Healthy semen is a cloudy white color with a jelly consistency similar to a raw egg. Slight changes in semen color, texture, and ...

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Lumpy, Thick, or Watery? Brown, yellow or green? What healthy semen looks like?

I'm Dr Rena Malik urologist and pelvic surgeon and let's get right to it what should normal semen look like is it too thick is it too thin is it the right color I get questions about this all the time and today I'm going to answer all of them so what does normal semen look like normal semen is usually a whitish to a grayish color it is usually got kind of a chlorine like smell to it and it tastes slightly sweet because it has some fructose in it but also other factors can make it taste a little bit more metallic or other things like that and the texture itself can change over time so even from one ejaculation to the next it may look a bit different what happens is right after ejaculation proteins in the semen itself cause it to be thick and clumpy so it can stick to the walls of the vagina and actually get into the cervix for the purpose of impregnation however after about 15 to 30 minutes that starts to thin out and become more watery but generally speaking The Taste and texture of your semen can change drastically depending on a whole host of things like the diet you're taking the medications you're taking if you're taking vitamins or not the amount of alcohol you consume or tobacco or any other drugs how much fluid you're drinking so the more fluids you're drinking the more watery or thinner consistency or ejaculate might be and ultimately usually it's all normal and okay I've also talked previously in a video about how to increase the volume of semen that you're producing but the normal amount of semen is anywhere from one and a half to five ml which is about a teaspoon so it's not a huge amount unless you're experiencing other symptoms like pain with urination or ejaculation pain in the testicles or having blood in the urine or if you're struggling with infertility I wouldn't worry about the texture of your semen first reason that someone might notice that their semen is a bit thicker is that they may be not ejaculating frequently enough so over time that can cause the sperm volume to actually increase is making it more thicker in consistency similarly dehydration can do the same thing so if you're not drinking enough fluids you may notice that your semen is a little bit thicker as well as having certain infections because having infections of the genitals like sexually transmitted infections can cause white cells to go into the area and into the semen itself causing it to be a bit thicker we talked about why it gets thick what about why it gets thin if you're ejaculating frequently you may not have had enough time to kind of restore the good quality sperm into the semen itself and so it may take some more time before you see that again thickish whitish semen volume that you normally got also it may be that you're actually seeing pre-ejaculate or pre-cum I'm gonna make a video about pre-ejaculate or pre-cum that is usually a very thin watery substance that you release prior to orgasm or ejaculation and that is always typically clear and watery nothing to worry about all right let's talk about semen color because this is something that people ask about all the time so like I said normal semen color is whitish to grayish however what happens if it's a little bit reddish or pinkish you may be concerned about blood in the semen so I've made a whole video about blood in the season before make sure you check that out but reassuringly very commonly if it's only happening if it only happened one time it's usually due to inflammation and it will go away on its own or it could be due to an infection so if you've had unprotected sex with a partner who you're not sure of their STD status then it may be valuable to go get tested also if you have trauma to the area either to the blood or the testes or the scrotum you may see blood in the semen from that what about yellow so what if your semen looks a bit yellow well there's a couple reasons for this so number one if you are having any sort of blockage to urine passage so if you have an enlarged prostate if you have a urethral stricture and I may made videos on these before the original stricture video is one where I reacted to Johnny Knoxville so you can watch those to learn more about those conditions but they can make it more difficult to empty your bladder and some urine can get left behind in the urethra and that can then tinge the semen to look a little bit yellow also infections can cause it to look a bit yellow or if you're experiencing something called jaundice jaundice is usually associated with liver problems you may also notice that your eyes your skin are getting yellow or you're having pain in your abdomen so it wouldn't be an isolated just yellow ejaculate green so green sounds a little bit weird but it's also usually just a sign of either inflammation or infection in the area so if you're not having symptoms it's probably infection and it will just pass also certain vitamins if you're taking certain vitamins that can change the color of your ejaculate as well what about Brown ejaculate so Brown could be a sign of old blood in the semen or interestingly if you've had an injury to the spinal cord when they've done studies on these patients about 27 percent of them had brownish-colored semen well we don't know why this occurs it does seem to be an issue that happens in patients with a spinal cord injury I hope that you guys found this helpful as always I'm going to take care of yourself because you're worth it [Music] foreign [Music]

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