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Prostatitis
Prostate problems are common in men.
Most of these problems can be successfully treated with a help of urologists. They are specialized
in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions involving the prostate gland.
What the prostatitis is?
Prostatitis is an inflammation of the prostate gland. When this part of your body is inflamed, it is red,
hot and sore.
Sometimes it is caused by a sexually transmitted organism, such as chlamydia. Most cases have nothing
in common with sexual activity, they are caused by infections. These infections can't be passed on to sexual
partners.
Forms of prostatitis
There are four form of this disease:
- Acute prostatitis (bacterial) It is relatively easy to diagnose due to its symptoms that
suggest infection. Men developing this disease often have fever, chills, pain in the genital area and lowr back,
burning or painful urination, urinary frequency and urgency often at night,
- Chronic bacterial prostatitis If it is relatively poorly penetrated by antibiotics, prostatitis
can become chronic. The pain symptoms come to the foreground.
- Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome It may be inflammatory or noninflammatory.
In the inflammatory form, semen, urine, and other fluids from the prostate show no symptom of a known infecting organism.
In the noninflammatory form, no sign of inflammation is present. This is a common but quite ununderstood form of the
prostatites. It is found in men of any age; symptoms go away and then return without warning.
- Asymptomatic inflammatory prostatitis No pain or discomfort having this disease, but there are white
blood cells in the semen. Usually this form of prostatitis is found by doctors when looking for causes of male
infertility or testing for prostate cancer.
Who gets prostatitis?
This disease is one of the most common urologic diagnoses, as it is a much broader health problem than was once considered
Many men experience this disease excepting children.
Prostatitis is diagnosed checking for possible infection or urinary tract disorders. It may be also diagnosed by DRE (digital rectal examination)
Prostatitis treatment
First of all your doctor may suggest some lifestyle changes as diet, stress management.
Additionally,
- acute and chronic bacterial forms are treated with antibiotics.
- nonbacterial prostatitis are treated with medications reducing the difficulty in urination or anti-inflammatory drugs for pain.
NOTE: The Information on this site is provided for information only, and is not meant to substitute for
the advice of your own physician or other medical professional.
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