What are the symptoms of male genital herpes? What complications can genital herpes cause

1. Genital herpes is extremely harmful. According to the report of foreign scientific research institutions, genital herpes may be an important factor leading to infertility and male infertility after abortion. About 80% of women have one-time contact with men with penile herpes, and genital herpes in pregnant women can also cause neonatal infection of uterine hsv and infection has a serious impact on the fetus.

2. Genital herpes is highly infectious, serious and has a high recurrence rate. In recent years, the number of patients with genital herpes has been increasing, especially among sexually active people, about 30% suffer from genital herpes. The latest statistics show that the incidence rate of the disease is only second to gonorrhea and syphilis.

3. Genital herpes can also cause a series of complications, such as transmissible herpes, herpetic meningitis, prostatitis, proctitis, pelvic inflammatory disease and spinal nerve root disease. Some genital herpes virus hsv - turns to trigeminal ganglion along the nerve axis through the peripheral nerve, and hsv - 2. sacral ganglion lurks in nerve cells for a long time. If the body is infected and relapsed due to trauma, high fever, allergy, menstruation and other reasons, symptoms such as lumbar neuritis, myelitis, radiation pain in buttocks and lower limbs, bladder paralysis and other symptoms will occur.

4. It is easy to be mixed with other diseases. In clinical treatment, genital herpes is often mixed with gonorrhea, non-gonococcal urethritis, syphilis, condyloma acuminatum, vaginal candidiasis, trichomoniasis and other sexually transmitted diseases.

5. Eating difficulties and asphyxia: if it occurs in the mouth or throat injury, the patient may have eating difficulties, swallowing difficulties, hoarseness, or even block the trachea due to genital herpes injury, resulting in asphyxia death, especially in the case of infant genital herpes.

6. Poor urination: If genital herpes occurs in the urethra, patients may have urethral discomfort, urine overflow, naked eye hematuria, and urethral mouth secretion, and may feel urethral obstruction, poor urination, or urination difficulty. If the urethral lesion seriously involves the bladder, bilateral ureteral obstruction may occur, resulting in hydronephrosis, renal infection, and renal insufficiency. These are also early symptoms of genital herpes.