What is urinary discomfort?

Urination is something the human body needs to do every day. Urine can excrete excess water and other useless substances from metabolism. However, some people may experience urethral discomfort, pain, chills, or even blood in the urine when urinating. When this happens, people need to actively understand the cause and then treat it. Here we will introduce what disease urethral discomfort may be.

Urinary tract discomfort is usually caused by a disease called urethritis. The onset of symptoms is not as acute as that of gonorrhea, the symptoms are delayed, and the severity may change from mild to severe, but it is milder than gonorrhea. About 50% of patients experience symptoms such as urinary pain and urethral itching. It is easy to be missed during initial diagnosis. Non-gonococcal urethritis in women is milder, with no or mild pain when urinating, and a small amount of secretions may occur. Sometimes the cervix is ​​also inflamed or eroded, and there are many segmented white blood cells in the cervical secretions (more than 10 per field of view under high power microscope).

The symptoms of female urethritis will vary depending on the severity of the disease and each person's situation is different. Generally speaking, the symptoms of female urethritis are redness and swelling of the external urethral opening, with serous or purulent secretions on the surface. The onset is acute, usually without fever, and there are symptoms such as pain after urination, urgency, frequency, and turbid urine. Urinating occurs every few minutes, accompanied by a burning sensation and pain in the urethra, and blood can sometimes be seen in the turbid urine. When complicated by upper urinary tract infection (pyelonephritis), there are chills, fever, back pain and turbid urine, sometimes accompanied by gastrointestinal symptoms and systemic symptoms. The symptoms of female urethritis seriously endanger women's health, especially in summer. The reason why female urethritis likes to trouble women in hot seasons is that the female urethra is shorter and the urethral opening is near the perineum, making it easy for bacteria to invade the urethra; coupled with the high temperature, the human body sweats a lot, and the female vulva has particularly abundant sweat glands. If not properly cared for, it is easy for the vulva to be moist for a long time. At this time, bacteria will multiply very quickly and take advantage of the opportunity to enter the body, causing urethritis, leading to urethral congestion and edema, and symptoms such as frequent urination, urgency, and pain when urinating.

Classification of symptoms 1. Symptoms of gonococcal urethritis: abbreviated as gonorrhea, divided into acute gonorrhea and chronic gonorrhea. The main symptoms of acute gonorrhea are difficulty urinating and purulent discharge from the urethra. Most cases of chronic gonorrhea are a transformation from acute gonorrhea, and usually manifest as repeated attacks of urethritis symptoms. 2. Symptoms of acute urethritis: There is a lot of urethral secretions, which are mucus at first and then gradually become purulent. At the same time, there are frequent urination, urgency and pain when urinating. 3. Symptoms of non-gonococcal urethritis: The symptoms are milder than those of gonorrhea. There is an itching or burning sensation in the urethra, and occasionally a stinging sensation. There is secretion in the urethral opening, but the secretion is thinner than that of gonorrhea. It is clear or light yellow, and the amount of secretion is also less than that of gonorrhea. A small amount of secretions will only escape after a long period of not urinating or before the first urination in the morning. Sometimes it only manifests as crotch contamination, and sometimes the patient has no subjective symptoms. 4. Symptoms of chronic urethritis: little secretion, mild symptoms, and some patients are asymptomatic. It is often easily overlooked and misdiagnosed. 5. Purulent secretions appear in the urethra, which are mucous at first and gradually become purulent, accompanied by redness and swelling of the urethral orifice, mucosal eversion, urgency, frequency, pain, urethral stinging, mental depression, and in severe cases, chills, high fever, and difficulty urinating. Patients with chronic urethritis will have less secretions, and symptoms such as frequent urination, painful urination, and urgency will be alleviated during non-acute attacks, accompanied only by itching or a crawling sensation, and some patients may be asymptomatic. It is often easily overlooked and misdiagnosed.