Prostatitis is an inflammation of the prostate gland.
Prostate is also a prostate, only in men. One small organ performs several functions: partly responsible for ejaculation, partly for urination, partly for protection against infection. Therefore, when the prostate is sick, the case is not limited to pain, for example. Problems start throughout the genitourinary system.
Prostatitis is, contrary to general opinion, not age -related diseases.
Increased prostate and cancer, it is more common in older men, and prostatitis can be painful at any age.
How it happened
Like most inflammation, prostatitis is acute and chronic.
- Sharp - This is what starts suddenly, and then either passes or turns into a chronic one. As a rule, the infection in the development of this event is to blame.
- Chronic - indicated by unpleasant symptoms, then calming. This condition can last for years. Unfortunately, it is a widespread second choice, and the reason is not only contagious.
What is the symptoms of prostatitis
The signs of prostatitis are slightly different depending on the type of disease. The patient will help a little of these details, but the doctor needs a diagnosis to make a diagnosis. Therefore, be sure to tell you on acceptance: when symptoms appear, when they subside, which, in your opinion, acts as the cause of the disease.
So, the main symptoms of prostatitis:
- Sore. The prostate is located under the bladder, between the roads where the urine and the rectum. Therefore, due to inflammation, it can hurt in some places at once: in the penis, around it, in the scrotum, around the anus or even in the lower abdomen or back. Pain can appear during ejaculation or after sex.
- Difficulty with urine. Pain and burning appear, you need to run to the toilet often, waking up at night. It can be difficult to get started and complete the process, even if the blood is in the urine.
- Released from the urethra. Thick liquid you have never noticed before.
- Problems with potential.
If any of the symptoms lasted for more than three months, this is already a chronic prostatitis. And if in acute prostatitis all these signs are visible and they cannot be missed, then chronic can only be clearly realized with erectile dysfunction.
When to go to the doctor
Once you see the symptoms of prostatitis listed. It should take the test and conduct research to diagnose and prescribe the treatment correctly. Some exams are unpleasant, but it is definitely not worse than prostatitis.
You cannot postpone a visit to a doctor for a minute, if you have dysuria - the inability to go to the toilet. This is a dangerous condition where fluid continues to accumulate in the bladder. It should immediately move to the hospital or call an ambulance.
From which prostatitis comes from
If prostatitis is contagious, then the reason is microorganisms that penetrate the urethra and rise to the prostate or get there from other infections. Often infections cling to unprotected sex, so we must consider the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases.
In all other cases, it is impossible to say exactly why the prostate is inflamed. We can only consider some unstable phenomena due to inactive work and lack of sports and the influence of bad habits.
If you have a prostate, you can get sick.
But there are risk factors that warn that health is in danger:
- Age from 30 to 50 years.
- Any infection in the pelvic organs and abdominal cavity (in the intestines, for example).
- Acute prostatitis in the past.
- Any operation and intervention in the genitourinary system.
- Pelvic injury.
How to treat prostatitis
It all depends on the reason why it appears. If bacteria should be blamed, they are destroyed by antibiotics. Usually everything is limited to this. There are rare complications that require surgery and processing of prostate surgery.
If not in microbes, they try to reduce symptoms with painkillers and special products that relieve smooth muscle and help solve urinary problems. They use physical treatment, warm baths, physical education - everything that will work and where it will be easier.
How not get prostatitis
Unfortunately, there are no hundred percent of prostatitis prevention measures, especially when it is about chronic diseases that are not caused by infection. There is no reliable data that supplements, folk medicine or breakthrough methodology will protect you. Everything we cannot lean on to annoying foods, drink enough water to provide normal urination, and protect against infection:
- Follow the cleanliness.
- Use a condom to avoid IPP.
- To treat any infectious disease, especially urinary tract.
- When unpleasant symptoms appear, visit your doctor immediately to start treatment as early as possible and do not start the disease.