Orchitis is a common genital infection in men. Suffering from orchitis does great harm to men, especially to sperm, which can lead to infertility.
Orchitis mainly brings four hazards to men:
1. Impact on fertility: male orchitis will block the vas deferens, resulting in dead sperm, azoospermia, and loss of fertility. And infecting the inflammatory bacteria to the spouse will bring great harm to the wife.
2. Decline of
sexual dysfunction: orchitis will cause testicular swelling and swelling, especially in sexual life, which will lead to the decline of male sexual function and even loss of sexual function, which will bring difficulties to sexual life.
3. Premature aging due to sperm damage and and kidney loss: if men can not treat orchitis for a long time, it is easy to cause loss of sperm and kidney, loss of vitality, the severe cold of limbs, sour back pain, and early aging.
4. Reproductive diseases: orchitis is mainly caused by bacterial infection, which is easy to induce various severe conditions, such as varicocele, phlebitis,
prostatitis, endocrine disorders, nephritis, and other kidney diseases, urinary infection diseases, malignant tumors, etc., which seriously threaten men's lives.
The testis is the organ for men to produce sperm. The testis is very important for reproduction. Among these hazards, most men will pay attention to the impact on fertility, especially for some unmarried men.
So, how does orchitis lead to male infertility?
1. Cause seminal duct obstruction
If some bacteria cause spermatic tract obstruction, such as gonococcus and Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the pathogen of epididymitis makes sperm production endangered by inflammation. It easily reduces or blocks the lumen of the epididymis, resulting in the obstruction of azoospermia.
2. Formation of anti-sperm antibodies
Orchitis is also a significant cause of sperm antibodies. When testicular inflammation occurs, immune cells and humoral immune substances enter the inflamed epididymal canal to produce an immune response to pathogens and form antibodies, which will affect the forward movement of sperm.
3. Reduce sperm motility
When epididymis is infected, some pathogens can directly damage sperm in the epididymal canal, inhibit sperm activity, or agglutinate sperm to reduce its activity; Some pathogens adsorb on the sperm surface, reducing or even losing their motility.
4. It significantly increases sperm mortality
When bodyguards such as leukocytes and macrophages destroy pathogens, they may also accidentally injure or kill sperm, regardless of good or bad. A large number of metabolites produced by inflammatory reaction will also poison sperm, change the living environment of sperm, reduce sperm motility, increase dead sperm, increase the rate of abnormal sperm and reduce the number of sperm, which can lead to male infertility.
5. Testicular atrophy causes infertility
Patients with orchitis will have systemic symptoms such as high fever and cold, testicular pain, and pain at the root of the thigh. The affected testicles are swollen and soft and may also have wave motion due to suppuration. Patients with viral orchitis have symptoms of swelling and pain in their parotid glands, leading to testicular atrophy and affecting fertility.
Therefore, timely examination and standardized treatment should be carried out to avoid more severe consequences in case of testicular problems. What medicine is used to treat orchitis needs to be determined according to the cause of infection. The common causes of condition are bacterial infection and virus infection. It is recommended to stay and culture and select sensitive antibiotics for treatment according to the cultured bacteria.
Bacterial infection is mainly caused by urinary tract infection, urethral obstruction, and then reflux, causing epididymitis and orchitis. Broad-spectrum antibiotics are recommended, and cephalosporins can be selected. If the effect of antibiotics is not ideal, men can choose natural medicine
Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory Pill for treatment, mainly when the symptoms occur repeatedly.
If it is secondary orchitis after mumps, antiviral treatment is required, and select antiviral agents.
In addition to active treatment, prevention is also essential. How to prevent orchitis?
First, improve anti-inflammatory ability: men should eat more fresh vegetables and fruits and increase vitamin C intake to enhance the body's anti-inflammatory ability.
Second, eat less irritating food: men should eat fewer pig feet, fish soup, mutton, and other so-called "irritating food" so as not to increase the secretion of inflamed parts, further infiltrate and spread orchitis, and aggravate symptoms.
Third, avoid unclean sex life: many sexually transmitted diseases of men, such as syphilis and gonorrhea, are related to unprotected sex life. Unprotected sex life is easy to infect themselves and infect diseases and pests to wives and even children, which is very harmful.