What could be wrong if your urethra itches and it is white all the way around and your pee is cloudy and there is white stuff that comes off your urethra?

Answer 1

White or pus discharge from the urethra usually indicates you have an infection that needs to be treated by a doctor, or go to a sexual health clinic, straight away. While it may be only a yeast infection, it can also be a symptom of a bacterial urinary infection, or a symptom of an STD infection.

UTI - Urinary Tract Infection

These symptoms cannot and should not be self-treated. First, many urinary tract infections can travel to the kidneys, creating a bigger and more dangerous infection. Second, an untreated UTI (urinary tract infection) can go "silent", meaning, the symptoms stop but the infection continues unchecked. This kind of silent infection can often enter the walls of the bladder, creating interstitial cystitis, an infection that can cause urinary incontinence, chronic urethral and pain at the urethral opening, etc. The condition is often only found during a cystoscopy, a procedure in which a tube with a camera-telescope is inserted up the urethra into the bladder. This is not a fun or pain free proedure, especially afterward.

STD - Sexually Transmitted Disease

If the discharge is from an STD, lack of treatment can lead to cervical dysplagia, infertility, and other conditions. Even though an STD may *seem* to affect the urinary tract, the urethra and vagina are so close that germs can enter either one.

Yeast

Yeast infections usually have the classic "cottage cheese" appearance, which is easy to notice if you insert a finger into the vagina and withdraw (remove) it. If it is your first infection, you should have a doctor confirm what type of infection you have. "Tric" has a greenish discharge but does not look like cottage cheese, as one example.

A previous answer below gives some self-help for yeast, but as she states, it is always wise to have a doctor check first, before beginning any home measures.

If it just itches but does not hurt, then you probably have a yeast infection. I just had my 1st yeast infection 2 weeks ago and I had done some extensive research on that and cured myself in about a week. I highly suggest going to the doctor first, but if you're pretty sure it's a yeast infection you can balance the PH in you vaginal area by either...

1. Eating about 2 cups of yogurt a day, any kind as long as it has "live cultures" and/or L. Acidophilus. You can also apply PLAIN NO SUGAR yogurt around the infected area, but this will require a bit of creativity.

2. Garlic. I smashed a clove of garlic once a day and downed it w/ water. At night, I would wrap a piece of gauze around a small clove, tie it w/ a string of floss and use it like a tampon overnight.

Garlic and yogurt both have the ingredients to help balance the PH in your vaginal area. It worked for me. I didn't apply the yogurt since I had trouble finding NO SUGAR yogurt at my local supermarket. Either way, I still highly suggest you talk to a doctor first.