The vilest disease for men is not a heart attack or a stroke, but prostatitis. You just can't do the most common thing normally: go to the bathroom. When you try to urinate, everything hurts, the urine comes out drop by drop, which forces you to spend a lot of time in the bathroom and you find yourself back in just five minutes. And also groin cramps, fever and chills. . . Pretty nice.
To understand how to prevent the development of the disease and what prostatitis prevention exists, we talked to experts in this field.
How to start prostatitis prevention
Protect yourself from infections
The main cause of prostatitis is infection. Therefore, it is very important to prevent microbes from entering the prostate.
Two types of microbes can enter the prostate:
- agents causing venereal diseases;
- coli.
In the first case, the prevention of prostatitis is understandable. No matter how beautiful the girl is and no matter how much she wants her, without a condom, no, no! And it will not only protect from prostatitis, if that.
In the second case, E. coli can get into your precious penis both with dirty hands that are not washed after bathing, and during anal sex without a condom. Yes, even with my wife. Therefore, hygiene is everything! Wash your hands, wash your dick, use a condom.
don't get cold
Due to hypothermia, immunity falls, and blood stagnates in the pelvic organs. The same E. coli that is normally present in our bodies can multiply rapidly and get into the wrong place if frozen. Stagnant blood causes inflammation of the organs, including the prostate. As a result, the urine worsens and it is easier for microbes to attach and multiply.
- To prevent prostatitis, it is important to avoid the main risk factors. It is important not to cool too much and soberly assess its strength during hardening. With acute hypothermia, the body may not be able to resist infections, which it has successfully dealt with before, experts explain.
Move more!
Nowadays, when most of the work time we sit in the office, then go sit in the car, and then take a comfortable position on our favorite sofa, the body lacks movement catastrophically! There is no movement - blood stagnation begins, the pelvic organs are compressed and function worse.
"The best prevention of prostatitis is to lead as active a lifestyle as possible, " experts advise. Walk to lunch, warm up in the office after long meetings, and while writing reports, take the stairs instead of the elevator. Take every opportunity to walk!
have sex regularly
Regular sex is an excellent prevention of prostatitis. It is the key to the long-term proper functioning of the prostate gland. During sexual intercourse, blood circulation is powerfully increased, metabolic processes are better. Once again, the prostate actively secretes its juice, which is the liquid part of semen. There is no stagnation and therefore no chance for the infection to take hold. Masturbation in this regard is worse, with it there are no active movements of the pelvis, and there is no such powerful increase in blood circulation.
But remember about safety, sexually transmitted infections. Protect yourself!
do not abuse alcohol
First, alcohol itself weakens the immune system and makes it harder for the body to fight off infections. Secondly, alcohol dilates the blood vessels, and this leads to various stagnation and edema, which we have already talked about. Thirdly, drunk you can do feats. And there is already unprotected sex not far from an unknown woman and falling asleep in an incomprehensible place on a cold floor.
Treat chronic diseases
With hypothermia or a large amount of drunk alcohol, the infection can enter the prostate and other organs from internal foci of infection. For example, from decayed teeth. The focus can also be untreated chronic sinusitis, sinusitis, otitis media, bronchitis, or sore throat. It would seem, where is the throat and where is the prostate, but here. Therefore, for the prevention of prostatitis and other diseases, it is imperative to treat foci of chronic infection.
medications for prostatitis
For treatment, a wide range of drugs for prostatitis is used:
- antibiotics, since the main cause of prostatitis is an infection, it is treated first;
- anti-inflammatories and analgesics (scientifically "non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs"), these drugs reduce the temperature during acute prostatitis, relieve pain and inflammation of the prostate;
- alpha blockers - drugs that relax the prostate gland and improve the passage of urine; due to inflammation, the prostate increases in size, presses on the urethra and does not allow urine to flow out normally;
- vitamins and dietary supplements, enhance the restoration of normal prostate function after infection is overcome and inflammation is relieved.
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Folk remedies for prostatitis.
The most popular folk remedy for prostatitis is propolis. It is recommended to use it both in the form of candles and in the form of tincture. Propolis is said to have a slight anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial effect, but the key word is small! Neither to overcome the infection that causes prostatitis, nor to relieve inflammation, in which hellish pain and a temperature of 40 degrees, of course, propolis will not be able.
Another popular folk remedy for prostatitis is pumpkin seeds. Tie - and order. But in fact, you need to understand that pumpkin seeds act only on certain types of worms. And then they do not kill them, but simply cause discomfort, from which the worms can begin to leave a person. Since worms do not cause prostatitis, there is no point in treating with pumpkin seeds.
Many use burdock root to treat prostatitis. Burdock has a diuretic and healing effect, and also contains a lot of inulin, which is useful for diabetes. There are no wounds as such with prostatitis and therefore there is nothing special to treat. But the diuretic effect will give you torture. Imagine: you already have urine unable to pass through the urethra compressed by the prostate, and it increases the pressure even more, increasing your pain and the frequency of going to the bathroom. You need it?
In folk medicine, for the treatment of prostatitis, it is also recommended to use a decoction of a bear (red) root. The main effect of its use is anti-inflammatory. But it is rather weak to lower temperature and pain. Also, bear root does not fight infection in any way.
"Our people are so severe that they can be treated with anything, " he says.urologist sergey kotov. - At the heart of all drugs now advertised and sold as dietary supplements are plant-based components. They have mild anti-inflammatory and antibacterial efficacy. But as the sole treatment for prostatitis, they are too weak, as they have extremely low efficacy. I can't recommend anything. The main problem of traditional medicine is the waste of time and the late start of normal treatment.
Bath for prostatitis
- The most effective popular way to treat prostatitis is a bath! says the urologist. - Warm up, alternating hot and cold can be helpful. But it is important to remember that bathing is contraindicated for people who have problems with the heart and blood vessels. A very important point! In patients over 50 years of age, it is necessary to be 100% sure that it is prostatitis and not prostate cancer. Because the symptoms of chronic prostatitis are the same as those of adenoma and prostate cancer. And it is important not to waste time trying to cure the wrong disease. The procedure is as follows: first we exclude oncology, then we treat prostatitis.
You can go to the bath or sauna for prostatitis treatment only if you feel good! Do not walk immediately after eating or while intoxicated. You can't walk with acute prostatitis when you have a fever! Only after the normalization of health to consolidate the treatment and prevention of prostatitis.
It is better not to overheat in a bath or sauna, walk for pleasure, and not for the sake of endurance records. We go into the steam room for 15-20 minutes, warm up and go out to rest for 30-40 minutes. Then you can reheat. It is better not to climb in the snow or in an ice pool; otherwise, you can get a new wave of hypothermic prostatitis!
Home exercises for prostatitis.
- Now there are many exercises for the prevention of prostatitis on the Internet. But, for the most part, it's all marketing and advertising, says the doctor. - Walking, squatting and climbing stairs DAILY on a regular basis will bring much more benefits! It's clearly not a hunt, but you force yourself to be at least minimally active. And a regular sex life!
If you have an office job, for example, nothing prevents you from going to the dining room during your lunch hour not by elevator, but by walking several floors. Did you sit for 2 hours in a meeting? Then go out into the hall and do a few squats. In general, squats are the same exercise that spreads blood well in the pelvis and fights stagnation.
After work, we come home - leave the car in the yard and go to the store on foot, and do not drive to it on the highway. Take the stairs to your floor, not the elevator. If you live very high up, take the elevator part of the way and walk part of the way.
"You need to exercise regularly, " she advises.urologist sergey kotov. - No registration needed, but walking for 40 minutes a day or fitness classes 2-3 times a week with lower body exercises will help. Bicycling, walking, squatting, bending over, swimming are very good home exercises for prostatitis.
Remember the main exercises for the prevention of prostatitis:
- walking;
- squats;
- forward curves;
- move your legs;
- lying leg raises;
- Climb the stairs;
- cycling;
- swimming.