- Balanoposthitis - you need to find the reason
- You should not self-treat
What balanoposthitis, its types and causes of
Balanoposthitis - an inflammatory disease of the skin of the glans penis (balanitis) and the inner layer of the foreskin (post). These two diseases are usually combined and therefore have a common name - balanoposthitis.
Balanoposthitis can be simple, erosive krugovidnym, gangrenous, pustular, ulcer, a wrinkling of the glans penis and foreskin, chronic ulcerative hypertrophic.
Various forms of balanoposthitis have different origins, but occur in many respects similar.
Common symptoms of various origins balanoposthitis
Most often balanopostit starts with itching, which is particularly intense in the fungal origin of the disease. Almost always edematous by pulling the foreskin on the penis and the inside of the foreskin reveals intense inflammation and Moisture, causing the skin in this area reddens and swells. From the prepuce (the space under the foreskin) is poured stinking purulent fluid. Developing, inflammation can cause rejection of the surface layer of the skin of the head and the appearance on its surface erosions, abrasions, ulcerations. Temperature rises, there are malaise, headache, increased inguinal lymph nodes
Lymph nodes - what keeps our immune system
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Balanoposthitis may be complicated by phimosis (narrowing of the foreskin) or paraphimosis (infringement of the foreskin glans penis). In protracted course of the disease in the skin of the glans penis tissue proliferation occurs at the opening of the foreskin, and due to the increase of the glans penis is often produced numerous cracks that often ulcerate with subsequent scarring. In such cases, the process is complicated by phimosis.
Certain types of balanoposthitis
Simple balanoposthitis is the result of exposure to a number of stimuli - mechanical (a large amount of salts in the urine), chemical (use of too concentrated solutions of drugs in the treatment of urethritis), bacterial (irritation of the release of infectious urethritis). Trichomonas balanopostit occurs in combination with urethritis
Urethritis - a very male disease
or independently of it. Balanoposthitis caused by yeast, known as balanopostomikoza. It can occur through contact with women suffering from yeast fungal disease.
Erosive krugovidny balanopostit relatively rare form, which is called anaerobic (without developing air) bacteria in conjunction with a group of spirochetes, occurring on the genitals and in the mouth. The disease begins 36-48 hours after intercourse. At the head of the penis white spots (pockets of dead superficial skin layers), then the skin is torn away and form bright red erosion, which merge with each other, forming a vast surface, surrounded by whitish, some towering rim. With the increasing number of allocated pus inflammation increases, the body temperature rises, increasing swelling of tissues, until the appearance of phimosis.
Gangrenous balanopostit similar to the circular erosive and caused by the same infectious agents. Erosion become deeper, turning into ulcer covered with a gray-yellow. In some cases, the process ends with the formation of gangrene of the holes in the foreskin, and sometimes gangrene (necrosis) of the glans penis. Gangrenous balanopostit always complicated by phimosis
Phimosis - whether to go to extremes?
. The condition of patients severe, with high fever, headaches, vomiting. With the destruction of the blood vessels may begin bleeding.
Pustular ulcerative balanoposthitis caused by purulent infection and is characterized by the appearance after sexual contact in the inner layer of the foreskin and the glans multiple pustules with a dark-yellow contents. On opening, pustules turn into deep ulcers that then heal with scarring.
Shrinkage of the glans penis and foreskin (kraurosis) is relatively rare after the age of 50 years and is characterized by painful itching, progressive shrinkage of the inner layer of the foreskin and the glans penis skin, loss of elasticity of the surface and the kind of pigmentation changes (pallor). Later, the skin cracks and abrasions. The cause of the disease most commonly associated with hormonal disorders.
Treatment balanoposthitis
Treatment should be directed at eliminating the cause of the disease. Therefore, there is a compulsory microbiological examination of secretions: the cultivation and identification of the pathogen and determination of its sensitivity to antibiotics
Antibiotics - whether they will help you in the foreseeable future?
. According to the results of laboratory research treatment is prescribed.
Local lubricate the affected places 1-2% solution of silver nitrate. Preputial bag previously washed thoroughly with potassium permanganate. Balanoposthitis conducted in diabetic treatment of the underlying disease, with atrophy of the glans penis, restoring hormonal.
Galina Romanenko