, color changed from white to yellow-white or yellowish brown, and then by 3 to 4 days less and thick pus, morning due to pus accumulation in the urethra to form a pus membrane, known as the "subsistence", and the pain reduced urethra redness, was valgus shaped leaves are red and swollen inside the foreskin, and can develop balanitis, phimosis, etc. incarcerated. from http://www.tcmwell.com

(3), urinary urgency and urinary tract infection in general is similar to the result of inflammation caused by urethral sphincter contraction, urinary urgency at night staggering. In addition, the affected area due to inflammation of the mucous membrane of small blood vessels, but also often a "terminal hematuria." Sometimes with blood sperm.

(4) will appear on perineal bulge pain in the perineum bulge of clinical pain, suggesting that disease has been up assault urethra, prostate and seminal vesicle and so on.

(5), systemic symptoms of individual patients will have systemic symptoms such as fever (body temperature of 38 ℃ or so), and general malaise weakness, discomfort, loss of appetite, or nausea and vomiting.

(6) examination: urethra and into the swollen sinus congestion, edema, and sometimes there are small, superficial abscesses, erosions or small ulcers. Severe valgus urethral mucosa, redness and swelling spread to the entire glans, glans and foreskin valgus, the foreskin can not be turned on and oppression of the urethra may be out of pus. Both sides of the inguinal lymph node involvement can also cause swelling, spasm pain, suppuration, with marked tenderness, and as a reduction in urethritis patients decrease inflammation disappeared after 2 ~ 3 days, lymph node inflammation disappeared. http://www.tcmwell.com

(7) The course of evolution: the first week of symptoms of most, if not treated or treatment is not timely, not completely, about 2 ~ 3 weeks after the symptoms gradually reduced, urethral secretions decrease tissue swelling has subsided, one month after the symptoms completely disappear. But the gonococcus has been penetrated at this time of deep glands, and even hidden in the growth of scar tissue slowly and developed into chronic gonorrhea, urethral stricture may occur later.







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