Prevention of prostatitis
Content:
- Forms of inflammation of the prostate gland
- Complaints with prostatitis
- Causes of prostatitis
- Prevention of prostatitis
- How else to prevent the development of prostatitis?
Doctors say that prostatitis is a complex inflammatory process of the prostate gland. Today this disease is very common among men between twenty and fifty years of age. According to statistics, this disease affects after 30 years - 30%, after 40 - 40%, and so on.
The prostate is the prostate gland, which is part of the male reproductive system. It produces a characteristic secret, consisting of hormones, fats, proteins, carbohydrates, which contributes to the nutrition and protection of sperm. The gland is located directly under the bladder.
Forms of inflammation of the prostate gland
In medicine, several forms of prostatitis are distinguished:
- Sharp sight,
- Chronic form,
- Asymptomatic inflammation.
Inflammation of the gland can pass imperceptibly and painlessly, but in most cases, characteristic symptoms are observed.
Complaints with prostatitis
Most often, with this disease, patients complain of:
- Disorders associated with urination (narrowing of the urinary tract)
- Intermittent urination
- Frequent urination at any time of the day
- Urination in small portions or drops
- Feeling like the bladder is not empty
- Urgent urge to urinate
- The inability to hold on to the urge,
- Unpleasant or painful sensations in the lower abdomen, groin area.
Painful sensations may indicate other diseases of the reproductive system, for example, prostate adenoma (benign hyperplasia). There are cases of the development of cancers of this gland. Therefore, doctors recommend that men who have reached the mark of fifty years or more have annual prostate-specific antigen (PSA) tests.
Causes of prostatitis
- Sexually transmitted infections (STIs);
- Passive lifestyle (professions of a driver, office staff)
- Regular hypothermia (most often observed in people involved in extreme sports);
- Serious physical and psychological stress;
- Impaired blood circulation in the pelvic region;
- Long-term sexual abstinence.
Prevention of prostatitis
Prevention of this unpleasant disease consists in the correct organization of your life in order to exclude the possibility of the development of the disease from it. Experts note that if you follow simple and effective rules and recommendations, you can protect yourself from the development of prostatitis.
What should be done to prevent prostatitis:
1. Increase physical activity. A healthy and active lifestyle should be maintained to avoid poor circulation in the pelvic region. Urologists believe that running and walking, dancing and swimming, volleyball and football, basketball and tennis, light fitness are very useful and have a beneficial effect on men's health. It can be aggravated by: strength training (powerlifting, bodybuilding), cycling (due to modern narrow saddles) and a sedentary lifestyle (drivers, office workers).
For people with sedentary work, it is advisable to do a "physical education" consisting of walking, bending, jumping, squatting. Being overweight is also detrimental.
2. A prerequisite is adherence to a diet, which means limiting yourself to spicy, fatty, salty, smoked, fried, pickled foods. Food should contain a large amount of vitamins and minerals that normalize bowel function and prevent constipation and hemorrhoids. As a preventive measure, it is advisable to consume enough drinking water and not to abuse alcohol (especially beer) and nicotine, which is extremely harmful to men's health.
Doctors note that the oils found in nuts, pumpkin seeds and seafood are very beneficial for the prostate. In the daily diet, you can include the use of buckwheat, oatmeal, pearl barley porridge, dairy products, and as much fruit as possible.
3. Do not forget that prostatitis can provoke STIs (sexually transmitted infections), therefore, during sexual intercourse, it is imperative to protect yourself. If there is frequent or difficult urination, pain in the perineal region, impaired erectile function, premature ejaculation, you should immediately consult a specialist doctor for further examinations.
4. And, of course, it is required to have a regular sex life to support and prevent stagnant processes and stable blood supply to the prostate gland. The norm for middle-aged people is considered to be intercourse two to three times a week, but not more than one per day. Interrupted intercourse and frequent partner changes are also harmful to men's health.
How else to prevent the development of prostatitis?
To be calm about your masculine strength, you should visit a urologist at least once a year, even in the absence of any symptoms of the disease. This is especially true for those men who abuse spicy and smoked food, have rectal diseases, suffer from constipation, and lead a sedentary lifestyle. If the patient has a history of sexually transmitted diseases, then visiting a doctor should become a habit.
More often than not, men do not pretend when something hurts them, but it happens that they press so hard that you involuntarily go to the hospital. It is then that it turns out that prostatitis has already taken a chronic course. It will have to be treated for at least 1-2 months, but without guarantees of re-inflammation. Acute prostatitis is easily administered with drug treatment.
Author of the article: Lebedev Andrey Sergeevich | Urologist
Education: Diploma in the specialty "Andrology" received after completing residency at the Department of Endoscopic Urology of the Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education in the urological center of the Central Clinical Hospital No. 1 of JSC Russian Railways (2007). Postgraduate studies were completed here by 2010.
