The worst disease for men is not a heart attack or stroke, but prostatitis. You just can't do the most ordinary thing normally - go to the toilet. When you try to urinate, everything hurts, urine comes out drop by drop, forces you to hang around the bathroom for a long time and run back in just five minutes. And also cramps in the groin, fever and chills . . . Pleasant enough.
To understand how to prevent the development of the disease and what is the prevention of prostatitis, 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 get into the prostate:
- pathogens of 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 to be without a condom - no, no! And not only protects against prostatitis, if at all.
In the second case, E. coli can get on your precious penis both through dirty hands that are not washed after the toilet, and during anal sex without a condom. Yes, even with my wife. So hygiene is everything! Wash your hands, wash your cock, use a condom.
Don't get cold
Due to hypothermia, immunity decreases, and blood stagnates in the pelvic organs. The same E. coli that normally live in our bodies can multiply quickly and end up in the wrong place when they freeze. Stagnant blood causes organs to swell, including the prostate. As a result, urine becomes worse and it is easier for microbes to attach and multiply.
- In order to prevent prostatitis, it is important to avoid the main risk factors. It is important not to overcool during hardening and to assess its strength soberly. With severe hypothermia, the body may not be able to resist infections that it previously successfully coped with, experts explain.
Move more!
Nowadays, when we sit in the office for most of our working hours, then get around sitting in the car, and then settle into a comfortable position on our favorite sofa, the body is catastrophically lacking in movement! There is no movement - blood stagnation begins, the pelvic organs are compressed and work worse.
"The best way to prevent prostatitis is to be as active as possible, " experts advise. Walk to lunch, warm up after long office meetings, and when writing reports, take the stairs instead of the elevator. Take every opportunity toHike!
Have sex regularly
Regular sex is an excellent prevention of prostatitis. It is the key to good long-term functioning of the prostate. During sex, blood circulation is greatly increased, metabolic processes improve. Again, the prostate is actively secreting its juice, which is the liquid part of semen. No standstill and therefore no chance for the infection to gain a foothold. Masturbation is worse in this regard, there are no active movements of the pelvis and there is not such a strong increase in blood flow.
But think about safety, sexually transmitted infections. Protect yourself!
Do not abuse alcohol
First, alcohol itself weakens the immune system, making it harder for the body to fight infection. Secondly, alcohol dilates blood vessels, which leads to various stagnation and edema, which we have already talked about. Third, you can perform drunk. And already unprotected sex is not far from an unfamiliar woman and fell asleep in an incomprehensible place on a cold floor.
Treat chronic diseases
With hypothermia or a large amount of alcohol, the infection can get into the prostate and other organs from internal foci of infection. For example from carious teeth. The focus can also be an untreated chronic sinus infection, sinus infection, middle ear infection, bronchitis or sore throat. It seems where is the neck and where is the prostate, but here. Therefore, for the prevention of prostatitis and other diseases, it is imperative to treat chronic foci of infection.
Drugs for prostatitis
For treatment, a whole range of drugs for prostatitis is used:
- Antibiotics, since the main cause of prostatitis is infection, it is treated first;
- anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs (scientifically "nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs"), these drugs lower the temperature during acute prostatitis, relieve pain and inflammation of the prostate;
- alpha blockers - drugs that relax the prostate and improve urinary flow; due to inflammation, the prostate is enlarged, presses on the urethra and does not allow urine to pass normally;
- Vitamins and supplements enhance the recovery of normal prostate function after infection is defeated and inflammation is reduced.
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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 mild anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial effects, but the key word is small! Neither to overcome the infection that causes prostatitis, nor to relieve inflammation, where hellish pain and a temperature of 40 degrees, of course, propolis cannot.
Another popular folk remedy for prostatitis is pumpkin seeds. Ate - and the 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 worms can crawl out of a person. Since worms do not cause prostatitis, treatment with pumpkin seeds is pointless.
Many use burdock root to treat prostatitis. Burdock has a diuretic and wound-healing effect, in addition, it contains a lot of inulin, which is useful in diabetes. There are no wounds as such in prostatitis, and therefore there is nothing special to treat. But the diuretic effect will torment you. Imagine you already have urine that can't break through the urethra compressed by the prostate, and you increase the pressure even more, increasing your pain and frequency of going to the toilet. Do you need it?
In folk medicine, to treat prostatitis, it is also recommended to use a decoction of a bear root (red). The main effect of its use is anti-inflammatory. But it is rather weak to lower the temperature and pain. Also, bear root does not fight the infection in any way.
"Our people are so strict that they can be treated to anything, " she saysUrologist Sergey Kotov. - Plant components are at the heart of all medicines advertised and sold as dietary supplements today. They have a mild anti-inflammatory and antibacterial effect. But as the only treatment for prostatitis, they are too weak, as they have extremely low efficiency. I can't recommend anything. The main problem of traditional medicine is the loss of time and the late start of normal treatment.
Bath for prostatitis
- The most effective way to treat prostatitis is a bath! says the urologist. - Warming up, alternating heat and cold can be helpful. However, it is important to remember that the bath is contraindicated for people with heart and blood vessel problems. A very important point! For patients over the age of 50, you need to be 100% sure that it is prostatitis and not prostate cancer. Because the symptoms of chronic prostatitis are the same as those of an adenoma and prostate cancer. And it's important not to waste time trying to cure the wrong disease. The procedure is as follows: first we exclude oncology, then we treat prostatitis.
To treat prostatitis, you should only go to the bath or sauna if you feel well! Do not leave immediately after eating or when intoxicated. You can't walk with acute prostatitis if 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, go for pleasure, and not for endurance records. We went to the steam room for 15-20 minutes, warmed up - rested for 30-40 minutes. Then you can come back to warm up. It is better not to climb into the snow or an ice pool - otherwise you can get a new wave of prostatitis from hypothermia!
Home exercises for prostatitis
- There are now many exercises for the prevention of prostatitis on the Internet. But for the most part it's all marketing and advertising, - says the doctor. - Regular EVERYDAY walking, squatting and stair climbing brings much more benefits! It is clear that it is not a hunt, but one forces oneself to be at least minimally active. And a regular sex life!
For example, if you have an office job, nothing prevents you from going up several floors to the dining room instead of taking the elevator during your lunch break. Sat in a meeting for 2 hours? After that, go to the corridor and do some squats. In general, squats are exactly the exercise that distributes blood well in the pelvis and fights stagnation.
After work, we got home - leave the car in the yard and go to the store on foot, and do not drive in on the street. Take the stairs to your floor, not the elevator. If you live very high, take the elevator part of the way and walk part of the way.
"You need to exercise regularly, " he advises.Urologist Sergey Kotov. - Keeping records is not required, but walking for 40 minutes a day or fitness classes with lower body exercises 2-3 times a week will help. Cycling, walking, squatting, bending over, swimming are very good home exercises for prostatitis.
Remember the main exercises for the prevention of prostatitis:
- walk;
- squats;
- forward bends;
- swing your legs;
- lying leg raises;
- go up the stairs;
- To go biking;
- Bathe.