Stinging Penis After Swimming Pool

[27Kathleen]

After swimming in a pool, my 10-year-old son experiences occasional stinging in the tip of his penis while urinating. This happens after he's been swimming in either a traditional above-ground pool using Vision-X chemicals and chlorine and an in-ground, salt-water pool. Right now, he just rinses his penis with tap water and drinks more water to try to flush his system. If it's the chemcials that are irritating his penis, why wouldn't it happen every time he swims? Any treatment you can recommend?

Many thanks,
Kathleen

[Rexer1202]

Thank you for bringing this up...Ive had this for a while now (I'm 13) but I never really brought it up. Im no doctor but I could say that taking showers right after swimming really helps with me since the chemicals in the pool irritate my skin. But that usually seems to help ( plus you get the chlorine smell out.

[Bhupinder Kaur, MD]

Hello,
I cannot confirm anything without examination but it sounds like irritant contact dermatitis.Avoid using any lotions and creams for the meantime. Wash  the skin with a mild cleanser with moisturizing properties like Cetaphil. Pat it dry. Then apply a good hypoallergenic moisturizer over the area and see if this improves.If the symptoms still persist then you can apply mild steroid like dermacort.

If the irritation persists then pls get it evaluated from a dermatologist.Urethritis has to be ruled out.

Hope it helps.Take care and pls do keep me posted on how you are doing or if you have any additional doubts.Kind regards.

[jagesh50]

May be to do with the Ph,salinity of the water.Cleanse with tapwater  be all that may be required

[precargo]

I am not a doctor and also not sure if it's related to pool chemicals, but I've found that in both chlorine and saltwater pools, I encounter this problem  when I wear swimsuits with mesh.
This happens when I do a lot of bobbing in the water (up and down movement,) whenever I swim for a bit, dry off, then get back in, (which dries out the skin and makes it more sensitive,) OR when I swim for a particularly long time.
The best solution, in my opinion, is to invest in meshless swimsuits!
Hope this helps!