Chronic prostatitis is the most common inflammatory disease of the organs of the male reproductive system. Surprises and young people and men in age. Statistics says that up to 80. years 8 of 10 men find out which chronic prostatitis from one's own experience.
What is chronic prostatitis
Prostatitis is prostate inflammation. Most often, genitourinary system infections that were not cured at time lead to its phenomenon. The catalyst for the development of inflammation can be hypothermia, lack of physical activity, reducing immunity due to other diseases, sexually transmitted diseases, the presence of bad habits, constant fatigue and stress.
The culmination of the incidence is 20-40 years - the most active age. However, it is not easy to identify this disease - prostatis symptoms are often masked for other diseases and vice versa - diseases of other bodies can give a clinical picture of similar prostatitis.
Distinguish Acute bacterial prostatitis And Chronic prostatitis . The first species is rare - no more than 5% of all cases. 95% is a chronic prostatitis, which is extremely rarely the consequence of an acute form of disease. Often chronic prostatitis is primary.
For reference
The prostatural gland is included in maintaining the correct pH of the urinary tract and sperm sustainability, protects the genitourin system from infections.
Symptoms of chronic prostatitis
The first sign of prostatitis development is the occurrence of discomfort, as well as pain or reduction in pain in the lower abdomen. Sometimes pain gives thigh or lower back and often worsens after ejaculation.
Sexual dysfunction develops very quickly - libido reduces, problems arise with the erection and duration of sexual intercourse. And finally, the pain begins to follow each urination.
If you notice such symptoms in yourself, do not self-imitate - determine whether you or other disease can prostatitis, only a doctor can.
Laboratory signs of chronic prostatitis
The diagnosis is performed not only on the basis of patients complaints - to identify prostatitis, laboratory tests are needed. Specifically, urine analysis, ejaculation and secret prostate glands. In addition, ultrasound is often done to determine the size and form of a prostate.
In chronic bacterial prostatitis, there are red blood cells on microscopic examination in the secret of the gland, the presence of E. Coli, Enterobacteria, Clostridia or other microorganisms in ejaculation is also characteristic. In chronic medicine, prostatitis of laboratory tests shows the presence of leukocytes in secret glands and in the third part of the urine.
Methods of treatment of chronic prostatitis
As a rule, prostatitis is successfully treated with conservative methods. But therapy should be complex. In addition, it is warmly recommended to review lifestyle - an unbalanced diet, sitting lifestyle and random sexual connections really play a big role in the development of chronic prostatitis.
Medications
Medicine therapy follows several goals at once - prescribe painkillers and anti-alphabet drugs, as well as medications activated by regenerative and immunomodulating functions of body cells. The treatment of chronic prostatitis will most likely require the passage of the antibiotic course. The course lasts about the month and a half, sometimes several approaches need. Probiotic drugs are prescribed for the prevention of DISSIOSE development.
Prostate massage
The prostate massage is handed manually through the anus. This is not the most pleasant procedure, but its efficiency is very high.
Physiotherapy procedures
The treatment of chronic prostatitis with thermal physiotherapy gives good results by improving microcirculation and absorption of tissue medications. Physiotherapy procedures include ultrasonic heating and irrigation antibacterial solution using ENEMAS.
Balneotherapy
In many sanatoriums, chronic prostatitis treats successfully with balneotherapy methods, ie mineral water. To treat patients with prostatitis, weak mineralized water is usually prescribed inside and in the form of a bathroom. There are well-known balenological resorts in which prostatitis is treated.
Diet therapy
You should start adhering to a special diet on the first signs of prostatitis. First of all, you should leave alcoholic drinks, because ethyl alcohol irritates channels prostate, increasing pain and inflammation. It is also necessary to restrict the use of fatty meat to exclude the creation of cholesterol plaque and further decline in blood circulation. Punds, mushrooms, off, salty and spicy dishes, tea and coffee, carbonated drinks, as well as pastries are prohibited.
Diet for chronic prostatitis should contain food rich in zinc (located in seafood and pumpkin seeds). It is recommended to eat as many vegetables as possible (other than those that contribute to gas formation - for example, cauliflower), dairy products, cereals and dried fruit.
Important!
It should be understood that a diet in chronic prostatitis is not a temporary measure. If you have made such a diagnosis, the principles of proper diet should be constantly held, otherwise the relapse is inevitable.
Surgical intervention
Prostatitis operations are seldom prescribed. The risk of complications and failure of treatment, as well as a relatively long period of rehabilitation, surpasses the benefit that the operation can bring. Therefore, the operation in this case is an extreme measure. The surgical intervention is shown only in cases in which conservative treatment does not give effect, as well as in emergency conditions - the abscers of the prostate, the pure abscess of neighboring tissues, the presence of renal and bubble, the benign hyperplasia of prostate or suspicious oncology.
The main methods of surgical treatment of prostatitis include:
- Prostratektomija - complete prostate removal;
- Prostate resection - the removal of a part of the gland;
- Circumcisio - circular elimination of entire overflow to prevent the development of prostatitis and the treatment of its chronic forms;
- Drainage of abscess to release the purulent contents from it.
The treatment of prostatitis takes long months and does not always lead with full recovery. If you are diagnosed with chronic prostatitis, prepare for the fact that you will need to change your lifestyle, otherwise therapy will be meaningless. Undoubtedly, prostatitis prevention is much easier than treatment. To prevent the development of this disease, always use barrier protection products, try to move as much as possible (prostatitis is a sitting disease of lifestyle), follow the correct diet and prevent hypothermia.