Genital Herpes in Men

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     Information about HSV as the reason of diseases of urogenital system (US) in men is too limited. It is hard to estimate veritable role of HSV in the development of pathology of US in men. This is because there are often a few symptoms or even no symptoms at all. At the same time, males suffer from it to a lesser extent than women.

 

Herpes variety in men

     The most common picture of genital herpes is eruption. As a rule, such symptom is localized on balanus region. Blisters appear on the affected genital place. This process is usually painful and itching. Having genital problem, men complain about the pain in perineum and penis area. Inflammation may spread to contiguous organs (urethra, urinary bladder, prostate or testicles). So, HSV may be the reason of urethritis or prostatitis (men suffer from strangury). Genital herpes in women

     Not only women may have herpes with pictures as sores on thighs, but also males. It is considered that symptoms on thighs may be met more often in those, which like anal sex. Genital herpes long term effects

     Individual pictures of the urethra herpes show burning pain, sensation of heat, hyperesthesia during urination, colic at the beginning of it. Organs of US in men are in the close anatomical and physiological bond that doesn't allow to estimate results of laboratory examination mechanically. In such way, genital herpes detection in urine or urethra can confirm that prostate is also involved in malady.

     Main symptoms of herpetic cystitis are the appearance of pain at the end of urination, dysuric phenomena. But hematuria is a typical picture. Patients suffer from uresis disorders: changes of frequency, the character of stream and urinary output. Herpetic cystitis in men is, as a rule, secondary and appears as complication of chronic urethra or prostatitis HSV. Genital herpes pictures in men

     Affection of anal region and rectal ampulla (rectitis HSV) can be met in heterosexual as well as homosexual men. Recurrent fissure is usually the place of contagion. Genital herpes pictures in women

     When a patient has affection of sphincter and mucous tunic of rectal ampulla, he feels itch, burning and pain in the affected genital area. There could appear pictures as small erosions in the form of superficial fractures that bleed during defecation. Onset of eruption may be accompanied by sharp pain, meteorism, tenesmus that are the symptoms of fret of the pelvic nerve plexus.

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     If you look at the ideas of different scientists, prostatitis is caused or kept by simplex herpes in the 2,9- 21,8% cases. Chronic prostatitis is usually characterized by frequent and recurrent disposition.
In clinical practice such diagnose as chronic prostatitis is made by urologists very rarely. The reason of it may be that viral methods of diagnostics aren't inserted in standard examination of patient with such genital problem.