Post Date December, 03 2023
Prostate hypertrophy is a common disease in elderly men. Due to prostatic hyperplasia, the urethra can cause difficulty in urination, which eventually leads to obstruction of the urethra, resulting in urinary retention. Therefore, the following points should be paid attention to before the current hypertrophy of the prostate gland develops to urinary retention, so as to achieve early detection and treatment.
One is frequent urination, which is a major symptom in the early stage of prostate enlargement, especially increased nocturia. Patients can urinate 1 to 5 times or more every night, because prostate enlargement causes posterior urethral infarction, which hinders normal urination and prevents the bladder from being completely emptied every time they urinate. There is always a small amount of urine remaining in the bladder.
The second reason is that urination is laborious, and patients require a lot of effort to urinate, and the urine flow is very fine. The distance of the urine flow to the outside is also very short. Some patients, due to holding their breath for too long during urination, need to exhale, and the urine flow is interrupted with the decrease of abdominal pressure, requiring further efforts to continue urination. These all indicate that prostate hyperplasia has had a certain degree of impact on the urethra.
The third is hematuria, which occurs in the early stage of prostate enlargement because the enlarged prostate is in a congested state. When urinating vigorously, it can cause the rupture of surface blood vessels and cause bleeding.
Fourthly, in the early stage of prostate enlargement, patients may exhibit increased libido that is not in line with their age, or their libido may suddenly become stronger due to a consistent lack of libido. This is often due to prostate hyperplasia, which leads to dysfunction of the prostate and feedback to temporary enhancement of function.
