Symptoms of balanitis

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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. Prepuce balanitis symptom graph? Let's talk about it

Symptoms of balanitis

Acute superficial balanitis is 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.

The inflammation damage of glans and prepuce of cricoid erosive balanitis 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.

Plasmacytic balanitis is common in middle age. It is a single or multiple chronic inflammation lasting for a long time. The damage is plaque like, with smooth or desquamated or moist surface and obvious infiltration. The boundary is clear and not easy to break, and tiny spots like chili powder can be seen on the surface. It is difficult to distinguish from glans proliferative erythema. If similar damage occurs in the vulva, it is called plasma cell vulvitis.

matters needing attention

Clean the prepuce and glans frequently to keep the prepuce cavity clean and dry. We should pay attention to develop good health habits at ordinary times. Circumcision is a good prevention for those who have redundant prepuce or phimosis (prepuce can not be turned over). If the disease is found, the prepuce will be turned over in the affected area, soaked and cleaned with potassium permanganate solution, and antibiotics will be used appropriately, and the patients will be cured in a few days; If it is serious, effective treatment should be carried out under the guidance of doctors.