What are the complications caused by ureaplasma?

Ureaplasma urealyticum is a pathogen that parasitizes the genitourinary tract, inhabits there, and causes cell damage through various mechanisms, thereby harming the human body. So what kind of complications does this pathogen cause?

1. Non-gonococcal urethritis: urethritis caused by chlamydia or mycoplasma is called non-gonococcal urethritis, and ureaplasma ureaplasma is one of the important pathogens. It is more common in young people and presents with urgency, dysuria, itching or dysuria in the urethra, and sticky discharge or crust at the urethral meatus, which is similar to gonorrhea and milder than gonorrhea, but cannot be distinguished by clinical symptoms and relies on laboratory tests.

2. Acute epididymitis: sudden pain and enlargement of the epididymis, the pain radiates to the ipsilateral groin or lower abdomen, often recurring due to urinary tract infection, which can turn into a chronic process, with obvious scrotal falling sensation and epididymal pain.

3、prostatitis: Prostatitis caused by ureaplasma infection is non-certainBacterial prostatitis, most of which are acute, and the typical symptoms are white dripping of urine, incomplete drainage after urine, and the external urethral opening is adhered by secretions.

4. Male infertility: the relationship between male infertility and ureaplasma has attracted more and more attention, and some scholars have investigated 921 cases of sterile male ureaplasma culture, 511 cases of positive, accounting for 55.48%, while 132 cases of normal fertility group, 25 cases were positive, accounting for only 18.93%.

5. Female infertility: Ureaplasma urealyticum in the male genitourinary system can enter the female reproductive tract with sperm, causing endometritis, salpingitis, oophoritis, meningitis, spontaneous abortion and intrauterine stillbirth, etc., which affect fertility.

Regarding the complications caused by ureaplasma, this article will introduce them in detail here. Although we may not be familiar with Ureaplasma, the diseases it causes are still familiar to us, and even more harmful, so it is necessary to treat this disease in time.