Many women faced the problem of cystitis. Sometimes it can be caused by hypothermia, and sometimes by sexual intimacy. There is even such a concept of "cystitis of the honeymoon", or in other words, postcoital cystitis.
Symptoms of cystitis that occurs after intimacy
Signs of this kind of inflammation of the bladder are frequent urge to empty the bladder, pain and burning during the process of urination. In the urine may be present drops of blood.
The disease worsens a few hours after sexual intercourse or the next day. If a woman has ever faced a cystitis due to sexual intimacy, he will regularly bother her if he is not treated.
How to treat postcoital cystitis?
If after the sex symptoms of cystitis occur, the first assistant of a woman can become an ordinary warmer, which must be applied to the perineum.
For further treatment of so-called cystitis after sex, you should contact a specialist-urologist who will assign the necessary studies: analysis and culture of urine, swab, ultrasound of the bladder and kidneys, examination of the gynecologist.
As a rule, for the treatment of cystitis , which occurs after sexual intercourse, antibiotic therapy is applied, during which the sex life should be suspended. After the end of treatment, you can return to sex again, but you need to do it carefully, with the hygiene rules.
If the cause of postcoital cystitis is the wrong location of the urethra, then surgical treatment can be used, an alternative to which can be the reception after each sexual act of low doses of antibiotic.
Prophylaxis of postcoital cystitis
Preventive measures include:
- treatment of sexual infections;
- observance of rules of intimate hygiene;
- avoidance of mucosal irritation (eg, spermicide lubrication);
- restriction of sexual positions, which can cause irritation of the urethra;
- emptying the bladder before and after sex;
- strengthening of local immunity of the mucosa of the bladder.