Inflammation of the prostate - prostatitis - is more and more common in men of childbearing age, that is, 20 to 50 years old. A few years ago, this disease was more often attributed to men over the age of 60. The reason for this change, of course, is the spread of factors depressing the body.
Thus, today this insidious disease has become a real problem in modern urology: patients, not knowing the consequences, prefer to remain silent about their poor health. However, this dizziness can lead to consequences as sad as irreversible infertility and inflammation of many organs.
Prostatitis occurs due to the appearance of a bacterial infection, the causative agents of which enter the prostate in different ways - ascending (through the urethra), descending (from the bladder), lymphogenous and hematogenous (due to inflammationother organs - sinusitis, anal fissures, hemorrhoids and even caries). However, in addition to the infection itself, there are a number of factors that trigger the mechanism of prostate inflammation.
Hypothermia, weakened immunity, hormonal disorders, damage to the urinary tract, sexually transmitted diseases, irregular sex life, a passive lifestyle all contribute to the development of the disease. There are two types of prostatitis - acute and chronic, each of which requires both general and individual treatment approaches.
Processing
Treatment of the disease is reduced to the elimination of a stagnant or inflammatory process in the prostate. But in order to finally treat this disease, you must first exclude the cause of its occurrence, and then treat the disease itself.
Diagnosis - a smear from the urethra to calculate whether there are viruses, protozoa or bacteria in the gland. If necessary, antibacterial therapy (antibiotic treatment) will be necessary for a bacterial infection and for the viral etiology, preparations of interferon or gamma globulin. Depending on the degree of the lesion, it is determined how long this stage of treatment will last.
Medicines - you can't do without them
First you need to make sure that the process is infectious in nature. If so, drugs from this category are needed. Plus, they're almost always prescribed for chronic prostatitis, even if no obvious signs of infection are found.
The best option would be to first take a swab from the urethra and examine it for the bacteria's sensitivity to antibiotics - this will allow the most effective drug to be chosen.
Antibiotic therapy is carried out with a group of fluoroquinolone antibiotics. This is due to the fact that this type of antibiotics penetrates well into the tissues of the prostate, unlike the antibiotics of the penicillin, cephalosporin and macrolide series.
Antibiotic therapy can take a long time - up to three months. However, do not forget that the indiscriminate use of antibiotics did not bring any benefit to anyone - be sure to consult a specialist so that he can tell you what medicine you need.
Note to the patient - many drugs in this category have a depressive effect on the sperm, but only during treatment! There is no need to worry about this - after a few months the ability of sperm to fertilize is fully restored.
Along with antibiotics, it is advisable to prescribe antifungal drugs, since antibiotics act only on bacteria, and against the background of reduced immunity, a predisposition to mycotic (i. e. fungal) diseases appears.
It is also possible to prescribe alpha blockers, which suppress pain and relieve spasms of the gland, relaxing the smooth muscles of the bladder neck and prostate.
Along with antibiotic therapy, a man is prescribed prostate massage - the procedure is quite uncomfortable and painful, but absolutely necessary to cure prostatitis. In addition, the doctor will prescribe fortifying drugs that dissolve stagnant processes and increase the body's immunity.
The patient himself will have to do a lot - in order for the treatment to pass faster, to ensure a better blood supply, the patient should lead an active lifestyle - move more, sit or lie down less.
For an effective and comprehensive treatment of prostatitis, a man will probably be prescribed in addition to drugs that contain natural and natural ingredients. These drugs significantly improve the prognosis of treatment.
We repeat - taking these drugs does not exclude all of the above treatment steps, but only supplements them. In no case can you replace taking an antibiotic with a herbal tincture - they have completely different directions of action. Let's take a look at the most common herbal remedies for prostatitis.
In the modern pharmaceutical market, drugs for chronic and acute forms of prostatitis are very widely represented. However, it should be remembered that the choice of drugs is a purely individual matter, and before you start taking any medication on your own, you should consult a urologist. Indeed, self-medication can sometimes do much more harm than good.
Carelessness is the enemy of health
What will happen if the disease runs its course? If a man is "lucky" to have an acute form of prostatitis, it is extremely important to see a doctor at the first symptoms - this will help to cope with the disease much faster and more effectively.
If the pathology continues into the chronic stage, long-term remissions are possible, during which the patient will temporarily cease to be bothered by pain in the groin when urinating, the body temperature will not differ much from normal, lThe man may decide that his sexual function has recovered as well.
However, during this "deceptive euphoria" the inflammatory process, which begins in the prostate, penetrates deeper and deeper into all human organs. In addition, remissions are replaced by acute exacerbations, the symptoms of which are much brighter than the previous ones.
Neglect of their own health can lead to many unpleasant complications - abscess, loss of potency, infertility. In addition, infertility in the advanced stages of inflammation of the prostate can rarely be treated.
Warning! Don't try to self-medicate. A medical consultation and an examination at the clinic are required.