IntroductionThe whitening of the glans may be caused by physiological and pathological reasons, such as low temperature of the glans skin, prolonged prepuce, and phimosis. It can be treated by local warmth, local cleaning, surgical treatment, medication and so on.
1. Physiological factors:
It can be caused by cold and other reasons that the local skin temperature of the glans is too low, so that the glans is white, which can be relieved by appropriate heat preservation and other ways.
2.Pathological causes:
(1) circumcision: can be due to the circumcision of the circumcision leads to the increase of foreskin scale, causing the phenomenon of glans whitening, if not accompanied by uncomfortable symptoms, the use of water can be washed, and keep the local clean. Meet the surgical indications of patients can also be surgical treatment, such as circumcision.
(2) circumcision: patients with fungal infection of circumcision, due to the stimulation of the inflammation of the glans, resulting in white flakes, cheese-like, white filamentous secretion, which causes the phenomenon of white glans. Such patients can be diagnosed by fungal smear examination and drug treatment, such as local application of gentamycin ointment.
There are many other reasons that can lead to the phenomenon of glans whitening, it is recommended that such patients go to the regular hospital, clear reasons, and actively deal with.