Men love wine, which is a common phenomenon. It is difficult to judge the merits and demerits of wine in human history. Most people have drunk wine, but I'm afraid I can't tell the taste of it. Anyway, prostatitis patients should drink less.
Why should prostatitis patients avoid alcohol
As a part of spiritual and material life, wine is hard to give up. Drinking has a positive effect on health. Many celebrities have left good stories related to wine, such as "Li Bai Dou Jiu Shi Bai", which is the exciting effect of wine; For example, "Dukang is the only solution to worry", which is the anesthetic effect of alcohol.
So, what are the negative effects of drinking on the human body, especially on patients with prostatitis? The main component of wine is ethanol, which is not indispensable to human body.
The alcohol after drinking is quickly absorbed by the stomach, 90% - 98% of which is oxidized in the body, and only 1% - 2% of the alcohol is discharged from the body without oxidation. When drinking a lot of alcohol, the alcohol discharged without oxidation can be increased to 10%.
The physical and functional decline of the elderly is an inevitable phenomenon, and the slowing down of the metabolic process is also inevitable. The ability to decompose ethanol is also reduced, and the main way to excrete ethanol is the kidney. Therefore, a large number of drinkers and the elderly drink alcohol, undoubtedly increasing the burden on the kidney and damaging the kidney function.
Decreased contractile function of bladder muscle can cause dysuria, which is also one of the reasons for causing and aggravating urination after drinking. For those with edema, drinking alcohol will aggravate the edema. Long-term excessive drinking can also damage liver function and form fatty liver, alcoholic liver and other diseases.
Ethanol has a strong irritant. After entering the human body, it can accelerate the blood circulation of the viscera and expand the blood vessels, especially the visceral blood vessels. When suffering from acute prostatitis, alcohol should be avoided to avoid the spread of inflammation and other chain reactions.
People suffering from chronic prostatitis and hypertrophy of the prostate are also harmful to drink a lot of alcohol, because alcohol can damage the immune system in the body, such as the lack of vitamins in the body, which will reduce the defense function of the respiratory tract, damage the liver and kidney, cause anemia, etc., make bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms take the opportunity to invade, and promote infection and relapse of old diseases.
Many studies have shown that drinking alcohol is harmful to sexual function. Ethanol is a kind of gonadal toxin. Drinking too much alcohol for a long time can not only cause chronic poisoning of the nervous system, but also cause gonadal poisoning.
The main performance of men is that the level of testosterone in the blood drops, damaging the interstitial cells of the testis, making it unable to produce androgens and sperm normally, and seriously affecting the activities of the three enzymes that can synthesize testosterone in the body.