My son is 14 and having painful urination

Question

I took my son to the Dr. a couple weeks ago, as I thought he maybe had a Urinary Tract Infection. They did a test, and it was negative. His symptoms are frequent and painful urination, strong sense of urgency to go, but when he goes, he can't go but a little bit, and it is very painful. He also had traces of blood in the urine when this happened a couple weeks ago. The Dr. said it may just have been an inflamed urethra, and did not give us any meds for it. I had him drink lots of water and cranberry juice, and it went away by the next day.

My son called me this morning and told me it is back, and my son is on vacation with his friend's family in Florida. I wasn't sure what to do, and I told him to drink lots and lots of water, take some Tylenol, and if it gets worse call me - as they may have to take him to a Dr. down there.

Has anyone had this happen to them, or any clue what it may be?

Answer 1

It could be kidney stones

Answer 2

Maybe its kidney stones?

Answer 3

you need to take youre son to another doctor ...

tell him to keep drinking water but be sure it is purified water ..

if he can tell him to drink cranberry juice as .. well

also he needs something a bit stronger than tylenol just not too much of it .

try Ketoprofen or Aleve

also i know this is embarassing and you dont have to ask him if he does just tell him that if he masturbates to stop it until he gets better because this might aggravate the problem.

Answer 4

He needs to see a urologist quickly.  Delaying treatment could make him very sick if he is retaining urine; it will also cause him embarrassment at such an age.  It is difficult but not impossible for males to have urinary tract infections.  Could be irritation of the urethra, cystitis, kidney stones, neurogenic bladder- the urologist must examine him.

Answer 5

I had that happen to me once.  I went to the Doctor and they gave me this liquid medicine that you take like 4 times a day.  After a little while of taking it, I was better and it didn't hurt anymore... Try that and tell him to go to a doctor there if it's bad.

Good Luck.

Answer 6

He should be fine until he gets home if he does what you told him.  When he gets home, take him to a different doctor, preferably a urologist.

Answer 7

I had pretty much the same thing,they had checked with an ultrasound turned out to be kidney stones, mine cleared up after drinking a lot of applejuice, I read somewhere that applejuice can dissolve some kidney stones and they must have dissolved completely because there was never any pain

Answer 8

well its deffinitely not good, as blood in urine means internal bleeding.

if the urination itself is painful, id have bloodwork done for your common STDs

Answer 9

I had the same experience (although I'm a woman) at about 16 I started getting frequent bouts of very very painful cystitis but tests showed that there was no bacterial infection. I did some research on the net and found a website about IC, it's when you have the chronic symtoms of cystitis (UTI) but no baceterial reason for it.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&rlz...

The only thing I found that worked was drinking good amounts of water each day and taking a stomach seltzer like alka seltzer. This was the main thing that helped,taking about 4 soluble tablets each day. Stomach seltzers have the same ingerdients as the very expensive cystitis relief capsules and because they are alkaline they reduce the acid in teh urine making it less painful.

Also if after urination the tip of the uretha still stings, dab on a solution of salt water, I found this helped also.

Cranberry juice in teh stores doesn't contain much natural cranberry, so I would recommend cranberry tincture from the health food shops.

Good luck, I hope that it improves soon because I know how bad it can be to have this so often.

This only lasted for a few years for me, so I haven't suffered from it for years except maybe once every few years.