Male menstruation


Male menstruation is a term used colloquially to describe a type of bleeding in the urine or faeces, reported in a handful of tropical countries and more recently in mass in countries where medical assistance is readily available. It is actually caused by numerous different factors. In first world countries it is often related to surgical infections, but is, in impoverished countries and massive tropical areas most indefinitely related directly to a parasite infestation of the urinary tract or intestines by Schistosoma haematobium - also known as snail fever. A disease caused by the parasitic flatworms called schistosomes. Most commonly effected are farming communities that live and work in humid marshes and waterlogged places such as the rice fields throughout Asia, where most young boys unknowingly contract Schistosoma, where then the parasite begins to cause damage internally throughout their stomach and intestines. The labour combined with parasites eating away at organ walls causes haemorrhage bleeding from multiple orifices. Locals, uneducated at best, thought that it was strange but not of major concern before modern medical knowledge and so referred to it as the male equivalent of female menstruation.
In far more, less reported cases, it is found that boys in an effected area who work in a factory environment, instead of the teeming parasite habitat that is knee high paddy fields, are very rarely diagnosed with Schistosoma, which helps outline where exactly the problem emerges from and whether or not if it is effecting drinking water sources.