Inflammation of the prostate> is a disease that mainly affects men between the ages of twenty and fifty-five. The older the man, the greater the risk of prostatitis.
With the initial prostatitis, the functions of the gland are activated. Along with the onset of inflammation, tissue regeneration occurs.
Let's take a closer look at the early signs of prostatitis in men and their treatment.
How to recognize?
The onset of prostatitis is rarely unambiguous, as it is sometimes asymptomatic and its symptoms are individual for each patient and change over time.
These features include:
- A man is having a little trouble urinating in the toilet. The gland gradually enlarges, the urinary canal contracts.
- The patient loses interest in sex. Difficulties in arousing the penis increase when attempting sexual contact. Orgasm is reached with difficulty, or weak, or disappears completely.
- Burning in urethra, itching in perineum.
- I often want to urinate, but it comes out drip.
- The semen comes out quickly during sex with minimal pleasure.
- General fatigue, depression, irritability, aggressiveness, increased anxiety.
A man suffers from weakness, his capacity for work decreases.
Noise in my ears, echoing in my head.
In the morning, a person feels overwhelmed, loses the initiative in life.
At the same time, at night, sometimes prolonged erection and painful ejaculation occur spontaneously, not associated with sex.
Observing these phenomena, the patient calms down, believing that he is well with the potency, the problems, in his opinion, are related to the partner, to their relationship. He suffers from depression, which worsens the development of the disease.
The first signs of prostatitis in a man
There is definite difficulty for the physician and the patient in associating these symptoms with prostate disease. They can be caused by the stress experienced (especially if there are reasons), with conflict in personal life.
They are more confidently associated with incipient prostatitis if other symptoms follow:
- The patient feels pain in the groin, balls, perineum, lower back.
- With prostatitis, frequent urination, especially at night, this process becomes more and more painful, the result of attempts to empty the bladder is less and less insignificant.
- Mucus discharge from the urethra begins.
The symptoms of the first prostatitis build up slowly over a year, two, three. Worse yet, they have the character of a chain reaction: due to the growth of negative phenomena in the prostate, a man not only does not find satisfaction on his own, but also is unable to satisfy his sexual partner.
For this reason, sexual contact is less and less frequent, resulting in stagnation of blood circulation in the pelvic area. Such stagnation, in turn, is one of the causes of prostatitis.
Acute prostatitis differs in symptomatology from chronic prostatitis.
Its attributes:
- The temperature for no apparent reason sometimes rises to 38-39 degrees, with parenchymal prostatitis - up to 40 ° C.
- Dysuria has reached the point of not being able to urinate.
- The pain in the perineum becomes particularly severe.
- The patient suffers from chills, feels nauseous before vomiting.
- I have trouble defecating.
What to do?
In chronic inflammation, the pain is mild, periodically appears and disappears in the perineum, is administered to the lower back, pubis. Excessive sweating, especially in the perineum.
The sexual dysfunction becomes permanent. Instead of urine for prostatitis in the morning, the secretion of the prostate is secreted. The pain is mainly painful, it spreads to the sacrum, suprapubic, rectum, penis.
The rate of development of sexual disorders depends on the degree of involvement in the process of pathology of the seminal tubercle, seminal vesicles located next to the prostate. With a long course of the initial stage of prostatitis in men, the intensity of production of sex hormones decreases.
Young men in such cases often panic and fear intercourse. The fear of "dishonoring", of not being able to perform the necessary actions with a partner leads to neurosis, which further worsens sexual function.
Sexual disturbances occur when there is an excess of female hormones in a man's body, a lack of male hormones. They can also be the result of hidden, asymptomatic inflammation of the prostate, not previously identified. Their development sometimes leads to male infertility.
If you find the first signs of prostatitis, what to do? When these signs appear, you need to make an appointment with a urologist, who will send the patient for tests, depending on his results, diagnose (or not) the disease, its type.
Identification of the ethology of prostatitis: bacterial or not is also of the utmost importance for the choice of the treatment method. Treating non-infectious prostatitis with antibiotics, for example, is not only unnecessary, but also very harmful to the body.
First aid for prostatitis will be provided by a doctor. It aims to restore normal urination with prostatitis. To do this, it is necessary to urgently reduce the size of the prostate, which compresses the urethral canal and does not allow urine to escape.
Relaxation of the muscles of the gland can be achieved, for example, by massage of the prostate.
Prostate massage is a procedure that requires special skills from a masseur.
Its execution by an amateur is fraught with serious complications, irreversible damage to internal organs.
For the treatment of bacterial prostatitis, antibiotic therapy is prescribed, rectal suppositories. It should be understood that harmful microorganisms cannot be exterminated with folk remedies, exercise, physical procedures and diet.
These methods will promote healing or be necessary during remission.
At the same time, for the treatment of bacterial prostatitis, their combination may be sufficient for a complete cure without "chemistry", that is, pharmacy drugs. It all depends on the stage of the disease, the individual characteristics of the patient's body, the experience of the doctor.
If the disease has left the exacerbation stage, there is no more infection, the patient should be cured as soon as possible:
- start a regular sex life as soon as possible;
- eliminates bad habits. Eat a diet for patients with prostatitis;
- move more, play sports. Perform special exercises for men.
What other illnesses are associated with these symptoms?
The symptoms described do not necessarily indicate that the disease is prostatitis. They also accompany kidney disease, urethral infections, venereal disease and others.
Urethritis is the most common male disease. It is an infection of the urethra caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi. They are infected mainly through sexual contact.
Sometimes an infection takes a convenient hour in the body and manifests itself when the immune system is weakened. The reasons for its decrease are the same as those that cause non-bacterial prostatitis: hypothermia, bad habits, chaotic sexual behavior, abuse of acidic, spicy, salty foods, stress, physical activity.
What exactly is inflamed: the prostate or the urethra (or both), will be shown by tests, ultrasound. On the basis of the doctor will give a diagnosis.
You now know the first symptoms of prostatitis in men and their treatment. As with any disease, the sooner prostatitis is detected, the faster you will cure it.
Neglecting the first signs of prostatitis and treatment, brings frivolous patients to the surgeon's table. Better to act in a timely manner.