Many women sometimes feel a slight burning sensation when urinating. This feeling is not pleasant, and causes psychological discomfort. If this condition lasts more than a day or is accompanied by other symptoms, then you should definitely consult a doctor. After all, it can be caused by infectious or inflammatory diseases, although this is not necessary. Burning and pain when urinating can be caused by other causes. And in this case they pass without medical intervention.
The main causes of burning when urinating in women
- Most often this condition is caused by infectious diseases of the genitourinary system. These can be venereal infections: gonorrhea, chlamydosis or trichomoniasis. In this case burning in the vagina with urination is the main symptom. But a woman is also concerned about purulent or foamy discharge. Such symptoms are also with ureaplasmosis and mycoplasmosis.
- Very often severe burning with urination occurs with inflammation of the kidney and bladder. It can be urethritis, cystitis or pyelonephritis. Usually a woman is also concerned about severe pain and frequent urge to urinate.
- Many women suffer from burning sensation due to non-compliance with personal hygiene rules or from the use of inappropriate hygiene products. Some types of shampoos, soaps and even toilet paper can cause irritation. Inadequate or vice versa, too frequent a toilet of sexual organs in a woman the microflora of the vagina is disturbed. Symptom of dysbiosis and vaginitis is just the burning of the labia when urinating.
- One of the reasons for this condition can be trauma to the urethra. They can be caused by the passage of small stones and sand along it. Sometimes there is a burning sensation when urinating after sex. This happens due to gross sexual contact and mucosal damage.
- A little less often the itching and burning sensation when urinating appears after eating some food. Because of this, the urine composition is disrupted, and it irritates the ureters.
How to treat burning with urination?
If you are not disturbed by additional symptoms in the form of pains, purulent discharge, admixtures of blood in the urine and no temperature, you can help yourself:
- drink a spasmalgon tablet or No-shpa;
- to wash the ureters, you need to drink more liquid, better if it is compote, alkaline mineral water without gas, unsweetened tea;
- drink decoctions of herb bearberry, cowberry, dog rose or cherry twig;
- It is useful to drink a solution of soda every 6 hours: a teaspoon per 100 grams of water;
- to soften the pain in the process of urination, you can do this, standing under a shower or sitting in a bath with water.
If the symptoms do not go through the next day, you need to see a doctor and take the urine for analysis. The doctor will find out why burning with burning occurs, and only then will he prescribe the right drugs. Infectious and inflammatory diseases that cause it, are treated only with antibacterial drugs.
In a complex of therapeutic and prophylactic measures for cystitis, natural remedies based on plant components such as leaves extract of bearberry, horsetail and cranberry fruit are often used. For example, Uroprofit, the components of which have antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory and antispasmodic effects. The complex of biologically active substances that make up it contributes to the normalization of urination, improves the functional state of the kidneys and urinary tract, and also reduces the risk of repeated exacerbations of chronic cystitis.
That this problem does not bother you, you need to take preventive measures:
- Eliminate from the diet of smoked products, spicy seasonings, coffee, sugar, alcohol. Irritation in the urethra can also be caused by cranberry juice or chocolate.
- Observe the hygiene of the genitals and necessarily urinate at the first urge to not cause stagnation of urine.
- Use only neutral products for showering, ordinary toilet paper without flavors.
- And also on time visit the doctor and do not allow hypothermia, so as not to cause inflammation of the bladder.