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Symptoms of disease - pain in the penis

Penis (Latin pénis, Greek φάλλος phállos) - one of the external genital organs of the reproductive system of the man. Serves to remove urine from the bladder, disposal of sperm, as well as copulatory body.

In the penis distinguish the root or base (Latin rádix pénis), the body or the trunk (Latin córpus pénis) and head (Latin glans pénis). The barrel of the penis formed of two cavernous and one spongy bodies.
Cavernous and the sponge-like body composed of dense eyelids liner shell, from which the inside depart numerous bars - trabeculae, the intervals between which and form a "cave "or gaps (Latin cavérnae).

Cavernous of the body are located on the edges, sponge body - in the furrow between them, adhering to the bottom, together with passing in it thicker urethra channel or urethra (Latin uréthra). Sponge body at the end of the penis ends with a cone-shaped thickening - head of the penis. The edge of the head, covering the ends of cavernous bodies, merges with them, forming a thickening (whip) on the circumference, behind which is located crown furrow.

The glans penis is covered with a thin soft skin with a large number of people, producing smegma. Head, just as the body of the penis contains many loopholes, and when sexual excitation filling blood. In addition, it has a large number of nerve endings, making it the most sensitive part of the penis.

Outside the glans penis is covered with thin, easily sliding the skin - foreskin, passing in the skin of the vulva at the top and in the skin of the scrotum at the bottom. On the skin of the lower surface of the penis there is a seam that behind continues on the skin of the scrotum or perineum.

In the front part of the body of the penis skin forms a skin folds - the foreskin (Latin prepútium pénis), which fully or partially covers the head. The foreskin if it fully covers the head, usually easily slides back, exposing her. On the rear surface of the penis foreskin is connected with the head of the longitudinal folds, called the bridle (Latin frenulum praeputii). Between the head of the penis and foreskin has slit (preputial) cavity, finally formed to a two-year age of the child. In preputial bag usually accumulates smegma.

Which diseases there is pain in the penis

Causes of pain in the cap of the penis:

1. Pain in the cap of the penis is observed with fractures, abuses head.
Injury to the penis occurs when the impact of traumatic force on non-erected body. A peculiar views of damage to the penis is its infringement, which is observed, for example, when you drag a member of the thread, wire or cord when putting on at it of ring-shaped objects. The children of such damage are the result of the antics, and the adults or the result of masturbation, or attempts to prevent the leaking of urine or maintain an erection. Conservative treatment is subject to injury to the penis, and other types of injuries treated surgically.

2. Balanitis (inflammation of the glans penis) and...(inflammation of the foreskin) or a combination of both - balanoposthitis. The main cause of balanoposthitis is the accumulation of infection under the foreskin smegma - a particular matter. This happens when there is insufficient attention to the hygiene of the glans penis. Also the reason balanoposthitis is phimosis, and considerably less common purulent urethritis, allergic reaction, diabetes mellitus.
The disease begins with the appearance of the sense of stinging and itching in the area of the head of the penis, unpleasant sensation at the opening of the foreskin. Also there is pain or discomfort in the head during sexual intercourse. It is noted swelling and redness of the glans penis and the foreskin. If the disease is caused by phimosis, the preputial bag stands out pus or smegma with an unpleasant smell.
In connection with the constant irritation of the head of the penis, which is the main erogenous zone, in patients balanoposthitis increased sexual excitability.
In the absence of treatment after a time the head of the penis appear numerous small ulcers (peptic form balanoposthitis), which are accompanied by pain in the head while walking, urination and sexual intercourse. In the future, the absence of treatment is developing lymphangitis - inflammation of the lymphatic vessels of the penis, which manifested by red stripes on its back surface. Can further develop the inguinal lymphadenitis (inflammation of the inguinal lymph nodes) and gangrene of the penis.

3. Masturbation - pain in the cap sexual member, and redness of the skin is a natural phenomenon.

4. The cause of pain in the head of the penis may be phimosis. The vessel - the narrowing of external orifice of the foreskin. The first manifestations of phimosis usually become apparent with the beginning of puberty, when due to the rapid and uneven growth of the glans penis and the foreskin constriction of the increases. Arise micro tears the mucous membrane of the foreskin and additional cicatricial. The situation is getting worse with the advent of the erection of the boy.
However, it should be remembered that phimosis a teen may be temporary because of the inconsistency rates of growth of tissue and spontaneously to 15-16 years.
Symptoms phimosis are the inability or difficulty in opening the head of the penis. Pain, especially increasing when an erection, masturbation, sexual intercourse.

5. Paraphimosis. Infringement of the head of the penis when moving the foreskin over the head of the penis. The disease often develops in patients suffering phimosis.
Immediately after the infringement appear sharp pains in the head of the penis, pain and difficulty urinating. There are swelling of the head, blue-purple color of the, in later stages, ulceration, deep slipknot at the place of infringement.

Which doctor should I contact if there is a pain in the penis

• Urologist
• Venereologist

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