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What causes brownish sperm?
Dark brown or black semen may be a sign of heavier bleeding or blood that has been in the body for longer periods of time. This may occur due to a heavy injury, such as a spinal cord injury or trauma in the genitals. Sometimes, spinal cord injuries may occur without heavy bleeding and may still turn semen dark.
Is brown sperm serious?
It’s unusual to find blood in your semen when you ejaculate, but try not to worry. It’s usually only temporary and the cause is rarely anything serious. The semen may be blood stained, brownish-red in colour or have a pink tinge.
How do you treat brown sperm?
How is blood in semen treated?
- Antibiotics if you have an infection.
- Anti-inflammatory drugs.
- Finasteride (Proscar), a medication used to shrink an enlarged prostate can often stop hematospermia if due to fragile/friable blood vessels on the prostate.
- Medicines to treat other medical conditions.
What does discolored sperm mean?
This could be caused by inflammation of the prostate or the glands that help produce semen. While red semen can be alarming, the cause is usually harmless (benign), especially in younger men. Yellow or green semen. This could be caused by an infection, jaundice, or the presence of vitamins or medication in the semen.
What kind of infection causes blood in sperm?
Infections. Just as with inflammation, infections in any gland, duct, tube, or organ involved in the male genitals can cause blood in the semen. STIs (commonly referred to as sexually transmitted diseases, or STDs), such as chlamydia, gonorrhea, or herpes, can also cause blood in semen.
Why is my sperm brown and watery?
Pink or reddish brown could mean your prostate is inflamed or bleeding, or there could be bleeding or inflammation in the seminal vesicle(s). The seminal vesicles are a pair of glands that help produce a significant liquid part of semen. These are usually treatable conditions.
What antibiotics treat hematospermia?
Suspected infection can be treated with 2-week course of antibiotics that penetrates the prostate-blood barrier (fluoroquinolones, doxycycline, trimethoprim, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole). Iatrogenic hematospermia usually resolves in a few weeks or after 10 ejaculations.