Causes, symptoms and treatment of dropsy
Mom girls this issue is unlikely to be interesting, but the women who produced the heroes, you need to be aware of. At least because surgeons in district clinics can frighten inexperienced mummies or even blame for lack of hygiene in a child or prolonged wearing of a diaper for newborns. But first things first.
A testicle testicle is the formation and accumulation of a specific excess fluid in the testicles. Thus the volume of a liquid in a scrotum of the man can make from five milliliters to the whole liter!
Causes of dropsy testes in men
Pediatric epididymis, edema of the epididymis, hydrocele - synonyms for the name of one disease, which occurs in newborns and boys in adolescence, and in men of older and adulthood. The dropsy is of two kinds:
- Congenital.
- Purchased.
The causes of congenital dropsy of the testicles should be looked for in the period of intrauterine development of the baby. By the end of the nine-month period of the testicles from the peritoneum of the future, men must descend into the scrotum through the inguinal canal.
This can happen for the first time after birth, then the lumen in the peritoneum overgrows and the scrotum of the child looks physiologically. But sometimes the lumen after the eggs does not overgrow, it starts to accumulate fluid draining from the abdominal cavity - in this case, doctors diagnosed as "dropsy of testicles in newborns."
By the way, now such a diagnosis, according to open sources of information, puts 5 to 15% of newborn boys. The second type of dropsy is more common in mobile boys and active men who engage in traumatic sports, tourism, etc.
Acquired hydrocele occurs with injuries to the scrotum and perineum, with lymphatic drainage from the scrotum and its inflammatory diseases.
With the diagnosis of dropsy, the cause of the testicle may be in the communication between the peritoneum and the scrotum, when the production of a specific fluid is normal, and the absorption is impaired. Occasionally, dropsy may appear when the testes are twisted, but when they take a normal state, it disappears as if nothing had happened.
Symptoms of dropsy
Both types of the disease, as a rule, are not accompanied by sharp pains due to the fact that the liquid accumulates slowly. But the scrotum thus looks more - either from one or both sides, and the testicle, surrounded by additional fluid, is not probed.
If you notice that the child has something "superfluous" in the scrotum, and when a palpation is found, a small pear-shaped compaction is grounded downwards( or if the liquid has partially flowed into the inguinal canal) resembling an hourglass in shape, do not panic.
By the way, the size of dropsy testicles can have a wide variety - from a small apple to a soccer ball. In the latter case, of course, the male boy will have difficulty urinating, but even then the pain syndrome will not be pronounced. Wait in the morning and - to see a surgeon.
Treatment of the disease
The answer to the question of how to treat a dropsy testicle with the first variant of the disease, is simple to the impossible - to wait. According to different surgeons, the dropsy of the testicles in boys can disappear before reaching a year or a year and a half. Until that time, it's only necessary to watch their scrotum.
In the second case, men need to contact a surgeon or an andrologist who must either have an ultrasound scan or a diaphanoscopy to confirm the diagnosis. When the ultrasound examination in the scrotum, the testicle and the liquid are visible around, with translucence, the formation is uniform.
After confirmation of the diagnosis of dropsy, the doctor must decide on the intervention. As a rule, the operation of dropsy of the testicle is carried out on an outpatient basis, under local or intravenous anesthesia, for half an hour. With a radical cure, the testicle is dissected and either stitched or partially excised.
After this, the formation of excess fluid does not occur. In passing, the attending physician may prescribe medication for the elimination of the inflammatory process.
Only occasionally in clinics operation to remove dropsy is replaced by puncture, but this manipulation is very painful and is used only in extreme cases when there is a risk of developing male infertility.
The diagnosis of edema of the testicle has no effect and after the operation, healing occurs very quickly. Treatment of dropsy with folk remedies is described in modern literature, but little has been said about cases of complete recovery.
So, folk healers recommend applying compress from a decoction of 50 g of peas in 0.5 liters of water( boil for 15 minutes and let stand, cooled to put on cotton cloth) or take infusion of herbs( in equal proportions mother-and-stepmother and flowers of a sweet clover), and also to smear with a mix of ointment of calendula and a children's cream in equal proportions( after this procedure it is recommended to put on dense panties and to walk not less than days).
What method of treatment to choose - conservative or popular - is for men, and in the case of children - for their parents, but it is important to remember that joking with male health is impossible.