What symptom does balanitis have?

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Balanitis refers to the inflammation of the inner prepuce and glans penis. A normal prepuce cavity endocrine lipid material, in the foreskin is too long or phimosis, this kind of material can accumulate into prepuce scale, stimulate prepuce and glans, cause prepuce balanitis. The disease can also be caused by bacterial or fungal infection or drug allergy. What symptom does balanitis have? Let's talk about it

What symptom does balanitis have?

Candidal prepuce balanitis: it is more common in redundant prepuce, history of unclean sexual intercourse, slight flushing of penile prepuce and glans, white cheese like secretion in prepuce inner plate and glans coronal groove, pinhead sized light red papules in glans, and scaly erythema can be seen if it invades prepuce and scrotum. If the navicular fossa is involved, there may be frequent urination, dysuria, etc. Local burning sensation and pruritus can be found. Occasionally, fulminant edematous balanitis can occur, which is mainly manifested as obvious edema and itching of penile prepuce, with superficial ulcer.

Acute superficial balanitis: mostly caused by underwear friction, trauma or local stimulation of soap and detergent. Edema, erythema, exudation, erosion, secondary infection, purulent secretions, easy to form ulcers, conscious pain.

Cricoid erosive balanitis: the inflammation damage of glans and prepuce is cricoid, or cricoid with cheese like prepuce scale. It is easy to break into shallow ulcer over time. If it loses the cricoid feature, it is not easy to distinguish from superficial balanitis. The disease may exist alone or as a mucosal symptom of Reiter syndrome.

matters needing attention

1. Keep local clean to prevent secondary infection. Local application of iodine fluoride solution or with anti-inflammatory ointment. Allergic prepuce balanitis should be treated with oral antiallergic drugs and pine ointment for external use. 2. 3% boric acid water or 0.1% rivanol can be used for wet packing. 3. Corticosteroid cream can be used in non infectious subacute stage. 4. The soft ointment of tetracycline can be used in chronic period or dry desquamation.