Post Date December, 02 2023
Men often care about their prostate health issues, and various male health media are also advocating that men should take care of their prostate gland. Indeed, the importance of prostate to men is self-evident. In recent years, with the increase of men's living habits, the incidence rate of prostate diseases has increased year by year. But for men, do you know the characteristics of the prostate at different ages? Let's take a look at the lifetime evolution of the prostate gland.
Happy "childhood"
In early childhood, the prostate gland of the human body does not assign any work to it, except for "eating, drinking," or "sleeping.". In childhood, with the development of the human testis, the synthesized androgens are continuously supplied to the prostate gland, making it grow year by year. When the human body reaches puberty, the prostate gland also grows into an "adult" physique, weighing up to 20 grams, and having a height of 3 centimeters. In adolescence, if there is a lack of androgen nutrition, the prostate gland will remain immature for a lifetime.
In early childhood, the prostate rarely causes disease. When the "love affair begins," diseases will come to you. Juveniles who suffer from excessive foreskin often experience foreskin balanitis, urethritis, and other infections. Bacteria from these sites can invade the prostate from the open ejaculatory ducts, causing prostatitis. According to andrology experts, the minimum age for prostatitis is 12 years old. Of course, the effective way to prevent juvenile prostatitis is to remove the redundant foreskin as soon as possible.
The hard working "young and middle-aged"
The prostate gland during the "youth" period is industrious and busy. At this point, the prostate starts a "trial run", producing a small amount of prostate fluid to provide motility energy for sperm. When a person is married, the work of the prostate appears busy, producing prostate fluid day and night to ensure a continuous flow of sperm.
This period is a "troubled autumn" for the prostate gland. At this time, if the human body's sexual activity is too frequent, it will cause the prostate gland to be overloaded for a long time, resulting in physical and mental fatigue, decreased resistance, and easily lead to bacterial damage. Because the prostate communicates with the human urethra through the ejaculatory tube, due to frequent sexual activity, the ejaculatory tube is often open, and pathogenic bacteria in the urethra can retrograde and invade the prostate and grow, causing prostatitis. "If a person has a" history of sexual activity, "the prostate will also suffer from gonococcal, chlamydia, mycoplasma, and other sexually transmitted bacteria, causing sexually transmitted prostatitis;"; Tuberculosis bacteria from other parts of the body can also take the opportunity to visit the prostate, causing tuberculous prostatitis. Occasionally, there are pinworms parasitic on the prostate, causing pinworm prostatitis. After the inflammatory destruction of the current columnar glands, it can first lead to decreased semen quality, reduced fertility, and even infertility in some people. At the same time, chronic inflammation often causes abnormalities in human sexual function, such as impotence and premature ejaculation.
Sick "old age"
After the age of 50-60, the prostate gland is "aging" and gradually becoming "fat". After aging, sexual activity gradually decreases, the workload of the prostate gradually decreases, and its functional cells begin to atrophy. Due to the disorder of hormone levels in the elderly, abnormal hyperplasia occurs in non functional cells at the edge of the prostate, which increases the volume of the prostate and compresses the urethra, causing frequent urination, urgency, increased frequency of urination at night, thinner urinary lines, and difficulty in urinating. In medicine, this abnormally enlarged prostate is called benign prostatic hyperplasia. The enlarged prostate is like a mountain, blocking the outflow of urine, which can cause urinary retention, hydronephrosis, even kidney failure, uremia and endanger life.
Expert warm reminder: The prostate is one of the necessary organs for men to have sex. The above is an introduction to the evolution of the prostate at different ages of men. Men may wish to understand the characteristics of their prostate gland at different ages, so that prostate health care is not blind and targeted.
