The comprehensive aspects of epididymo-orchitis
Epididymo-orchitis is the common disease in men. As an inflammation of the reproduction system, it bring pain and swelling around the testicles and may result in urine infection. But do you know the comprehensive information about it?
The comprehensive information includes:
1. The causes that may cause epididymo-orchitis.
In many cases, there are many causes that may involve in it, including sexually transmitted infection, the mumps virus, an operation or the medication. All of those are common causes. However, the uncommon causes may involve in the treatment, such as other viral infections, (thberculosis or brucellosis), schistosomiasis, behcet's disease, injury and others.
2. The person Who will get epididymo-orchitis more easier include:
According to the related report, the person aged 15--30 or aged over 60 will be infected by those factors we mentioned, however, there is no need to worry about so much because the epididymo-orchitis occurs in about 1 in 1,000 males. Over those years, the males are at greater risk of developing the disease according to the increasing amount of numbers.
3. The symptoms of epididymo-orchitis include:
Symptoms usually develop quickly over a day, and patients will have some symptoms like swelling in one or both testicle, if the diseases get worse, it may result an acute urinary tract infection with increased urinary frequency and urgency. For a certain patients, they may have the symptom like burning and inching around the opening of the penis
4. The tests needed include:
Many primary causes can be regarded as the factors of epididymo-orchitis as we mentioned, however, what is the real factor? We can not know the truth in the first time, thus the test, such as a urine test, a blood test, ultrasound, CT, MRL, can be used to check.
In addition, please talk with your doctor in advantage if you have genial chlamydia, urethristis or any other details.
5. The treatment methods for epididymo-orchitis.
Antibiotics are widely used for the treatment of epididymo-orchitis, generally speaking, your doctor may adverse your to take a course of antibiotic medicines and pain usually eases within a few days but swelling may take a week or ever longer because of the drug resistance. In addition, there are many other options like diuretic and anti-inflammatory pill.
Diuretic and anti-inflammatory pill is invented by Dr. Lee, an experienced doctor who is good at treating female and male reproductive and urinary system diseases, such as epididymo-orchitis, prostatitis, etc.
See your doctor, and he or she will tell you which is better for you!
