Burning Sensation When Urinating

It’s a normal action that you should urinate every day. However, this regular action may be very painful for you if you are suffering from a urinary system disease. Burning urination or painful urination, which is also known as dysuria, can severely reduce your life quality since it affects you whenever you urinate. Burning sensation when urinating is more common in women than in men.

 

You may also have other symptoms if you have burning sensation when urinating:        

Urinary frequency and urgency 

Frequent urination at night

Weak urine flow 

Blood in urine

 

What could it be if I have burning sensation when urinating?

 

The most common causes are as follows: 

 

• Urinary tract infection (UTI): symptoms include burning sensation when urinating, frequent and urgent urination, small amount of urine, blood in urine. 

 

• Cystitis (bladder infection): symptoms are similar to UTI. 

 

• Prostatitis (prostate infection, in men): symptoms include burning sensation when urinating, urinary frequency and urgency, weak urine flow, difficulty urinating, pain in lower back, lower abdomen, pelvis and groin, pain in testicle, penis and perineum, painful ejaculation.

 

• Urethritis (inflammation of the tube, the urethra, that drains the bladder to the outside of the body): symptoms include burning sensation when urinating, feeling the frequent or urgent need to urinate, difficulty starting urination, pain during sexual intercourse,discharge from the urethral opening or vagina, blood in the semen or urine(in men). 

 

• Sexually transmitted diseases like Chlamydia and gonorrhea. The symptoms of Chlamydia and gonorrhea in women are different from that in men. 

 

  Chlamydia symptoms in women:

  Burning pain when urinating;

  Bleeding between periods;

  Abnormal vaginal discharge that may have an odor;

  Pain during periods;

  Painful sexual intercourse;

  Abdominal pain with fever;

  Itching or burning in or around the vagina.

 

  Chlamydia symptoms in men:

  Burning pain when urinating;

  Pain and swelling around the testicles;

  Discharge from the tip of the penis;

  Itching and burning around the opening of the penis.

 

  Gonorrhea symptoms in women:

  Abnormal vaginal discharge;

  Frequent urination;

  Pain and burning when urinating;

  Pain in lower abdomen;

  Painful sexual intercourse;

  Heavier periods or spotting.

 

   

  Gonorrhea symptoms in men:

  A persist urge to urinate frequently;

  Pain or burning sensation when urinating;

  White or cloudy discharge from the penis; 

  Swelling or redness at the opening of the penis;

  Pain in the testicles. 

 

How do I know what disease I have? 

 

Different diseases will be tested differently. Your doctor will ask your symptoms and then take some test to confirm your condition. All of the diseases listed above should be diagnosed with a urine test to look for white blood cells or bacteria. If so, a urine bacterial culture is needed. For diagnosing urinary system diseases like UTI, cystitis and urethritis, your doctor will use a matching medical equipment to check the affected areas like urinary tract, bladder, or urethra. If suspected as prostatitis, you will also have a blood test and digital rectal examination. If your doctor think it’s an STD like chlamydia or gonorrhea, you will also have a swab of affected area. For women, your doctor takes a swab of the discharge from your cervix for culture or antigen testing for chlamydia or gonorrhea. For men, your doctor inserts a slim swab into the end of your penis to get a sample from the urethra. In some cases, your doctor may swab the anus.

 

What should I do if I have been diagnosed with Chlamydia or gonorrhea? 

You should take a treatment as soon as possible after receiving a diagnosis of Chlamydia or gonorrhea. You should notify all of your sexual partner to get tested for STD and have a treatment as well. It will reduce your risk of becoming re-infected, help avoid spreading the STD to other people, and decrease the risk that your previous sexual partner will develop serious complications from the STD. You and all of your sex partners should avoid sex until all symptoms disappeared and the infection is cleared up. 

 

How do I prevent an STD? 

 

• Use condoms every time you have sex

• Limit the number of sexual partners.

• Wash before and after sexual intercourse 

• Avoid sharing towel and underclothing

• Get tested along with the partner before having sex for the first time

• Get tested for STD regularly

 

What treatment should I take if I have burning sensation when urinating?

 

Since burning sensation when urinating can be caused by various factors, your treatment depends on what disease you have. For treating infection in urinary and reproductive system, antibiotic treatment is the most commonly-used method. It can kill the pathogenic bacteria effectively. 

 

Usually, the symptoms will disappear after a few days or weeks. However, you need to continue the entire course of antibiotics even if you feel better to make sure the infection is cleared up completely. The treating course depends on your particular symptoms and medical history. Some patients may need a long-term treatment if the inflammation develops chronic.    

 

Except for antibiotics, your doctor may also prescribe pain-relievers to alleviate the pain and burning sensation when urinating. 

 

If you are in a treatment for an STD, you should get tested again after all of your symptoms disappear to ensure a full recovery. If there is still infection, you need to continue your treatment until the infection cured completely. 

 

Herbal medicine for burning sensation when urinating 

 

If you have no improvement by taking conventional western medicine, you can take herbal medicine into consideration.

 

Herbal medicine has been used for more than 3000 years in China. It scientifically explains the inflammation or infection in urinary and reproductive system of human. In the theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), the disease in urogenital system is caused by the blocked blood and Qi, and the damp heat in lower body. Therefore, it’s necessary to clear up the heat and damp, and unblock the blood and Qi so as to remove the inflammation. Thus, the burning urination can be eased. 

 

Herbal medicine practitioners uses more than 50 types of natural herbs and make them into pill. These herbs have properties of clearing heat and toxins, inducing diuresis to relieve the stranguria, and improving the blood and Qi flow. Hence other symptoms that caused by the inflammation can also be cured. 

     

Herbal medicine is natural and safe in the long-term treatment. This new treatment option has cured many sufferers with urogenital system diseases.