Overview
Blood in the semen is uncommon. Seeing it can make people quite anxious, but it is usually not serious.
What is going on in the body?
Most cases of blood in the semen are from unknown causes. It usually goes away on its own.
What are the signs and symptoms of the condition?
Seeing blood in the semen can be quite frightening. Men with this symptom are often asked several questions by the healthcare professional, including but not limited to:
• how many times blood has been seen in the semen
• when the bleeding started
• if there is blood in the urine or bleeding in other areas of the body
• if the man has any pain
• how often the man has had sex recently
• if the man has ever had a sexually transmitted disease
• what kind of sexual practices the man engages in
What are the causes and risks of the condition?
Most cases are from an unknown cause. Known causes include: infections of the prostate gland, called prostatitis. Prostatitis may be acute, chronic, or nonbacterial. infections of the seminal vesicles, which are two structures that secrete some of the fluid found in semen infections of the urethra, known as urethritis. The urethra is the tube that carries urine and semen to the outside of the body. urethral strictures, or narrowing in an area of the urethra. This may be caused by trauma or a previous infection. certain sexual habits, such as prolonged abstinence from or lack of sex or unusually frequent sex bleeding or blood clotting problems, such as hemophilia A or hemophilia B. Clotting problems can also occur in men who are taking too much of the blood-thinning drug warfarin. tumors or cancer, a rare cause. The cancer may be in the prostate, seminal vesicles, or urethra.
What can be done to prevent the condition?
Most cases cannot be prevented because the cause is unknown. Urethral stricture and infection of the urethra are often due to sexually transmitted infections. Practicing safer sex could reduce, but not eliminate, the risk of these cases.
How is the condition diagnosed?
In some cases, the diagnosis is obvious from the medical history and physical exam. In other cases, further testing may be done. Urine tests, including a urinalysis and urine culture, are commonly used to look for infection or bleeding. Imaging studies or X-ray tests may be used to look for a urethral stricture.
Bloody semen is mostly caused by s perm scrotum inflammation . Spermatophore,a pair of gland tissues,locates at the back urithra.They are connected with the back urethra through ejaculation tract.Since the membrane of the spermatophore gland is very thin, it will bleed once the gland is infected and blocked. The secretion of the spermatophore is the main components of semen, the bloody semen can be seen when the infected secretion is expelled.
Spermatophore inflammation and prostatitis often occur at same time. Similar to the pathology of spermatophore, chronic prostatitis also causes the bloody semen. The prostate congests when it is inflammated;frequent sexual intercourses make the capillary to crack; the prostate shrinks for ejaculation, all these can result in the blood in prostate fluid. Like the prostatitis, the BPH also causes bloody semen. Chinese medicine regards the bloody semen as the strangury category,which is different from the hematuria. Nephrotic causes hematuria , and prostate diseases cause bloody semen. Bloody semen makes the patients pain,but the hematuria doesn't.
The reason of the spermatophore is consistent with the prostatits, so the treatment is to clear heat and disinhibit dampness, cooling the blood and hemostasis. The symptom of bloody semen can be cured within 20 days by taking the powder to clear the lower burner damp-heat and heat toxin expelled by the defecation, and the capsules to quicken the blood and transform stasis. An American patient lived in Chicago suffered from the bloody semen for more than 10 years, his symptom was lightened obviously after only 1 period of treatment, and cured completely only after 2 periods of treatment. |
