What to do if urethritis recurs

Urethritis is a very common gynecological disease, which also brings a lot of trouble to women's private parts. If a woman suffers from urethritis, she will feel itching or pain in the vagina and will feel very uncomfortable when urinating. Moreover, the probability of recurrence of urethritis is also very high. If women do not take good care of their genitals, it is very likely to cause recurrence of urethritis. So, what should I do if urethritis recurs?

What physical discomfort does urethritis cause in women?

Urethritis is a common disease, more common in women. It is clinically divided into acute and chronic, nonspecific urethritis and gonococcal urethritis. The latter two have similar clinical manifestations and must be differentiated based on medical history and bacteriological examination. The most common symptoms of urethritis in general patients may include the following: frequent urination, urgent urination, and painful urination. These are relatively typical symptoms. There may even be a burning sensation, difficulty urinating, and a dry mouth or itching in the morning. When these symptoms occur, women must pay attention.

The urethral discharge is scanty, thin, mucous or mucopurulent. If you do not urinate for a long time (such as when you wake up in the morning), a small amount of thin secretions may overflow from the urethra. Sometimes the only manifestation is a scab blocking the urethra or staining underwear in the morning. During the examination, the anterior urethra needs to be squeezed from back to front to allow a small amount of secretions to overflow from the urethral opening.

Urethritis generally does not affect menstruation, but it may cause changes in the menstrual cycle. However, urethritis can have a great impact on women's physical health, so it is necessary to go to the hospital for examination and treatment in time. If urethritis is not treated in time, it will not only cause serious discomfort to the patient's body, but also cause other gynecological diseases. Therefore, once patients with urethritis experience irregular menstruation, they must be vigilant, because irregular menstruation indicates that there is a malfunction in the normal physiological process of women, and it is very likely that other gynecological diseases exist together with urethritis.

Urethritis has a lot of impacts on women's lives and is also harmful to women's bodies. Therefore, if women find that they have urethritis, they must go to the hospital for an examination. For the treatment of urethritis, we must adhere to the principle of early detection, early control, and early treatment. This will prevent our bodies from suffering more damage and causing more complications.

What are the causes of recurrent urethritis?

Many women with urethritis have such a question, that is, they have obviously adopted many treatment methods to treat their urethritis, and they also pay attention to diet and work and rest in their daily life, but they can't see obvious effects, and they will have repeated attacks. They can't find the reason, which is very distressing. Today, let's take a look at the reasons for the repeated attacks of urethritis.

1. Failure to ensure adequate course of treatment: Mycoplasma and Chlamydia are intracellular parasitic microorganisms that are not as sensitive to antibiotics as ordinary bacteria, so the duration of medication should be relatively long, generally about two weeks. It is best for patients not to buy medicines blindly and take them on their own, as this may cause pathogens to come into contact with the drugs without being killed and become resistant.

2. Mixing of multiple drugs: The interactions between drugs are complex and changeable. In general, no more than two drugs should be used simultaneously to treat nongonococcal urethritis unless synergistic or complementary effects are known between them. Because doing so is often harmful rather than helpful. For example, mutual antagonism between drugs will reduce the efficacy and increase the number of drug-resistant strains of pathogens, making further treatment more difficult.

3. Failure to use targeted medication based on pathogens: In addition to the more familiar mycoplasma and chlamydia, 10%-20% of the disease can be caused by Trichomonas vaginalis, Candida albicans, Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus, yeast, anaerobic Gram-negative bacilli, etc. Therefore, the treatment of non-gonococcal gonorrhea should vary from person to person, and the medication should be determined according to the infecting microorganism. Avoid improper treatment in the early stages of the disease, blind use of medication, destruction of the internal environment, and bacterial resistance, resulting in poor therapeutic effects.

4. Concealing examination and treatment from sexual partners: For various reasons, some people contract STDs but do not want to let their families know, so they also neglect the diagnosis and treatment of their sexual partners, resulting in repeated infections. This does not mean that the treatment is ineffective.

There must be a reason for the recurrence of urethritis, such as not ensuring the course of treatment, not prescribing the right medicine, not receiving timely treatment, or using many drugs at the same time, which leads to ineffective treatment. Therefore, when we find that urethritis recurs, we must first find the cause of the recurrence, and then look for a solution based on the cause, so as to avoid another attack.

What should patients with urethritis pay attention to?

Every disease has certain precautions. If you don't pay attention to some details, it will have a great impact on your condition. So no matter what disease we have, we must understand the precautions and contraindications of this disease, so that we can ensure that our condition will not recur or be unhealed for a long time. So if we are infected with urethritis, what should we pay attention to?

1. Avoid sexual activity before urethritis is cured. During the period of 2 to 4 weeks after the symptoms of urethritis completely disappear, condoms should be used correctly during sexual intercourse; during the treatment period, the precautions for urethritis include abstaining from alcohol, spicy food, and drinking plenty of water.

2. Drinking more water is good for your health. For patients with urethritis, drinking plenty of water can increase urine volume, which can flush urethral secretions during urination. At the same time, they should pay attention to rest, avoid sexual intercourse in the short term during the acute phase, and do not abuse antibiotics for treatment.

3. The treatment of urethritis should be early, sufficient and standardized, and sensitive drugs should be used for treatment, while overtreatment should be avoided. Inadequate drug dosage, drug abuse or drug insensitivity can promote the development of drug resistance in pathogens.

4. If you have symptoms of sexually transmitted diseases such as urethritis, or suspect you have a sexually transmitted disease, go to a regular hospital as soon as possible, and do not seek medical treatment based on false or exaggerated advertisements, so as not to delay the disease and miss the opportunity for treatment.

5. If the sexual partner is infected, he/she should be treated at the same time. If a patient's symptoms persist after treatment, or if symptoms disappear and then recur, the most likely cause is an untreated sex partner. If the patient has sexual intercourse with an untreated sexual partner, the bacteria may be transmitted to the patient again by the untreated sexual partner. It should be noted that 40% of patients with non-gonococcal urethritis do not have any symptoms. Therefore, not only the patients themselves need treatment, but their sexual partners should also receive preventive drug treatment. For patients who have been treated in multiple hospitals but have not been cured. To understand the condition and treatment in detail.

Patients with urethritis must restrain their sexual behavior in normal times. When they are sick, they should not eat spicy and irritating foods. Also, they should not take drugs to treat urethritis without following the doctor's advice. This is very detrimental to their condition. There are still many things to pay attention to with urethritis. I also hope that the above-mentioned precautions will be helpful to everyone.