Dysuria
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Kiran Singh, M.D. [2]
Synonyms and keywords: Micturition painful, pain passing urine, painful urination; painful micturition
Overview
Dysuria is define as pain or burning, stinging, or itching of the urethra or urethral meatus during or just after urination.
Classification
Dysuria can be divided broadly into two categories
- Infectious
- Infectious causes include
- Urinary tract infection or urethritis
- Kidney or prostate infections
- Vaginal infections
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- interstitial cystitis
- Non-infectious
- Non-infectious causes include
- Foreign body or stone in the urinary tract
- Trauma
- Benign prostatic hypertrophy
- Tumors
- Certain medications
- Anatomic abnormalities
- Menopause
Causes
Life Threatening Causes
Common Causes
- Balanitis
- Balanoposthitis
- Cervicitis
- Lower urinary tract infections
- Pelvic inflammatory disease
- Pyelonephritis
- Urethritis
- Vaginitis
Causes by Organ System
Causes in Alphabetical Order
- Abciximab
- Acute abacterial cystitis
- Acute cystitis
- Acute intermittent porphyria
- Acute pyelonephritis
- Acute urethritis
- Adenine phosphoribosyltransferase deficiency
- Appendicitis
- Arsenic trioxide
- Arsenicals
- Atrophic vaginitis
- Autoimmune orchitis
- Bacterial vaginosis
- Balanitis
- Balanitis xerotica obliterans
- Balanoposthitis
- Baneberry poisoning
- Behçet syndrome
- Benign prostatic hyperplasia
- Bilharziasis
- Bladder cancer
- Bladder diverticulum
- Bladder stone
- Candidal vaginitis
- Cervical cancer
- Cervicitis
- Chemical irritants
- Chlamydia
- Clofibrate
- Complication of pregnancy
- Congenital giant megaureter
- Contraceptive foam
- Contraceptive sponge
- Cystitis
- Cystocele
- Dehydration
- Diarrhea
- Dysfunctional elimination
- Ectopic pregnancy
- Endometriosis
- Eosinophilic cystitis
- Epididymitis
- Fallopian tube conditions
- Functional disorders
- Fungal infection
- Genital herpes
- Genital schistosomiasis
- Gonorrhea
- Goodpasture syndrome
- Granulomatous prostatitis
- Granulosa cell tumor of the ovary
- Hemorrhagic cystitis
- Hunner ulcer
- Hydatid cyst
- Hydroxyurea
- Hypercalciuria
- Idiopathic hyperuricosuria
- Indinavir
- Interstitial cystitis
- Irritant
- Irritative dermatitis
- Kidney infection
- Kidney stone
- Labial adhesion
- Lichen sclerosus
- Local trauma
- Lower urinary tract infection
- Malakoplakia
- Masturbation
- Meatal stenosis
- Melarsoprol
- Menopause
- Milnacipran
- Neisseria gonorrhoeae
- Non-gonococcal urethritis
- Nonspecific (chemical) urethritis
- Oxaprozin
- Paraurethral gland inflammation
- Pelvic inflammatory disease
- Pelvic lipomatosis
- Perineal trauma
- Periurethral herpes simplex
- Pinworms
- Poor perineal hygiene
- Postoperative septicaemia
- Prolapsed uterus
- Prostatic carcinoma
- Prostatic disease
- Prostatic tuberculosis
- Prostatitis
- Psychogenic disorder
- Pyelitis
- Pyelonephritis
- Pyrazinamide
- Radiation therapy
- Reactive arthritis
- Rectovesical fistula
- Reiter's Syndrome
- Renal nutcracker syndrome
- Renal tuberculosis
- Schistosoma haematobium
- Sexual abuse
- Sexually transmitted disease
- Spermicidal gel
- Stevens-Johnson syndrome
- Tiagabine
- Tiaprofenic acid
- Toxic epidermal necrolysis
- Trauma
- Trichomoniasis
- Urethral cancer
- Urethral caruncle
- Urethral catheterization
- Urethral stricture
- Urethral syndrome
- Urethral trauma
- Urethritis
- Urinary incontinence
- Urinary obstruction
- Urinary stone
- Urinary tract infection
- Urinary tract malformation
- Urinary tract neoplasm
- Urolithiasis
- Vaginal douche
- Vaginal lubricant
- Vaginal ulcers
- Vaginitis
- Valrubicin
- Vancomycin resistant enterococcal bacteremia
- Varicella
- Vesical calculus
- Vesicoureteral reflux
- Vesicovaginal fistula
- Vulvar cancer
- Vulvitis
- Xanthine oxydase deficiency
- Xanthinuria
- X-linked alpha thalassemia mental retardation syndrome
Differentiating Dysuria from other Diseases
Treatment
References
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