What are the symptoms of urethritis in children?

Urethritis is a common disease of the urinary system. In most cases, urethritis is caused by people's care for private parts, or simply speaking, they do not pay attention to personal hygiene. Especially for female friends, it is best to clean private parts every day to avoid the invasion of bacteria and viruses. Clinically, there are many children who suffer from urethritis. So what are the symptoms of urethritis in children?

In children, mild urethritis may have no symptoms, with only bacterial growth in urine culture; in severe cases, there may be fever or no temperature rise, pale complexion, irritability or drowsiness, and some may also present with jaundice, convulsions or gastrointestinal symptoms. When infants and young children get sick, they have obvious systemic symptoms, such as fever, sallow complexion, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, abdominal distension, and may also have neurological symptoms such as restlessness, drowsiness, convulsions, and coma. When the urinary tract symptoms are mild, they only manifest as urinating.

Urethritis in children occurs in a similar way to that in adults. When suffering from pyelonephritis, there are fever, chills, and percussion pain in the kidney area (waist) on both sides; when suffering from cystitis, there are frequent urination, painful urination, and hematuria; when suffering from urethritis, there is a burning sensation and redness and swelling of the urethral opening. Chronic urinary tract infection is mostly caused by persistent acute urinary sensation. It can also be caused by urinary tract malformations. This is different from adults. The course of the disease is more than 6 months, or it relapses many times. The renal nature remains obvious, and the renal function is never restored and becomes chronic. The sick child may show symptoms of mental depression, fatigue, fragility, slow growth, progressive anemia, etc.

Because the urinary sensation in children is rarely limited to the above-mentioned parts and is sometimes difficult to identify, it is often collectively referred to as urinary tract defamation.

Acute urethritis is the most common in children. Its symptoms are not like the typical frequent urination, urgency and pain in adults. Its symptoms vary greatly. When newborns get sick, the severity of the illness varies.