Does a urinary tract infection produce a purulent discharge?

Patients with urinary tract infections will have purulent discharge, mainly seen in patients with anterior urethral infections. The patient may have frequent urination, urgency with painful urination, and pus discharge from the urethra, accompanied by redness and swelling of the urethra, or stinging and itching of the urethra. The majority of infections are gonococcal, mycoplasma, chlamydial, or syphilis infections, all of which can cause a purulent discharge. Non-specific urethritis, such as Escherichia coli infection, can also cause increased purulent urethral discharge with severe urinary tract irritation. It is necessary to take pus discharge for bacterial culture, and urine culture, to identify the source of infection, targeted selection of antimicrobial treatment, the infection will soon be controlled. The infection can be controlled quickly. During the treatment, you need to drink more water and urinate more often. At the same time, you need to maintain local cleanliness and hygiene, avoid unclean sexual contact, so as not to cause the infection to the sexual partner of the phenomenon of transmission.