Post Date April, 15 2023
What are the inspection items for foreskin balanitis? What examinations should be done for foreskin balanitis? Many male friends attach great importance to the topic of foreskin balanitis, but they are not very familiar with its inspection items. So, what are the inspection items for foreskin balanitis?
(1) Examination and test: Candidal balanitis (foreskin) can be found by microscopic examination or culture on the diseased glans and foreskin. Trichomonad balanitis can be found in secretions.
(2) Direct microscopic examination: scrape the scales on the skin lesions of the glans penis, coronal sulcus, or foreskin as specimens to be examined. Use 10% potassium hydroxide or physiological saline to make a section of the specimen to be examined. Under the microscope, groups of oval shaped spores and pseudohyphae can be seen. If more pseudohyphae are found, it indicates that Candida is in the pathogenic stage.
(3) Dyeing examination: Gram staining, Congo red staining, or PAS staining can also be used for microscopic examination after staining, with a higher positive rate than direct microscopic examination. Gram staining, spores and pseudohyphae stained blue: Congo red and PAS staining, spores and pseudohyphae stained red.
(4) Candida antibody test: Candida albicans antibody can be detected by double immunodiffusion method or latex coagulation method.
(5) Isolation and culture: Candida culture can be conducted for patients with negative smear tests. Under aseptic conditions, inoculate the tested specimen onto Sabouraud culture medium. During inoculation, cut the test tube culture medium obliquely and slightly, inoculate 2-3 times per tube, and inoculate 2 tubes per specimen. After incubating the culture medium in a 37 ℃ incubator for 24-48 hours, observation showed that a large number of milky white colonies were growing. Using an inoculation needle to pick up a small amount of colony smears, direct microscopic examination or microscopic examination after staining showed that a large number of spores were visible, indicating a preliminary diagnosis of Candida infection.
