Sexual Health
Are only middle-aged and elderly people suffering from prostatitis? Is chronic prostatitis infectious
Many patients have misconceptions about prostate disease, which to some extent makes it difficult to cure prostate disease. Due to the complexity of the pathology, physiology and pathogenesis of prostatitis and its unique anatomical characteristics, as well as many unscientific advertising misleading in many "advertising hospitals", and the lack of medical ethics and the "exaggerated" preaching of doctors with real talents in these "advertising hospitals", This has caused many misunderstandings about prostatitis.
1、 Only middle-aged and elderly people get prostatitis
In fact, the high incidence of chronic prostatitis is young and middle-aged people. Generally speaking, drivers, sailors, miners, police, cadres, entrepreneurs and government functionaries are the high incidence of this disease. Factors such as long-term riding, cooling, alcoholism, indulgence and abstinence are the reasons for the high incidence of prostatitis. However, teenagers in high school and middle school also have this disease.
Prostatic hyperplasia (hypertrophy) is common in the elderly.
2、 Prostatitis and prostatic hyperplasia are the same
Some people often confuse the two, and many patients worry that chronic prostatitis will cause prostatic hyperplasia (hypertrophy of the prostate). In fact, these understandings are wrong. This is because chronic prostatitis and prostatic hyperplasia are two completely different diseases. Generally, prostatic hyperplasia occurs only after the age of 45 in men, and most of them are prostatitis before the age of 45.
3、 Chronic prostatitis is infectious
In clinical practice, 80-90% of chronic prostatitis can not find pathogenic bacteria, that is, non-bacterial prostatitis. This type of prostatitis is non-infectious, and the female vagina itself has certain self-cleaning and disease-resistant ability. Patients with chronic prostatitis can boldly live a married sex life. Of course, very few prostatitis are caused by infection of sexual pathogens, such as chlamydia, mycoplasma and gonococcal prostatitis, which are infectious, and sexual life is prohibited before cure.
4、 Chronic prostatitis is a venereal disease
Many people know that vaginitis, adnexitis and pelvic inflammation are the most common gynecological diseases in women. In the same way, chronic prostatitis is also the most common male disease in men. STD is the abbreviation of sexually transmitted diseases, which are mainly transmitted by sexual behavior. At present, the most common sexually transmitted diseases in China include gonorrhea, non-gonorrhea, condyloma acuminatum, syphilis, etc. It can be seen that it is extremely wrong to confuse prostatitis with sexually transmitted diseases. As long as people have a little common sense of medical science, they will not confuse the two. By analyzing the reasons for this misconception, chronic prostatitis may be a male disease (a male-specific disease), mistaken for a sexually transmitted disease.