The prostate is the most vulnerable Organ in the male body. Diseases of the prostate occur in every third man at the age of 20 years. The hyperplasia and adenoma of the prostate, to problems with erection, usually the result of chronic Prostatitis. Therefore, you should the characteristic features of chronic Prostatitis and how you treat them.
Chronic Prostatitis — what is it?
Chronic Prostatitis is a long-term process in the prostate the inflammatory process. The term combines various forms of the disease, manifested by similar clinical symptoms.
Category of chronic Prostatitis:
- Infectious — caused by bacteria, fungus or Virus;
- Infectious (congestive) — also referred to as chronic pelvic pain syndrome, occurs with signs of inflammation with or without you;
- Asymptomatic — in the case of the complete absence of clinical manifestations of the inflammation of the prostate is shown only in the careful investigation.
In 95% of cases of infectious diagnosed chronic Prostatitis. This is the first Plan for the development of the inflammation is the Stagnation in the prostate secretion or of blood circulation in the veins.
The risk of the disease with chronic Prostatitis in humans increases:
- irregular sexual life, the regular Interrupt sex practice to prevent pregnancy of a partner;
- Employees of the office and the driver (seated activity provokes Stagnation of blood in the pelvis);
- prefer tight underwear wear;
- Alcohol and Smoking.
Chronic Prostatitis: signs of an exacerbation
Chronic Prostatitis develops gradually, and many years of concern. Periodically a man can celebrate:
- Complaints in the area of the Perineum;
- Pain minimal intensity, with characteristic radiating to the sacrum, rectum, genitals;
- Some of the frequent urination with the onset of pain and minor pathological urethral discharge from the channel, a weak urine stream;
- Pain in the glans after ejaculation (resolves within 30 min.);
- Burning in the urethra, the occurrence of pain during sexual intercourse.
Stress, hypothermia, previous infection, which can to a weakening of the immunity, and the consumption of spicy foods/alcohol to an exacerbation of chronic Prostatitis. The intensity of the negative impact is increased, and is reminiscent of an acute inflammation.
With the development of the disease and the involvement in the pathological process of the nerves, increasing erectile dysfunction, which significantly impact on the mental state of the patient.
However, chronic Prostatitis is fraught, not only a violation of potency — weak erection, decreased sensations during orgasm or their full absence, premature ejaculation.
Not infrequently, the disease leads to the development of cystitis, Pyelonephritis, and inflammation of the testicles, aggravating within the underlying pathology. In addition, the risk of formation of stones is increased in the prostate, adenoma, or to the development of malignant tumors. With long-term course of chronic Prostatitis infertility develops.
Symptoms of chronic Prostatitis, forms and stages
Symptoms of chronic Prostatitis depend on the Form of the disease and the stage of the disease (exacerbation or Remission).
Bacterial chronic Prostatitis
Symptoms of chronic Prostatitis, caused by pathogenic micro-flora, resulting in regular intervals with varying intensity. During the exacerbation of the symptoms of inflammation, the most significant. - Infectious, chronic Prostatitis is manifested:
- Common features of the inflammation in the body — fever, weakness, chills, muscle pain (resulting from the deterioration);
- Syndrome of local inflammation — pain in the abdomen, worse during intercourse, after a bowel movement, and urination, in cases of extended absence;
- Injury to urogenital System — intermittent urination, impaired erectile ability;
- Deviations in the laboratory tests, detection in the secret of the prostate and the urine analysis, bacteria/fungi, signs of inflammation in the analysis of the blood (leukocytosis, increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate) and urine (leukocyturia, Protein).
Without exacerbation of the inflammatory signs of chronic Prostatitis deleted. Complaints of the patient, more on the disturbed water, decrease in sexual drive, and other violations of erectile, the pronounced nervousness.
Infectious chronic Prostatitis: the syndrome of chronic pelvic pain
The name refers to the predominant in this type of chronic Prostatitis Symptom — pain. Due to the low intensity of the pain, chronic Prostatitis infectious character often remains unnoticed.
In the course of time some of the pain to be intensified, and the disease symptoms, injuries, sexual function, due to the further development of the Stagnation and the reduction of the muscle tone of the pelvic floor and sphincter muscles of the urinary tract.
Often, the disease is completely asymptomatic. Diagnosis of chronic Prostatitis if you have symptoms of an inflammation of the prostate gland and its enlargement during the performance of diagnostic tests. In the analysis of the urine can be fixed in regular intervals pyuria.
Methods of treatment of chronic Prostatitis
In any case, the treatment of chronic Prostatitis, the individual selection of the therapeutic scheme. The cause of the disease (infection, stasis of secretions or venous blood), the duration and the availability of incriminating pathology taken into account.
Drug Therapy:
- Anti-infectives — antibiotics-treatment is shown only in the case of severe inflammation, identification of bacterial agents in the urine, or the secret of the prostate gland. Antibiotic therapy lasts for 2-8 weeks. At the end of the course, the symptoms of the disease are frequently.in full, although infectious factor is completely eliminated
- Alpha - Blocker bladder may be at elevated pressure, hypertonicity of the musculature of the urinary bladder. Their application has no effect in the case of the violation of the Innervation of the muscles and diseases of the pelvic floor.
- Symptomatic treatment of chronic Prostatitis — for the relief of pain drugs NSAIDs are often applied in tablets, to eliminate the anxiety, it is recommended that the intake of selective antidepressants. Hormone therapy — treatment of androgens is carried out in accordance with the deviations of the hormone levels.
- Immune stimulants can be assigned only when in the lab, proven immune defect.
- Means of regulation of the uric acid, can be used only in the detection of stones in the prostate.
- Vitamin therapy — drug of choice in the treatment of chronic Prostatitis, the available Vitamin-Mineral complexes. You have to replace the advertised dietary Supplement does not bring any therapeutic results, except for the excessive waste of money.
The surgical treatment of Prostatitis
Depending on the disease process, the chronic Prostatitis, the transurethral resection of the prostate (often open surgery) to be replaced, the endoscopic Drainage of cysts formed prostate, sores, surgical correction is the seed for disturbed drainage of secretions.
In the case of disseminated sclerosis prostatectomy carried out. In the case of prostate enlargement effective ablative methods — microwave thermal therapy and Laser Ablation.
Other methods of treatment of chronic Prostatitis
Some doctors actively appoint patients with chronic Prostatitis various methods of physical effects on the prostate. But most of them have a number of contraindications, and they are only in certain cases:
- Prostate Massage (is only a small part of the prostate) in the case of hyperplastic changes in the body acute urinary can cause fluid retention and promotes the spread of the inflammatory process (until the development of Sepsis). The Massage can also in the implementation of stones and cysts of the prostate, expressed venous stasis. The liberation of the prostate gland of stagnation of secretions is best done when there is a natural ejaculation.
- Gymnastics for bubble — special exercises for extension of the intervals between the urine up to 4-5 hours effectively in the case of injury of the muscle tone of the urinary bladder and of the sphincter. However, their effectiveness is significantly reduced in the case of a particular syndrome.
- Instillation — Deep Infusion of drugs into the urethra is very painful and associated with complications.
- Electrical stimulation, ultrasound and phonophoresis, magnetic therapy and other methods of muscle stimulation is useful in the application only in the case of reduced muscle tone of the pelvic floor. Physical therapy only provide temporary relief, but lasting impact will be achieved if the elimination of the causes of the disease.
- Traditional methods — homemade recipes (pumpkin seeds with honey, alcohol, Infusion of the bark of aspen and other), only lodges with the consent of the treating Andro and not in any way drug therapy to replace.
Prognosis: is it possible to cure chronic Prostatitis?
The prognosis in the chronic Prostatitis is directly dependent on the timeliness of the treatment of the patient to qualified help. As you may have noticed, the symptoms and the treatment of chronic Prostatitis in men are closely connected to each other — in the absence of hyperplastic changes in the gland, and of the dystrophy, under the condition of a comprehensive treatment, can achieve a stable improvement.
It is important to rethink radically his life: eliminate the congestion factors, to get rid of bad habits and eat wholesome to provoke.