Little boy urinates painfully

Since children are young and often cannot express when they are unwell, parents need to pay more attention and observe them. Everyone knows that the urethra is an important excretory organ of the human body. If a little boy experiences pain when urinating, it may be caused by urethral damage or bacterial infection. Parents must not be careless and need to take their children to the hospital for examination and treatment as soon as possible to avoid delaying the disease. Here are some of the reasons why urination can be painful in little boys.

Symptoms of painful urination in little boys:

1. Sudden interruption of urination accompanied by pain or urinary retention: seen in bladder, urethral stones or urinary tract foreign bodies.

2. Difficult urination accompanied by distension and pain: This often indicates prostate hyperplasia in elderly men and can also be seen in urethral stones.

3. Stinging or burning pain during urination: It is more common in acute inflammatory stimulation, such as acute urethritis, cystitis, prostatitis, and pyelonephritis.

4. If there is obvious pain at the beginning of urination, or if there is difficulty urinating, the lesion is mostly in the urethra, which is common in acute urethritis. This is one of the common phenomena of urinary pain.

5. If there is obvious pain at the end of urination, pain still exists after urination, or a feeling of "empty pain", or pain occurs even without urination, the lesions are mostly in the urethra or adjacent organs, such as trigone inflammation, prostatitis, etc.

6. If there is pain at the end of urination and urgency, the lesion is mostly in the bladder, which is common in acute cystitis.

Causes of painful urination

1. Urethritis

Urethritis refers to the invasion of the urethra by bacteria, diseases/viruses and other pathogens, causing inflammation, which in turn stimulates the urethra and affects urination. It is the main cause of painful urination. When male patients are in the acute stage of urethritis, they will also have purulent secretions. A smear of the secretions or a urine bacterial culture can be done to confirm which pathogen is causing the disease.

2. Cystitis

Cystitis is an inflammation that occurs in the bladder area. Most cases are caused by urethral infection that retrogrades to the bladder, so cystitis is often accompanied by chronic urethritis. When urinating, the bacteria-laden urine in the bladder stimulates the urethra, causing a noticeable burning sensation, pain during urination, lower abdominal pain at the end of urination, turbid urine, and sometimes hematuria.

When doing urine bacterial culture, it can be found that the number of bacteria per milliliter of urine exceeds 100,000. If not treated in time, it will turn into chronic cystitis, which will be protracted and difficult to cure. At this time, if you take diuretic and anti-inflammatory pills that have the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, and promoting diuresis and relieving stranguria for treatment, the disease can be cured quickly.

3. prostatitis

Prostatitis can also cause pain during urination, and the pain is most obvious at the end of urination. After urination, the pain is still felt, similar to the feeling of "empty pain".

Recent studies have shown that through prostatitis urodynamic examination, it was found that after men suffer from prostatitis, the posterior urethral pressure increases significantly, causing the capacity of the posterior urethral smooth muscle of the prostate to increase, causing urine to flow back to the prostate. The uric acid in the urine will produce a chemical stimulation, causing prostate patients to experience symptoms such as painful urination and groin pain.

To sum up, when men experience pain during urination, they should actively cooperate with the examination to confirm what disease is causing it.

Generally speaking, the first thing you need to do is a routine urine test to check whether there are abnormalities such as red blood cells, white blood cells, pus cells, etc. in the urine, to help determine the cause of painful urination. Combined with its clinical symptoms, it can be determined whether it is caused by other diseases.

Precautions

1. Drink more water. Urine with high concentration can stimulate urination pain, and long-term stimulation can cause damage to urination pain. Drinking more water and urinating more can dilute the blood and reduce urine concentration.

2. Don’t hold your urine. Whether it is a man or a woman, the harm caused by holding urine for a long time is very great. Holding urine is not good for the bladder and urination pain, and it is easy to cause urinary tract infection. Especially for working people, they often neglect urination after being busy all day and are used to holding the urge to urinate, which is very bad for the body.

3. Take a warm bath. Taking a warm bath can relieve muscle tension and urination pain, and alleviate discomfort. Taking a warm bath regularly is undoubtedly very beneficial for patients with urination pain.

4. Keep it clean. The male scrotum is highly elastic and secretes more sweat. In addition, the genitals have poor ventilation, which makes it easy for dirt and filth to accumulate. Local bacteria often take advantage of the opportunity to enter, which can cause pain during urination and even affect physiological functions. Therefore, keeping the perineum clean is an important part of preventing painful urination.