Post Date December, 03 2023
What is chronic prostatitis?
Chronic prostatitis, also known as chronic prostatitis like syndrome, is a group of pelvic syndromes. It includes chronic bacterial prostatitis, chronic non bacterial prostatitis, chronic pelvic pain syndrome, and asymptomatic prostatitis.
Chronic prostatitis is a common and frequently-occurring disease in urology and andrology, characterized clinically by changes in urination, chronic pelvic and pudendal pain, sexual dysfunction, infertility, and neuropsychological changes.
Chronic prostatitis is difficult to recover repeatedly, which seriously affects the physical and mental health of patients, and also brings a lot of burdens to families, businesses, and society. Therefore, chronic prostatitis is not only a purely medical problem, but also a serious social problem that deserves widespread attention.
What are the clinical manifestations of chronic prostatitis?
1) Pain or discomfort symptoms: The main symptoms include pain and discomfort in the perineum, testis, lower abdomen, lumbosacral region, to the back, anus, groin, penis, and glans, discomfort in the posterior urethra, perineum, and anus, heavy pressure, or feeling of fullness.
2) Urinary tract symptoms: urgency and frequency of urination, burning pain of urethra, endless urination, thousands of drops of urine, difficulty in urination or retention of urine.
3) Sexual and reproductive symptoms: ejaculation, premature ejaculation, hematospermia, ejaculation disorders, decreased libido, and infertility.
4) Mental symptoms: listlessness, depression, memory loss, decreased self-confidence, and heavy psychological burden.
How to prevent chronic prostatitis?
Chronic prostatitis is characterized by a long course of disease, multiple symptoms, difficult to cure, and easy to relapse, which can have a significant impact on the psychological and physical health of young and middle-aged patients. Therefore, it is particularly important to take positive and effective measures to prevent its occurrence. This requires close cooperation between doctors and patients, especially the self care of patients.
1) Cultivating good personal hygiene habits, paying attention to physical exercise at ordinary times, and enhancing the body's resistance to disease can prevent various pathogens from invading and causing disease.
2) Acute urinary and reproductive system infections, such as acute prostatitis, acute epididymitis, and acute seminal vesiculitis, should be actively and thoroughly treated to prevent their conversion to chronic prostatitis.
3) Timely treat infectious lesions in other parts of the body to reduce the chance of hematogenous infections, such as acute tonsillitis, treatment of sores, boils, dental caries, and urinary, intestinal, and respiratory tract infections. Once the infection in these areas is cured, the source of bacteria is eliminated.
4) Life should be regular, sexual life should be moderate, excessive sexual desire should be avoided, and attention should be paid to sexual and physical hygiene to prevent excessive hyperemia of the prostate and genital infection. Attention should be paid to personal care and hygiene.
