The Prostate gland is the most vulnerable organ in the male body. Prostate disease meet every third man under the age of 20 years. In hyperplasia and adenoma, which leads to problems with erection are frequently the result of chronic prostatitis. This is the reason why you need to know the typical signs of chronic prostatitis and how to treat them.
Chronic prostatitis — what is it?
Chronic prostatitis is long-running in of the prostate the inflammatory process. The term combines several forms of the disease, which is manifested by similar clinical symptoms.
Categories of chronic prostatitis:
- Contagious, which is triggered by bacteria, fungi or viruses;
- Non-communicable (cruising speed) — otherwise known as chronic pelvic pain syndrome occurs with signs of inflammation, with or without them;
- Asymptomatic — in the absence of the clinical forms of inflammation, which is detected only after careful examination of the prostate.
In 95% of cases are diagnosed a non-infectious chronic prostatitis. In this plan the development of the inflammation of the stagnant phenomena in the prostate — your secret, or the blood circulation in the veins.
The risk of disease increased with chronic prostatitis in humans:
- leading irregular sexual life, regularly practicing interrupted intercourse to prevent pregnancy of your partner;
- office workers and drivers (sedentary work is provoking the stagnation of blood in the pelvis);
- prefer to wear tight underwear;
- alcohol abuse and Smoking.
Chronic prostatitis: signs
Chronic prostatitis develops gradually, and for many years, a cause for concern. Occasionally a man can celebrate:
- Pain in the area of the perineum;
- Minimum pain intensity with a typical radiating to the sacrum, the rectum, the genitals;
- Some of the frequent urination with the onset of pain and somewhat abnormal discharge from the urethra channel, weak flow of urine;
- Pain in the glans penis after ejaculation (disappears for 30 min.);
- Burning in the urethra, the occurrence of pain during sexual intercourse.
Stress, hypothermia, previous infections, which leads to impairment of the immune system, and eating spicy food/alcohol can cause exacerbation of chronic prostatitis. The intensity of the disease increases, and so acute inflammation.
With the development of the disease and the involvement in the pathological process of the nerves, increase erectile dysfunction, which has a significant impact on the mental condition of the patient.
However, chronic prostatitis can lead not only to a violation of potency — weak erection, lower sensation during orgasm or complete absence premature ejaculation.
Often the disease leads to the development of cystitis, pyelonephritis, and inflammation of the mod, aggravating the course of the underlying pathology. In addition, significantly increases the risk for the formation of stone in the prostate gland, adenoma or the phenomenon of malignant tumor. In the long chronic prostatitis develops infertility.
Symptoms of chronic prostatitis according to forms and stages
Chronic prostatitis symptoms are dependent on the forms of the disease and the stage of the disease (acute or remission).
Chronic bacterial prostatitis
Signs of chronic prostatitis, caused by pathogenic microflora, occur periodically with varying intensity. During acute inflammation symptoms were most pronounced. Infectious, chronic running prostatitis shows:
- Common symptoms of inflammation in the body, fever, nausea, chills, muscle pain (occur during acute);
- syndrome, local inflammation, pain in the abdomen, aggravated by sexual intercourse, after defecation and urination, the long-term lack of intimacy;
- Disorders of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue — periodic urination, impaired erectile ability;
- Laboratory detection of abnormalities in the prostate secretion and urine test bacteria/fungi, signs of inflammation in the blood (leukocytosis, increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate) and urine (leukocyturia, and protein).
From the inflammation of the symptoms of chronic prostatitis delete. The patient complaints indicate more impaired urination, decreased sexual desire and erectile other disorders, which causes pronounced nervousness.
Non-infectious chronic prostatitis: chronic pelvic pain syndrome
The name itself indicates the dominant in this type of chronic prostatitis symptom — pain. Due to the low intensity of the pain, chronic prostatitis, non-infectious nature often ignored.
Over time the pain increase slightly, and the clinical picture symptoms of sexual dysfunction caused by the progression of the stagnation and decline in muscle tone of the pelvic floor and urinary sphincter.
Often the disease is completely asymptomatic. The diagnosis of chronic prostatitis is the detection of signs of inflammation of the prostate and hyperplasia during diagnostic studies. The urine sample can be periodically recorded during leukocyturia.
Methods of treatment of chronic prostatitis
In any case, the treatment of chronic prostatitis requires the individual selection of therapeutic schemes. When this is taken into account, the cause of disease (infection, stagnation of secretions or venous blood), duration of flow and the presence of aggravating the pathology.
With drugs:
- Antibiotics, treatment with antibiotics is indicated only in cases of severe inflammation, the identification of the bacterial agent in the urine or prostate secretion. Antibiotic therapy lasts 2-8 weeks. After the end of the course, the symptoms often remain unchanged, although the infectious factor is completely eliminated.
- Alpha - blockers prescribed for high blood pressure, hypertonicity of bladder muscles. Their use does not affect the violation of the innervation of the muscles and diseases of the pelvic floor.
- Symptomatic treatment chronic prostatitis — for relief of pain drugs used nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, often in the tablets, to eliminate the anxiety, we recommend taking selective antidepressants. Hormonal therapy — treatment with androgens is carried out in accordance with the deviations of hormonal level.
- Adjuvants — they are called only, if proven by laboratory tests in immunodeficiency.
- Means for editing the levels of uric acid — only useful in the detection of stones in the prostate.
- Vitamin therapy is the method of choice in the treatment of chronic prostatitis available vitamin-mineral complexes. And replacing them with dietary Supplements advertised would not treatment results in addition to wasting money.
Surgical treatment of prostatitis
Depending on the pathologic process of chronic prostatitis, uses a transurethral resection of the prostate (often replace open surgery), endoscopic drainage of the formed cysts of the prostate, surgical correction of the seminal vesicles in violation of the outflow of secretions.
In advanced sclerosis is a prostatectomy. Hyperplasia effective ablative method, microwave thermotherapy and laser ablation.
Other forms of treatment, chronic prostatitis
Some doctors actively prescribing for patients with chronic prostatitis various methods of physical effects on the prostate. However, most of them have more contraindications and are granted only in certain cases:
- Massage of the Prostate (available only a small part of the gland), when hyperplastic changes in the body can cause acute retention of urine and contribute to the spread of the inflammatory process (to the development of sepsis). Also massage may be performed on the stones and the cysts of the prostate, severe venous stasis. Relaxation of the prostate in the quiet secret of the best way is with a natural ejaculation.
- Exercises for the bladder — specific exercises to lengthen the intervals between urination for 4-5 hours is effective on the violation of muscle tone of the bladder and its sphincter. However, their effectiveness is significantly reduced below the specific syndrome.
- Instillation — a deep infusion of medicines into the urethra is very painful and full of complications.
- Electrical stimulation, ultrasound and phonophoresis, magnetic therapy and other methods of muscle stimulation suitable for use only in the case of reduced muscle tone of the pelvic floor. Physiotherapy provide only a temporary solution, and a lasting effect is achieved by the elimination of the cause of the disease.
- Traditional methods — home recipes (pumpkin seeds with honey, alcohol tincture of aspen bark, and others) are to be used only with the permission of the attending physician and does not replace, treatment with medications.
Prediction: is it possible to cure chronic prostatitis?
The prognosis of chronic prostatitis depends on the timely treatment of the patient for skilled care. As you can see, the symptoms and the treatment of chronic prostatitis in men are closely linked — in the absence of hyperplastic changes in the gland and degeneration, comprehensive treatment, it is possible to achieve lasting improvement.
This is important when you have to radically change your life: do not cause the congestion factors, to get rid of harmful habits and proper nutrition.