Epididymitis symptoms?

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Epididymitis is a common disease in young adults. Whenever the body's resistance is low, pathogenic bacteria such as Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus and Streptococcus will take the opportunity to enter the vas deferens and retrograde invade the epididymis, causing inflammation. Therefore, the disease is secondary to urethritis, prostatitis, seminal vesiculitis. Generally, patients with epididymitis will have induration. Induration mostly occurs in the head or tail of epididymis, mostly in the tail. After epididymis infection, nodules are often left in the tail or head. Epididymitis symptoms tell us.

Epididymitis symptoms?

Scrotum ache: epididymitis can have scrotum ache phenomenon. Scrotal pain often occurs suddenly, and can radiate to the groin area and lumbosacral area along the spermatic cord. The pain is usually severe, the tenderness is obvious, and the swelling progresses quickly. It can double the volume of epididymis within 3-4 hours, and secretion can appear in the urethra. At this time, it can be accompanied by cystitis and turbid urine. There is tenderness in inguinal area: the symptoms of male epididymitis are tenderness in inguinal area, scrotal enlargement, local skin redness and swelling, such as abscess formation, dry skin thinning, easy to fall off. Abscess can also break itself.

Chronic enlargement of testis: when suffering from epididymitis, the testis of men is chronic enlargement, hard and smooth, with mild tenderness and loss of normal sensitivity. Some testicles gradually shrink, and in severe cases, they can hardly touch the testis. Patients with bilateral chronic orchitis can often cause infertility. There is a sense of swelling and pain: in patients with epididymitis, chronic epididymitis is more common than acute epididymitis, and some patients turn to chronic epididymitis because they can not be cured in the acute stage. The symptoms of chronic epididymitis are various, including scrotal pain and swelling sensation. The pain can radiate to the lower abdomen and the inner thigh of the same side.

Epididymitis often occurs after heavy physical labor, such as lifting heavy objects. Can also appear after stronger sexual excitement. The patient's clinical symptoms are scrotal pain, often sudden, and can radiate along the spermatic cord to the groin area and lumbosacral. Pain is usually severe, tenderness is obvious, refuse to press, swelling progress faster, can make epididymis volume doubled in 3-4 hours, body temperature can reach about 40 degrees, urethral secretions can appear, at this time can be accompanied by cystitis, urine turbidity.

matters needing attention

In short, whether there is acute epididymitis or chronic epididymitis, we must pay attention to active treatment, but usually the most important thing is to prevent the occurrence of epididymitis, avoid some bad living habits, usually do not sedentary inactivity, do not eat some spicy food, do not drink a lot, these are good for the testis.