The prostate's most vulnerable organ in the male body. Diseases of the prostate occur in three men above the age of 20 years. When you do this, the hyperplasia of the prostate and adenoma, causing erection problems, most often, are the result of prostatitis chronic. This is why you should know the typical symptoms of prostatitis chronic and how to treat it.
Chronic prostatitis — what is it?
Chronic prostatitis is long-lived and flows in the prostate the inflammatory process. The term brings together various forms of diseases that manifest similar clinical symptoms.
Category of prostatitis chronic:
- Infection — caused by bacteria, fungi or viruses;
- Non-communicable diseases (stagnant) — also called syndrome of chronic pelvic pain, flowing with signs of inflammation, or without them;
- Asymptomatic — in the absence of clinical manifestations of inflammation detected only when a careful examination of the prostate.
In 95% of cases are diagnosed non-communicable chronic prostatitis. In this case, the first plan of development of the inflammation out of the stagnation phenomenon in the prostate — your secret, or even of the circulation of the blood in the veins.
The risk of the disease chronic prostatitis up-to-date in people:
- leading irregular sexual life, regular practitioners of interruption of sexual intercourse to prevent pregnancy partners;
- office workers and drivers (sedentary work, and causes stagnation of blood within the pelvis);
- prefer to use the tight underwear;
- abusing alcohol and smoking.
Chronic prostatitis: signs of worsening
Chronic prostatitis develops gradually, and many years may not cause concern. Periodically, the man can celebrate:
- The discomfort in the groin area;
- The pain of a minimum of intensity, with characteristic radiating to the sacrum, the rectum, the genitals;
- Some increase in the frequency of urination, with the appearance of aches and pains and minor pathological secretion of the channel urethral, weak urine stream;
- The pain of the head of the penis after ejaculation (disappears within 30 mines.);
- Burning sensation in the urethra, the occurrence of pain during sexual intercourse.
Stress, hypothermia, transferred the infection, leading to a weakening of the immune system, and the consumption of spicy foods/alcohol can cause the worsening of prostatitis chronic. When the intensity of the painful manifestations approximates and resembles an inflammation.
With the development of the disease and the involvement in a pathological process of all the nerves intensifies the erectile dysfunction, which is very affects the psychological state of the patient.
However, the chronic prostatitis is filled with not only the violation of potency — weak, erection, decrease of sensation to orgasm or their total absence, of premature ejaculation.
Often, the disease leads to the development of cystitis, pyelonephritis, and inflammation of the testes, the aggravating factor of during the underlying pathology. In addition, significantly increases the risk of formation of stones in the prostate gland, adenomas or even the appearance of a malignant tumor. When prolonged duration of prostatitis chronic develops infertility.
The symptoms of prostatitis, chronic forms and stages
The symptoms of prostatitis chronic depend on the form of the disease and the stage of the disease (exacerbation or remission).
Prostatitis chronic bacterial
Symptoms of prostatitis chronic, caused by a pathogenic, bacterial flora, periodically occur with different levels of intensity. During the aggravation of the symptoms of inflammation more expressed. Infectious, chronic flows prostatitis manifests itself:
- General signs of inflammation in the body — fever, weakness, chills, muscle aches (occurring when aggravation);
- syndrome local inflammation — pain in the lower part of the belly, the growing when sexual intercourse, after defecation and urination, during the prolonged absence of proximity;
- Violations on the part of the urinary system — urination intermittent, impaired ability;
- Deficiencies in laboratory studies — the discovery in the secret of the prostate gland, and the analysis of the urine of bacteria/fungi, signs of inflammation in the blood analysis (leukocytosis, increased ESR), and urine (leukocyturia, protein).
Outside the aggravation of the inflammation symptoms of prostatitis chronic erased. The patient complaint most point to poor urination, decreased sexual desire and other violations that cause expresses nervousness.
Non-communicable chronic prostatitis: syndrome of chronic pelvic pain
The name itself indicates predominant in this type of chronic prostatitis symptom is pain. Due to the low intensity of pain, prostatitis, chronic non-communicable character often ignored.
With the passing of time, the pain increased, the clinical symptoms of disorders of sexual function caused by the progression of stagnation phenomena and reduction of the muscle tone of the pelvic floor and sphincter of the urethra.
Often the disease occurs absolutely asymptomatic. The diagnosis of chronic prostatitis is placed when it detects signs of inflammation from the prostate and benign prostatic hyperplasia during the performance of diagnostic studies. In the urine analysis can be monitored periodically leukocyturia.
Methods of treating prostatitis-chronic
In each case, the treatment of prostatitis chronic requires the individual selection of the therapeutic regimen. Taking into consideration the cause of the disease (infection, stasis of secretions or blood venous), the duration of the current and the presence of aggravating the pathology.
Medical therapy:
- Antibacterial drugs — treatment with antibiotics appears only when a strong inflammation, identification of the bacterial agent in the urine or in the secret of the prostate gland. Antibiotic therapy continues 2-8 weeks. At the end of the course the symptoms of the disease, are often held in full, although the infection factor is completely eliminated.
- Alpha - blockers — assigned to the pressure, hypertonus of the muscles of the bladder. Its application has no effect when the violation of the nerve supply muscle and disease of the pelvic floor.
- Symptomatic treatment of prostatitis — chronic to hit the starting point of the pain of the syndrome are applied drugs NSAIDS, often in the tablets, to eliminate the anxiety it is recommended that the reception and selective anti-depressants. Hormone replacement therapy — treatment of androgens is accomplished in accordance with disorders of hormone levels.
- Immunostimulants — are given only when proven laboratory immunodeficiency.
- The tool, regulating the levels of uric acid, — are suitable only when it is detected stones in the prostate.
- Vitaminasterapia — the tool of choice in the treatment of prostatitis chronic become available, vitamins and minerals. Replace them by advertised add-ins does not bring the therapeutic result, in addition to redundant, a waste of money.
Surgical treatment of prostatitis
Depending on the pathological process, from which chronic prostatitis, apply to transurethral resection of the prostate (often replaces open surgery), endoscopic drainage formed cysts of the prostate, correction surgical the seminal vesicles, when broken exit of secretions.
When it is disclosed to the multiple sclerosis is performed prostatectomy. When benign prostatic hyperplasia effective methods ablative — micro-thermotherapy techniques and laser ablation.
Other methods of treatment of prostatitis chronic
Some physicians actively prescribed for patients with chronic prostatitis different methods of physical impact on the prostate. However, most of them have a number of contraindications and are assigned only in certain occasions:
- The prostate massage (available only a small part of the breast) if the hyperplastic changes in the body can cause acute urinary retention, and contributes to the spread of the inflammatory process (until the development of sepsis). Also the massage is not possible to carry out the stones and cysts of the prostate, as the duct stagnate. The release of the prostate stagnant, the secret of the best way occurs when the natural early.
- Gymnastics for the bladder — specific exercises to lengthen the intervals between urination until 4-5 hours are effective in the case of violation of muscle tone, the bladder and the sphincter. However, its effectiveness decreases with a syndrome.
- Infusion deep infusion of drugs in the urethra and very painful and full of complications.
- Electrical stimulation, ultrasound and phonophoresis, magnetic therapy, and other techniques of muscle stimulation are appropriate in the application with only the lower tones the muscles of the pelvic floor. Physical therapy gave only temporary relief, but the strong effect is achieved when the elimination of the cause of the disease.
- Folk methods — homemade recipes (pumpkin seeds with honey, alcohol, infusion of the bark of aspen and other) apply only with the approval of your andrologist and so any substitute pharmacotherapy.
Forecast: you can cure chronic prostatitis?
Prediction in chronic prostatitis depends directly on the timeliness of treatment of a patient by a qualified professional. As you may notice, symptoms and treatment of prostatitis chronic men are closely related — in the absence of hyperplastic changes in the gland and degeneration, subject to complex treatment, you may be able to resistant to improvement status.
It is important when you radically rethink your life: delete trigger the stagnation of the phenomenon, factors, get rid of bad habits and fully eat.