Prostatitis is inflammation of the prostate gland.
The prostate is also a prostate, only in men. A small organ performs different functions: partially responsible for ejaculation, partially for urination, partly for protection against infections. Therefore, when the prostate gets sick, the case is not limited to pain, for example. The problems begin in the entire parental parent system.
Prostatitis is, contrary to common opinion, not a disease related to age.
An increase in the prostate and its cancer, in fact, are more common in elderly men and prostatitis can be sick at any age.
As it happens
Like most inflammatory diseases, prostatitis is acute and chronic.
- Safe: this is what started suddenly, and then passed or transformed into chronic. As a rule, it is the fault of the infection in this development of events.
- Chronic: the one that manifests itself from unpleasant symptoms, therefore calm. This condition can last for years. Unfortunately, it is the second option that is widespread and its causes are not only contagious.
What are the symptoms of prostatitis
The signs of prostatitis are slightly different depending on the type of disease. Patients will help these details little, but the doctor needs a diagnosis to make a diagnosis. Therefore, be sure to tell you at the reception: when the symptoms appear, when they appease, which, in your opinion, is served by the disease.
Therefore, the main symptoms of prostatitis:
- Pain. The prostate is located under the bladder, between the paths in which the urine passes and the rectum. Therefore, due to inflammation, it can hurt in different places at the same time: in the penis, around it, in the scrotum, around the anus or even in the lower abdomen or in the back. Pain may appear during ejaculation or after sex.
- Difficulty with urination. Pain and combustion appears, you have to run often in the bathroom, get up at night. It can be difficult to start and finish the process, it can even appear blood in the urine.
- Download from the urethra. A liquid often that you have not noticed before.
- Problems with power.
If any of the symptoms lasts more than three months, this is already chronic prostatitis. And if in acute prostatitis all these signs are evident and cannot be missing, then chronic can occur only with erectile dysfunction.
When to go to the doctor
As soon as you notice the listed symptoms of prostatitis. It will be necessary to carry out tests and conduct research to diagnose and correctly prescribe the treatment. Some exams are unpleasant, but certainly not worse than prostatitis.
You can't even postpone a visit from a doctor for a minute, if you have dysuria: the inability to go to the bathroom. This is a dangerous condition in which the liquid continues to accumulate in the bladder. It is necessary to move urgently to the hospital or call an ambulance.
Where prostatitis comes from
If the prostatitis is contagious, then its reason are the microorganisms that have penetrated the urethra and have risen to the prostate or have managed to get there from other focals of the infection. Often the infection clings after unprotected sex, so we must think about the prevention of sexual transmission diseases.
In all other cases, it is impossible to say exactly because the prostate is inflamed. Some stagnant phenomena can only be taken due to sedentary work and the lack of sport 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 infections in the organs of the pelvis and the abdominal cavity (in the intestine, for example).
- Acute prostatitis in the past.
- Any operations and interventions in the parental system -urrinaria.
- Pelvic lesions.
How to treat prostatitis
It all depends on the reason why it appeared. If the bacteria are to be blamed, they are destroyed by antibiotics. Usually everything is limited to this. There are rarely complications that require surgery and surgical processing of the prostate.
If it is not in microbes, they try to reduce symptoms with painkillers and special products that relax the smooth muscles and help solve urination problems. They use physical care, hot baths, physical education - everything that will work and from which it will become easier.
How not to get prostatitis
Unfortunately, there are no reliable one hundred percent measures of prostatitis prevention, especially when it comes to a chronic disease that is not caused by infections. There are no reliable data that food supplements, a popular remedy or a revolutionary methodology will protect you. Everything we can not rest for irritating foods, drink enough water to provide normal urination and protect against infections:
- Follow the hygiene.
- Use condoms to prevent the IPP.
- To treat any infectious disease, in particular the urinary tract.
- When unpleasant symptoms appear, visit a doctor immediately to start treatment as soon as possible and not start the disease.