What is epididymitis
Epididymitis is inflammation of your epididymis. The epididymis is a coiled tube inside your scrotum. It stores and carries sperm from your testicles to your penis. Acute epididymitis lasts for 6 weeks or less. Chronic epididymitis lasts longer at least 3 months.

What causes epididymitis?
The cause of epididymitis may be unknown. It may be caused by any of the following:
￭A urinary tract infection (UTI) that spreads to the epididymis
￭Urine that flows backward from your urethra to the epididymis
￭Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) such as gonorrhea or Chlamydia

What are the signs and symptoms of epididymitis?
￭Pain or tenderness in your scrotum, abdomen, or groin
￭Redness or swelling of your scrotum
￭Pain or burning during urination, or frequent urination
Discharge from your penis or blood in your urine or semen

The Harm of Chronic Epididymitis
In daily life, chronic epididymitis is one of the common genitourinary infection diseases in men. Many people do not pay attention to chronic epididymitis, think it should be harmless, in fact, this idea is wrong. Then what are the damages to men with chronic epididymitis?
￭Intercept sperm walking passage: if chronic epididymitis is caused by pathogen infection, it will not only produce inflammatory reaction and damage sperm, but also easily cause the contraction or blockage of epididymal lumen.
￭Chronic epididymitis may damage sperm directly: after the infection of epididymis by pathogens, some pathogens can directly damage the sperm in the epididymis tube, inhibit the sperm motility or even cause infertility.
￭Chronic epididymitis may also cause other diseases: it can easily induce a variety of serious diseases, such as prostatitis or other urinary infections.
￭Chronic epididymitis affects the quality of sexual life.

Treatments of chronic epididymitis
￭ Drug therapy: chronic epididymitis mainly chooses broad-spectrum antibiotics, but some people may not be cured effective, so we need to take some secretions to see which broad-spectrum antibiotics are sensitive, and then arrange oral or infusion
￭ Physical therapy: patients take local hot compress physiotherapy, massage and other physical therapy, but also to a certain extent to alleviate the symptoms of the disease
￭ Traditional Chinese Medicine: You can usually choose some traditional Chinese medicine with the effects of clearing heat, promoting dampness and dispersing knot. Such as the Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory pill.