Not all adult men know how to treat prostatitis, so few pay attention to the initial symptoms of the disease. However, today it is one of the most common urological pathologies, so it is absolutely necessary to get acquainted with its characteristics and manifestations. It is a common belief that the disease is common in mature men, but today this disappointing diagnosis can be made in fairly young people aged 18-20 years.
Simplicity is an extremely vulnerable organ in the penetration, development, and spread of pathogens, and is therefore negatively affected by diseases of the bladder, urethral walls, iron deferents, and other organs and systems.
What do you need to know first about prostatitis?
To accurately diagnose prostatitis, you must first become familiar with the main features of the disease. It is an inflammatory process localized in the prostate gland. Inflammation is usually caused by infectious microorganisms that can enter the prostate in a variety of ways. However, infection of the prostate does not always indicate the onset of prostatitis. A combination of certain factors is required for the pathology to manifest.
Symptoms of prostatitis can occur for the following reasons:
- Stool problems (such as frequent constipation or other similar illnesses).
- Sedentary lifestyle (workplace, home), little physical activity and stress. Taking this factor into account, the risk group includes men who perform various professional activities: drivers, programmers, office workers.
- Hypothermia of the body (systemic or single major).
- Prolonged abstinence (lack of sex) or overactive sex. Signs of the disease are also possible during normal sexual activity.
- Common stressful and depressive states, disorders of a person's psycho-emotional and psychological background.
- Problems with food intake (frequent overeating, preference for spicy, smoked, salty foods, alcoholic beverages, lack of at least some diet).
How common is prostatitis?
Treatment of this disease is often not difficult, as prostatitis can be recognized at an early stage, knowing all its possible manifestations. It should be noted at once that chronic and acute forms of pathology are usually distinguished.
- If an acute form of the disease begins to develop, the main symptom of prostatitis will be the presence of inflammation in the prostate area. The inflammatory process in this case necessarily involves an increase in body temperature (often up to 39-39. 5 degrees), pain in the groin and perineum, pain during urination and defecation.
- Chronic forms of the disease strangely rarely bother patients (except in cases of exacerbation). Therefore, many men simply do not pay attention to the manifestation of male prostatitis. During the period of disease exacerbation, the patient may experience a slight increase in body temperature (approximately 37-37. 5 degrees), discomfort and unusual sensations during urination and defecation, and the presence of relatively small amounts of purulent or mucous contents from the urethra. Given the insignificance of such manifestations, many men attribute these symptoms to other conditions, with the result that treatment and referral to specialists are postponed until the last.
Signs of Illness
Signs of prostatitis in men are very specific and indicative, so knowing them, the patient can independently suspect the manifestations of this pathology, see a doctor in time and start treatment in time. There is even a certain dysuria syndrome that clearly indicates a high probability of pathology in a person. Six main features can be distinguished simultaneously, which in different cases can appear together or separately.
But in cases where there are 2-3 signs, this is already a serious reason to appeal to the urologist immediately:
- Urination problems (difficulty urinating, urine is released drop by drop).
- Urine flow is rather slow, falls off, short range, the patient cannot physically confirm.
- Pain when urinating.
- Increased duration of urination, split, intermittent flow, spraying in different directions.
- After urination, the feeling remains that the bladder is not completely empty.
- In the evening and at night, it becomes necessary to go to the toilet more often.
If a man has such symptoms, he should not draw sudden clinical conclusions. This is due to the fact that regardless of the onset of symptoms, prostatitis has a rather complex pathogenesis, so it is better to have the diagnosis entrusted to a trained professional.
Therefore, it is strictly forbidden to start treatment for a disease based solely on well-known symptoms. With any urologist, you can clarify the symptoms and exactly how prostatitis appears in men, who will necessarily take into account not only the symptoms that appear, but also the results of laboratory and instrumental tests to make a diagnosis.
Main symptoms
As mentioned above, the disease can be chronic or acute. Frequent urination is common and one of the most important symptoms. A healthy person usually experiences no more than 10-11 urination stimuli during the day (the normal indicator is 5-6 urges).
The development of inflammation of the prostate has a negative effect on the bladder, so the following symptoms appear in the presence of the disease:
- Increase in the number of urges (while the daily amount of urine remains unchanged).
- Urine is produced in small doses, which is associated with receiving false signals from bladder receptors due to the presence of an inflammatory process. Therefore, it is also possible that the bladder is still full after emptying.
- Urinary pain caused by narrowing of the urethra due to an inflammatory process in the prostate.
- Difficulty urinating due to inflammation of certain areas of the urethra. In some cases, men are unable to empty their bladders at all because of this.
- At night, the bladder walls start giving false signals, which increases the number of trips to the toilet during sleep.
Prostatitis can be partially diagnosed along with monitoring body temperature and problems with urination. If these problems are accompanied by an increase in temperature to subfebrile and febrile values, we can most likely speak of the development of the pathology. It is important to note that in the later stages of the development of the disease, on the contrary, a decrease in body temperature of 35, 5-36 degrees is observed, which is in any case an extremely negative and dangerous symptom that is not tolerated.
Blood may be present in the patient's urine during the middle stage of the disease. This property is relatively rare and often non-signaling in nature, but extremely dangerous. Hyperplasia may begin with purulent fusion of the prostate, trauma to the prostate, and complications of the inflammatory process. The cure in this case is complicated (often surgery is required).
Treatment should be started as soon as the first symptoms of the disease appear. If you have at least some, albeit insignificant, but seemingly problems with urination, which in some cases is associated with an increase in body temperature and pain in the area of simplicity, you should diagnose a urologist immediately. It is essential to pay attention to the signs of pathology described above, as rapid and painless control of prostatitis is only possible with timely treatment.