What Are The Symptoms?

• In urethral stricture, obstructive voiding symptoms are very common, they include the following:
  • Decreased force of urinary stream
  • Incomplete emptying of bladder
  • Urinary terminal dribbling
  • Urinary intermittency
  • Deflected urinary stream

• Apart from these obstructive voiding symptoms, following symptoms are also present in patient. They are as follows:
  • Increased frequency of micturition
  • Acute or chronic retention of urine
  • Blood in the semen
  • Bloody or dark urine
  • Discharge from urethra
  • Painful urination (dysuria)
  • Pain in the lower abdomen
  • Pelvic pain
  • Swelling of penis, etc.

Why It Occurs?

• Urethral strictures are generally caused by the following factors:
  
  • Injury to the tract
  • Injury to pelvic area
  • Viral or bacterial infection of the tract, often caused by certain STDs
  • Frequent urethritis
  • Instrumentation of the urethra, particularly before the advent of flexible uro-endoscopy, remains an important causative event.
  • Benign prostatic hyperplasia(bph)
  • Congenital urethral stricture is the rare incidence.

What is Urethral Stricture?

• Urethral stricture means an abnormal narrowing of the tube that carries urine out of the body from the bladder (tube is called urethra).
• Urethral stricture disease has been cited as long ago as ancient Greek writings that report establishing bladder drainage with the passage of various catheters.
• Urethral stricture occurs secondary to inflammatory, ischemic or traumatic processes. These processes lead to scar tissue formation: scar tissue contracts and reduces the caliber of the urethral lumen, causing resistance to the antegrade flow of urine.
• During the early stages of the condition, the subject may experience pain during urination and the inability to fully empty the bladder. It is not uncommon for the bladder’s capacity to significantly increase due to this inability to completely void.
• Urethral stricture may cause problems with urination, including in certain cases complete inability to urinate, which is a medical emergency.

Is There any Treatment in Homeopathy?

• In case of primary stage where a small part of urethra is affected and there is no medical emergency, homeopathy can help the patient to recover from his miserable condition and also avoid surgery
• After surgery also, homeopathy can plays a vital role to prevent the recurrence of urethral stricture
• Homeopathy can also help the patient to prevent complications which take place after surgery
• In case of much damage of the tissues, surgery may be must for the patient, let your physician decide what is best for you