women's health urethral opening

The criteria for judging whether a female's urethral opening is healthy are very clear - there is no redness, swelling, itching, or stinging sensation in daily life, there is no burning, obstruction, or incomplete urination during urination, and there is no purulent/bloody abnormal secretion, which means it is considered healthy.； The vast majority of urethral orifice discomfort is related to external stimulation and infection in adjacent parts. Early intervention can almost lead to rapid recovery, and serious sequelae are rare.

I don’t say this casually. I have been in a gynecology clinic for almost 6 years, and more than 80% of the patients with urethral meatus-related discomforts that I have received are young women aged 20-35. To put it bluntly, most of them are minor problems caused by daily habits without paying attention. There was a young girl who just joined an Internet company. In the first week after joining the company, she just caught up with the launch of the project. She wore tight-fitting suit pants and thick safety pants every day. She sat for 10 hours without getting up and even forgot to drink water. When she got off work on Friday, she was so painful that she peeed and wiped out her vagina. There was a little bloodshot, and she thought she had contracted an unclean disease, so she came to register in tears. After a urine test, it was found to be ordinary bacterial urethritis. She was prescribed a few yuan of levooxygen and told her to wear loose pants and drink more water. She came back for a follow-up visit in three days and was told that everything was fine.

Speaking of this, some people must ask, do you need to use private parts lotion for daily care? Nowadays, the two factions are quarreling on the Internet. Let me tell you the truth: the mainstream advice in gynecological clinics is to just rinse the vulva with warm water every day. The mucosa of the urethral opening is more delicate than the mucous membrane of the lips. Even the care solutions that are promoted as "mild and non-irritating" mostly contain surfactants. Long-term use can easily destroy the local weakly acidic environment, wash away the resident lactobacilli, and instead make way for pathogenic bacteria such as E. coli and Staphylococcus aureus. However, some colleagues in the dermatology department will suggest that if you are a girl who often stays in hotels on business trips, loves to go to public swimming pools, or who sweats a lot, you can occasionally flush your vulva with a private parts care solution with a pH value between 4.5 and 5.5 (be careful not to wash it against the urethra or into the vagina). This can indeed reduce the risk of foreign germs attaching, and you don’t need to beat them to death. It all depends on your own lifestyle habits.

Oh, by the way, there is another trap that 90% of girls have stepped on, which is the direction of wiping after using the toilet. Not long ago, I had an old patient, a 28-year-old, who had suffered from urethritis for almost 2 years. She took a lot of medicine and changed lotions, but it was not easy. After asking for a long time, I found out that she had wiped her butt from back to front since she was a child. The E. coli near the anus rubbed into the urethral opening, causing repeated infections. After changing the habit of wiping from front to back, she has not had it again for almost half a year. Don’t think this is a trivial matter. The urethral opening is only a few centimeters away from the vaginal opening and anus. If you don’t pay attention, you will be targeted by germs in the adjacent parts. It is also best to urinate immediately after having sex. The flushing effect of urine can flush out the germs accidentally brought in. This little habit can help you avoid 80% of urethritis related to having sex.

Of course, not all urethral discomfort is a minor problem. If you have persistent tingling, blood in the urine, back pain, or even fever, don’t be scared after searching on Baidu, and don’t just buy antibiotics. Go to a community hospital for a routine urine test. The results will be available in half an hour for more than ten yuan. If combined with special infections such as chlamydia and gonococcus, symptomatic medication will cure it quickly. Chronic cystitis or pyelonephritis is a real trouble.

After all, there are really no complicated health tips for urethral health. Don’t always think that you need to wash it cleanly or apply any care products. It has its own defense mechanism. It’s better if you don’t mess it up more. If you really feel uncomfortable, don't bear it. Seeking a doctor from a regular hospital will be more effective than reading 100 popular science articles in Little Red Book.