To prevent urethritis (urethritis), attention must be paid to reducing individual risk factors.
Behavioral risk factors
- Diet
- Micronutrient deficiency (vital substances) – see Prevention with micronutrients.
- Sexual transmission
- Promiscuity (sexual contact with relatively frequently changing different partners or with parallel multiple partners).
- Prostitution
- Men who have sex with men (MSM).
- Sexual contacts in the vacation country
- Unprotected coitus (sexual intercourse)
- The insertion of foreign bodies into the urethra.
- Hygiene deficiencies – in the process, more often in women, germs can be carried from the intestine to the urethra