Post Date December, 03 2023
Many middle-aged men often have their first reaction when they feel pain in their prostate, urgency of urination, and other conditions. However, it is unexpected that the pain in their prostate may also be due to prostate hyperplasia. "Then take medication without authorization for treatment, but it has not been effective for a long time, and may even lead to other complications.". So, how to distinguish between prostatitis and benign prostatic hyperplasia?
The main symptoms of prostatitis
Pain: The main manifestation is pain or discomfort in the bladder, pubic bone, or perineal region of the lower abdomen in patients with prostatitis. Some patients experience suffocation, while others experience discomfort or tenderness in the testicles.
Sexual dysfunction: Different patients with prostatitis have different changes in sexual function, with varying degrees. However, the main manifestations are mainly manifested in two aspects: decreased libido or even lack of sexual desire, and decreased erectile function, with some patients even unable to have an erection at all.
General discomfort: Generally manifested as sudden fever, chills, fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea, and vomiting. When a sudden onset occurs, systemic symptoms can mask local symptoms. In addition, there are also significant irritation symptoms in the urinary system, such as frequent urination, urgency, burning pain in the urethra, dripping urine, and purulent urethral secretions.
Symptoms of prostatic hyperplasia
Frequency of urination: Increasing the frequency of nocturnal urination is more clinically significant. Generally speaking, the number of nocturnal urinations is often parallel to the severity of prostate hypertrophy. Elderly people who previously did not wake up at night experienced 1 to 2 times of urination at night, often reflecting the onset of early obstruction.
Urinary retention: In the late stage of patients with severe prostatic hypertrophy, acute urinary retention may occur due to the inability to excrete urine due to cold, drinking, holding urine for too long or infection.
Hematuria: Vascular dilation or even rupture of the mucosal surface, resulting in bleeding, manifested as hematuria.
In terms of symptoms, there are also differences between the two diseases.
Patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) do not have a feeling of bloating or painful urination during urination. More often, patients with BPH are characterized by frequent urination, urgency, incontinence, and increased nocturia; In patients with prostatitis, there is a sensation of pain in urination, a marked feeling of bloating in the lower abdomen, and sometimes accompanied by local radiation pain, such as low back pain, thigh root pain, and so on.
The editor reminds that prostatitis and benign prostatic hyperplasia, if not treated promptly, can further aggravate hydronephrosis, renal insufficiency, and even develop into renal failure that endangers life. Patients also need to have good living habits, moderate sexual activity, neither indulgence nor abstinence, and maintain their own cleanliness.
What dietary recommendations are available for the treatment of acute prostatitis
1. Prostatitis patients should eat more light and nutritious food, drink more milk, eat more vegetables, and eat a variety of fruits. Eating more fruits can prevent constipation, ensure smooth defecation, and avoid bladder and prostate compression. If the stool is dry, it can easily exacerbate prostate discomfort.
2. Eat more foods that contain zinc. Prostate fluid contains a certain amount of antibacterial ingredients. This substance is a protein, and its main component is zinc. Therefore, appropriate zinc supplementation can improve the antibacterial ability of the human body. Foods that contain more zinc include pumpkin seeds, carrots, spinach, mushrooms, cashew nuts, seafood, and other foods.
In addition, the preferred fruit for zinc supplementation is apples, which not only contain zinc, but also have the functions of preventing hyperlipidemia, stroke, and colon cancer. In addition, all seeds and nuts are rich in zinc.
3. Eat more fruits and vegetables that can diuresis, such as strawberries, chestnuts, walnuts, and other foods. Eating more of them can alleviate symptoms such as frequent urination and nocturnal incontinence. Pay attention to supplementing foods that have the effects of tonifying the kidney, promoting yang, and diuresis, such as carp, tremella, and wolfberry.
4. Patients with prostatitis are suitable for eating light, rich in oil and water foods, such as drinking more soup. Drink plenty of water, about 1500 milliliters of water per day.
Nowadays, young men have many bad behavior habits, which often lead to acute prostatitis. To prevent this disease, it is necessary to pay more attention to the maintenance of the prostate and eat more healthy food for the prostate every day.
