Post Date December, 03 2023
"Because prostatitis is a disease that typically affects middle-aged and elderly men, most of whom are married, they are afraid of transmitting it to their wives.". Many people ask whether the onset of prostatitis is infectious, and whether it will affect sexual life and sexual intercourse. Let's find out whether prostatitis is infectious.
Most patients with prostatitis suffer from chronic prostatitis, which includes two types: bacterial prostatitis and non bacterial prostatitis. Let's have a specific understanding to see if it is infectious.
In clinical practice, the vast majority of chronic prostatitis is non bacterial prostatitis, while non bacterial prostatitis is non infectious. Bacterial prostatitis accounts for only about 5%, and most of them are common bacteria or conditional pathogens. Non bacterial prostatitis is a type of chronic inflammation that cannot be detected for pathogenic bacteria. Even if a bacterial infection is detected, the woman's vagina has a strong ability to resist foreign bacterial infections, so there is no need to worry about her wife being infected.
However, it should be noted that a small proportion of chronic prostatitis in clinical practice is caused by trichomonas or mold, or by gonococcal, mycoplasma, or chlamydia infections, which is known as clinically specific prostatitis. "For these infectious factors, there is a certain degree of infectivity in the early stages of the disease, so it is possible to transmit the infected bacteria to the woman during sexual life, causing specific vaginitis.".
Therefore, if our male friends find that they have corresponding symptoms of prostatitis, they should promptly go to a regular hospital for verification to determine their type of illness, so as not to transmit it to their wives. In addition, if you want to have sex without a specific diagnosis, you should also try to use condoms, not afraid of ten thousand just in case. If it is truly infectious, you can also try to avoid it in advance.
Prostatitis is a "pandemic" in modern life, which is very common and frequently occurring in our lives. However, in order to obtain better symptomatic treatment effects for any disease, it is necessary to first understand its etiology. Of course, the same is true for the treatment of prostatitis. Effective treatment of prostatitis must understand the etiology. Today, experts will bring you to specific understanding of relevant common knowledge.
Experts say that chronic prostatitis must be treated comprehensively and with multiple methods. "The prostate has an anatomical characteristic: there is a flexible envelope outside the gland, which is divided into three layers. The outer layer is rich in veins and loose connective tissue, the middle layer is a fibrous sheath, and the inner layer is a muscular layer.". The protective effect of such a capsule on the prostate is perfect, but it also has a significant "disadvantage": the veins are in the outer layer, and blood flow rarely enters the gland. If there is inflammation in the gland, oral or injection drugs are not easily absorbed into the gland, so single anti-inflammatory therapy often has poor effects.
Medical scientists have made various efforts to solve the "barrier" problem of this capsule, such as injecting drugs directly into the gland through the urethra or puncturing the perineum. "This has indeed improved the efficacy of infections caused by some pathogenic microorganisms, but in fact, many chronic prostatitis belong to the category of" aseptic inflammation ", that is, inflammation not caused by or mainly due to pathogen infection, so direct injection is meaningless.".
Therefore, a comprehensive treatment method combining traditional Chinese and Western medicine should be adopted to analyze the patients concretely and see what are the main contradictions in the etiology of prostatitis? On the one hand, using traditional Chinese medicine to regulate and replenish the body, fully mobilize the immune function of the body, and enhance the anti-inflammatory instinct, known as "strengthening the body"; On the other hand, antibacterial treatment and anti-inflammatory treatment aimed at the causes of infection, which is called "dispelling pathogenic factors", can greatly improve the therapeutic effect by combining attack and reinforcement, and treating according to symptoms and signs.
In addition, non drug treatment is also necessary, that is, during the treatment period, attention should be paid to avoiding drinking alcohol, eating spicy foods such as chilies, drinking more water, drinking about 2000 milliliters of water a day, exercising moderately, maintaining a smooth bowel movement, maintaining a comfortable mood, and having a regular and responsible sexual life.
Therefore, effective treatment of prostatitis also requires patients to be able to understand the cause of the disease and conduct comprehensive symptomatic treatment in order to achieve the best treatment effect. Finally, experts remind everyone that the occurrence of prostatitis is closely related to men's daily habits, so whether you currently have prostatitis or not, it is necessary to develop good habits in daily life, In this way, the harm caused by the presence of prostatitis can be avoided.
(Intern Editor: Cai Junyi)
