Testicle Infection (Epididymitis) (cont.)
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Outlook
If treated appropriately with antibiotics, your infection should clear up.
- Pain improves within 1-3 days.
- Swelling may take several weeks to go away.
- Complications are possible.
- Sterility: If the epididymitis involves both sides and is untreated, sterility may result (rarely, sterility can still occur even with antibiotic treatment).
- Scrotal abscess (an infection)
- Co-infection of the testicle (epididymo-orchitis)
- Sepsis (spread of infection into the bloodstream)
- Fournier gangrene (a severe and life-threatening infection of the scrotal area that kills the cells)
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Institute conservative treatment for patients with minor trauma in which the testes are unequivocally spared and the scrotum has not been violated.
