What is orchitis?
Orchitis is an inflammation of one or both testicles, most commonly associated with the virus that causes mumps. At least one-third of males who contract mumps after puberty develop orchitis.
What are orchitis causes?
Orchitis may be caused by an infection from many different types of bacteria and viruses.
The most common virus that causes orchitis is mumps. It most often occurs in boys after puberty. Orchitis usually develops 4 - 6 days after the mumps begins. Because of childhood vaccinations, mumps is now rare in the United States.
Orchitis may also occur along with infections of the prostate or epididymis.
Orchitis may be caused by sexually transmitted infection (STI) such as gonorrhea or chlamydia. The rate of sexually transmitted orchitis or epididymitis is higher in men ages 19 - 35.
Risk factors for sexually transmitted orchitis include:
- High-risk sexual behaviors
- Multiple sexual partners
- Personal history of gonorrhea or another STD
- Sexual partner with a diagnosed STD
Risk factors for orchitis not due to an STD include:
- Being older than age 45
- Long-term use of a Foley catheter
- Not being vaccinated against the mumps
- Problems of the urinary tract that occurred at birth (congenital)
- Regular urinary tract infections
- Surgery of the urinary tract (genitourinary surgery)
What are orchitis symptoms?
- Orchitis symptoms include:
- Blood in the semen
- Discharge from penis
- Fever
- Groin pain
- Pain with intercourse or ejaculation
- Pain with urination (dysuria)
- Scrotal swelling
- Tender, swollen groin area on affected side
- Tender, swollen, heavy feeling in the testicle
- Testicle pain that is made worse by a bowel movement or straining
How is orchitis diagnosed?
Tests that your doctor may use to diagnose orchitis and to rule out other causes of your testicle pain include:
A physical exam. A physical exam may reveal enlarged lymph nodes in your groin and an enlarged testicle on the affected side; both may be tender to the touch. Your doctor also may do a rectal examination to check for prostate enlargement or tenderness.
STI screening. This involves obtaining a sample of discharge from your urethra. Your doctor may insert a narrow swab into the end of your penis to obtain the sample, which will be viewed under a microscope or cultured to check for gonorrhea and chlamydia.
Urinalysis. A sample of your urine, collected either at home first thing in the morning or at your doctor's office, is analyzed in a lab for abnormalities in appearance, concentration or content.
Ultrasound imaging. This test, which uses high-frequency sound waves to create precise images of structures inside your body, may be used to rule out twisting of the spermatic cord (testicular torsion). Ultrasound with color Doppler can determine if the blood flow to your testicle is reduced or increased, which helps confirm the diagnosis of orchitis.
Nuclear scan of the testicles. Also used to rule out testicular torsion, this test involves injecting tiny amounts of radioactive material into your bloodstream. Special cameras can then detect areas in your testicles that receive less blood flow, indicating torsion, or more blood flow, confirming the diagnosis of orchitis.
How is orchitis treated?
Treatments may include:
- Antibiotics -- if the infection is caused by bacteria (in the case of gonorrhea or chlamydia, sexual partners must also be treated)
- Anti-inflammatory medications
- Pain medications
- Bed rest with the scrotum elevated and ice packs applied to the area
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Ozone treatment, can chlamydia infection be cured by this treatment?
There is no doubt that women who are tortured by chlamydia infection for years and years are familiar with it and even hate it. Once women are affecting this disease, complications like pelvic inflammatory diseases, cervicitis and endometritis can be induced quickly, thus it is a dangerous disease that can damage women's reproductive system severely. However, its morbidity is increasing instead of reducing. Commonly, the usual treatment of chlamydia infection is antibiotics, but this treatment has so many weaknesses such as drug resistance, high relapse rate and incomplete treatment.
Why is Fuyan Pill a Better Treatment Option for Chlamydia in Women?
More and more women complain that their chlamydia infection can’t be cleared thoroughly. Untreated chlamydia infections can spread upward to the uterus and fallopian tubes (tubes that carry fertilized eggs from the ovaries to the uterus), causing pelvic inflammatory disease (PID).
In addition, in pregnant women, untreated chlamydia infection has been associated with pre-term delivery, and can spread to the newborn, causing an eye infection or pneumonia. Thus, untreated chlamydia infection can cause many serious problems. Women should get it treated thoroughly.
Though chlamydia can be easily treated and cured with antibiotics, Antibiotics are always with their side effects. They cannot be used for a long time and may cause damage to the kidneys and liver. It is reported by some patients that the longer they take antibiotics, the worse they feel, other than the decrease of symptoms.
Nowadays, some women with untreated chlamydia infection started to take herbal medicine named Fuyan Pill. However herbal remedies are all made by herbs or insects in the nature, they're almost as safe as foods. Some special herbs which can milden toxicity of some herbs are added inthe formula is necessary. As a result, prescribed herbal formula seldom causes any side effect. That is why Fuyan Pill could be a better treatment option for chlamydia in women.
What’s more, Fuyan Pill is made up from multiple herbs including Bupleurum falcatum L., poria cocos, radices scutellariae, Gardenia, Atractylodes ovata, etc. Among which some herbs are highly powerful in killing bacteria, virus, and all the pathogen to cause infections. With other herbs which can clear up "fire" and toxic materials, and herbs which can promote blood and Qi circulation, inflammation such as PID caused by chlamydia infection can be treated as well.
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Why prostatitis can cause bloody urine to men?
The major symptoms of prostatitis is urinary tract symptoms, but one of the most important symptom is bloody urine. What is bloody urine? It is a kind of urine that has blood in it. There are two kinds of bloody urine. Frist type can be seen by eyes and the second cannot be seen by eye, but blood cells can be found under microscope. The first type is severer than the second type for there are a lot of blood in urine.
Sex guideline to prostatitis patients
According to Dr. Lee, the chief doctor from Wuhan Dr. Lee's TCM clinic, prostate is an important sexual gland, so men's sexual life can be affected greatly if having problems on this gland. However, prostatitis patient also cannot say no to sex because proper sex is good for prostate, so how to have sex with partners? Here, Dr, Lee will give prostatitis patients some advises.
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