Due to their anatomical structure, the male genital organs are exposed to constant contact with the environment, which increases the risk of infection and spread of infection. Redness on the head and foreskin is a fairly common phenomenon and occurs in every tenth man. An unpleasant disease is called balanoposthitis and can appear at any age and has various causes.
Despite its apparent harmlessness, it can lead to very serious and dangerous consequences. An infection or fungus can cause a serious illness that requires long-term and expensive treatment if you do not seek medical help in time.
What are the causes of the disease, how is it treated and are there any preventive measures, explains urologist-andrologist Alexander Anatolyevich Tsybulin.
What complications can there be?
To effectively treat redness of the glans and foreskin, you must consult a doctor at the first sign.
Otherwise, cicatricial phimosis will cause discomfort. This is a pathology that is characterized by deformation of the tissues of the penis. As a result of constant inflammation and deformation, scars form on the tissues. The foreskin gradually narrows, causing the development of phimosis.
In the absence of therapy at this phase, paraphimosis develops - a pathological condition in which the head is pinched. The condition is usually accompanied by painful swelling.
If the form is advanced and without timely treatment, surgical intervention may be required. Also a serious danger is posed by atrophy of the head receptors with a decrease in sensitivity, which, in turn, leads to erectile dysfunction and decreased libido. This negatively affects the quality of sexual life.
With prolonged redness of the head of the penis and foreskin, without timely medical intervention, urethritis develops. Gradually, the infection leads to the development of complications: prostatitis, cystitis, pyelonephritis, orchiepididymitis.
Causes of the disease
The main factors for the spread of infection are:
- poor hygiene;
- the use of antiseptic solutions after sexual intercourse;
- frequent washing of the genitals with soap, leading to skin irritation;
- mechanical damage to tissue integrity;
- uncontrolled treatment with antibacterial drugs;
- anatomical features of the structure;
- hormonal imbalances;
- the presence of certain autoimmune diseases;
- infections.
The disease can be caused not only by sexual (genital) contact, but also by oral and anal contact. Sometimes six months pass before the first symptoms appear.
Symptoms
- Burning in the genital area.
- Pain during sexual intercourse, when urinating.
- Swelling, sharp and burning sensation.
- Exposing the head becomes difficult and pain occurs.
If you have unpleasant symptoms, there is no need to self-medicate and try to find an ointment or gel on your own that will relieve burning and swelling. This always leads to the development of even greater complications, and the infection goes deep into the genitourinary tract.
Pain when touching the head, foreskin ring
Created: 06/07/16
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Urology
Asked by: Armen
Hello Elena Yuryevna, My name is Armen, I’m from Yerevan. I am writing to you out of deep despair, since the local urologists apparently do not understand how to help me and do not understand what my problem is, and I am explaining it in detail and asking you to read to the end to understand what my problem is, maybe your advice will help me. I didn’t know that the head needed to be opened and washed since childhood and only learned about it at the age of 20. Before this, my head did not open in more than one condition, and if it even opened a little in a dream, then upon contact with the underwear there was a terrible pain, reminiscent of an electric shock, the color was dark purple. Now I’m trying to wash it every day, but only with warm water, and I’ve been using baby soap for 4 days now, that is, I’ve been spreading the baby soap on the skin of the foreskin. soap, rub, and then open and close on the head and foreskin, as if spreading the soap over the head, since when washing with ordinary soap it begins to hurt unpleasantly and burn, even in the urethra, with baby soap it is also unpleasant, but still a slight burning sensation Sometimes it takes 10-15 minutes. But it is impossible to touch and rub the head properly because of the pain. My complaint to urologists was and is to this day pain when touching the head, which has decreased very slightly since for several years now I have been regularly trying to touch the head for several years, but very gently, since the pain persists when touched and resembles a current, I'm even afraid to touch. When I say that my head hurts when touched, urologists tell me “Your head can’t hurt, you have self-hypnosis associated with psychological factors,” but believe me, everything is fine with my head :)). I forgot what sex is, of course, I was always afraid of sex from a young age because of the pain, but I didn’t dare to go to the urologist before that, and I made my first attempt at intercourse two years ago, but because of the pain when touching a woman, I couldn’t even begin , neither follow through nor put on a condom, because of the same pain. I am now 28 years old, I was examined by 16 urologists, they took tests on the imprint from the head, scraping, urine, blood, sperm and hormones, even when taking a scraping and smear I almost died from pain :) They said that my stress hormone is high, I still have neurosis for a long time and the usual sedatives do not help me or help me a little, but it has intensified due to this problem, since I can’t think about anything else, the rest of the tests are favorable, according to them, I took them 4-5 months back. 13 of the urologists said to do circumcision, but when I asked why, if it would help me, they said there was no guarantee, but the sensitivity would decrease slightly (20-30%) due to cutting off the epithelium. One of them said that I have a hypersensitive head and this will not help me, even so I can become disabled, since I cannot even engage in ononism due to the lack of skin. They advised to smear Emla cream on the head before sex (lidocaine, prilocaine 5 percent), which caused an allergic reaction, the veins seemed to come out of the head, it was painful and the color turned blue and was cured by chamomile tincture for two weeks, regular lidocaine, which extended the time during ononism, but did not reduce the pain, according to the neurologist, I even did light head massages and a contrast shower with lidocaine cream for 5 days in a row, that is, 5 cups of slightly hot and very cold water alternately, I also used zalain cream, laticort, levomekol, anesthesin during the attempt sexual intercourse, I also applied lubricant, but no changes. Periodically I make baths with soda, chamomile, potassium permanganate, betodinokom, furatsilina sand, I did them for one month. I engage in masturbation probably once or twice a month, the erection subsided a little due to passivity and during masturbation, when the erection begins, the penis stands up and within a few seconds can even begin to fall, then during the course of masturbation it still rises and can fall again, and so on until the last erection and ejaculation. The color of the head is red-violet-purple and slightly gray behind, closer to the frenulum, which sometimes becomes dark gray behind. The first time when the head did not open and I turned to a urologist at the age of 20, he advised me to take baths with soda and the head opened and the pain was wild when touched, but the head does not open in the usual way, the skin of the foreskin forms a ring and it goes down. Doctors say that paraphimosis can occur during sexual intercourse or masturbation, so you need to have circumcision, although they said that the narrowing is very minor and at the moment there is no urgent need to have surgery. But how can I do it if the head remains open and if the pain doesn’t go away, then I’ll even forget about masturbation, and I’m very afraid, to be honest. And one more thing I don’t understand is if there is hypersensitivity, then how is it that during normal masturbation my duration is 10-30 minutes, even sometimes more? Smegma appears often, and sometimes on this ring and spreads to the head immediately after washing with warm water, but this does not always happen, and when it does happen, it is sometimes in the morning. I don’t know if it’s from self-hypnosis or not, but it seems to me that the foreskin has thickened quite a bit lately, probably because of this ring. I’m thinking about plastic surgery of the foreskin, but I read that after it the skin can scar and phimosis can begin again or develop into paraphimosis. I also watched a video with circumcision and denervation. The neurologist said that the operation was not advisable for me, since due to scarring, pain could begin in the scar and always cause discomfort when wearing underwear. I'm really confused and don't know what to do. Please advise what I should do and what to do with this hypersensitivity (if it really exists and/or there is no other serious illness), how to get rid of pain when touching the head and during sex, how can I understand what’s going on with me? As for phimosis, most urologists say that there is none, but how does the skin form a ring then, I think there is still phimosis, but probably at the mildest stage. I am against circumcision, because I am sure that my pain is connected specifically with the head or its nerves, since there is a state of current and acute pain, especially from the back of the head with slightly strong or unexpected touches. I would like to add to the above that after masturbation the head is slightly it swells and becomes a darker purple color and is generally painful to touch. I don’t know what is causing this problem, have you encountered such patients in your practice? I am more inclined to plastic surgery of the foreskin in order to somehow regulate this ring and prevent the possibility of paraphimosis or swelling of the glans after masturbation. Urologists said that there is a type of plastic surgery with an incision in the foreskin from above like the English letter V of 1-1.5 cm. I would also like to add that urologists advised me to wear panties on my bare head, and I stayed like that for several hours a day for almost a year, or even slept all night like that, but the pain never disappeared and it was normal to touch the head, for example rubbing your hands while washing is simply impossible and the hygiene of the head also suffers, since the smegma still remains, I only wash with warm water several times a day, I don’t know if there are medicinal creams that can be used as painkillers during sex, except for lidocaine, and Emla cream with it, it caused me an allergy. I also have a certain weakness, as if associated with neurosis, and when I touch the head, this feeling of weakness also covers me, but rather a current. There is no pain without touching the head. Sometimes it happens that in the morning I get up, the underwear is stuck to the frenulum and then the edge of the frenulum hurts. In the morning, erections have been very rare in recent months, I think because of this. The colors of the head change, maybe the light also falls and is not always clearly visible at night; the head takes on a darker color. Also, after ononism, red dots appear on the head, which then probably disappear after a few minutes, and sometimes white balls seem to appear on the head, I think as a reaction to ononism, which again quickly disappear. I also noticed that on the corolla of the head the vein in the middle is slightly enlarged and when touched it’s just unpleasant, I don’t know what’s causing it. I lost my head. I'm also terribly worried about the color of the head, which darkens at the back. The tests are favorable, but I think something hidden is going on and the urologists don’t understand. One Russian urologist, Vladimir Yuryevich Startsev, even said that this could be a hidden inflammation of the mucous membrane, which tests sometimes do not show, but he did not say how to treat it. One sexologist advised not to do circumcision, but to take baths with oak bark and, using some special device, pull back the foreskin, enlarging the ring, but I don’t know if it’s worth it, what would you recommend? I think the main thing is to find out whether there is hidden inflammation or not, and if there is hypersensitivity, what is it caused by? They also advised me to do aggravation, although I don’t understand why, and also an injection of glouronic acid into the frenulum, but how does this differ from the same injection into the glans and is it not fraught with necrosis or another disease? I told you all the details of my problem, I will probably do plastic surgery of the foreskin. Please answer me, I can give you photographs of the head and even small videos where you can see how it opens, how it stands up during ononism, send the ejaculation process, where you can see the ring and I can also send the color of the head and penis during erection and tests if it is convenient for you. I look forward to your response and advice. Best regards, Armen.
How to treat?
Prevention of the disease is the best way to avoid serious consequences. And a significant role in this belongs to compliance with the rules of personal hygiene.
If you notice the first signs, it is important to immediately consult a doctor who will prescribe the correct treatment. A paid urologist will conduct an examination and prescribe appropriate treatment.
The private medical clinic “Doctor Anna” has all the necessary equipment to diagnose the disease and invites you to undergo an examination. Experienced specialists will diagnose, identify the causes of the disease and select an effective course of therapy.
