The vilest disease for men is not a heart attack or stroke, but prostatitis. You just can't do the most common thing normally - go to the bathroom. When you try to urinate, everything hurts, urine comes out drop by drop, forcing you to stay in the bathroom for a long time and run to it again in just five minutes. Also groin cramps, 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 enter the prostate:
- agents causing venereal diseases;
- coli.
In the first case, the prevention of prostatitis is understandable. No matter how pretty the girl is and no matter how much she wants to, without a condom - no, no! And not only from prostatitis will protect, if that.
In the second case, E. coli can enter your precious penis either through dirty hands that are not washed after the bathroom, or during anal sex without a condom. Yes, even with my wife. So hygiene is everything! Wash your hands, wash your dick, use a condom.
don't get cold
Due to hypothermia, immunity drops and blood stagnates in Organs pelvic organs. The same E. coli that are normally present in our bodies can multiply quickly and get into the wrong place if they freeze. Stagnant blood causes swelling of 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 over-cool 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!
These days, when most of our work time is spent sitting in the office, then sitting in the car, and then taking a comfortable position on our favorite couch, the body lacks movement catastrophically! There is no movement - blood stagnation begins, pelvic organs are compressed and function worse.
"The best prevention of prostatitis is to lead as active a lifestyle as possible, " advise experts. Walk to lunch, warm up in the office after long meetings, and while writing reports, take the stairs instead of taking the elevator. Use every opportunity to walk!
have sex regularly
Regular sex is an excellent prevention of prostatitis. It is the key to good long-term prostate work. During sex, blood circulation is greatly increased, metabolic processes are better. Again, the prostate is actively secreting its juice, which is the liquid part of semen. No stagnation and therefore no chance for the infection to take hold. Masturbation in this respect is worse, with it there is no active movement of the pelvis and there is not such a powerful increase in blood circulation.
But remember about safety, sexually transmitted infections. Take cover!
Don't abuse alcohol
First, alcohol itself lowers the immune system and makes it harder for the body to fight infections. Secondly, alcohol dilates blood vessels, and this leads to various stagnations and edemas, which we have already talked about. Thirdly, from drunk you can do stunts. And there is even 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 ingested alcohol, the infection can enter the prostate and other organs from internal foci of infection. For example, decayed teeth. The focus can also be untreated chronic sinusitis, sinusitis, otitis media, bronchitis, or sore throat. It seems, 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 whole range of drugs for prostatitis are 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 and improve the passage of urine; due to inflammation, the prostate increases in size, presses on the urethra and does not allow urine to come out normally;
- vitamins and dietary supplements, they enhance the restoration of normal prostate function after the infection is defeated 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 mild anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial effect, but the keyword is small! Neither to overcome the infection that causes prostatitis, nor to relieve inflammation, in which the infernal pain and a temperature of 40 degrees, of course, propolis will not be able to.
Another popular remedy for prostatitis is pumpkin seeds. Ate - and the order. But actually, you need to understand that pumpkin seeds only work on certain types of worms. And then, they do not kill them, but simply cause discomfort, from which worms can start to crawl out of a person. Since worms do not cause prostatitis, it is useless to treat them with pumpkin seeds.
Many use burdock root to treat prostatitis. Burdock has a diuretic and healing effect, and it also contains a lot of inulin, which is helpful for diabetes. There are no sores 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 rupture the urethra squeezed by the prostate, and it builds up even more pressure, increasing your pain and frequency of going to the bathroom. You need this?
In folk medicine, for the treatment of prostatitis, it is also advisable to use a decoction of bear root (red). The main effect of its use is anti-inflammatory. But it is weak enough to lessen the temperature and the 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 the drugs that are now advertised and sold as dietary supplements are plant components. They have mild anti-inflammatory and antibacterial efficacy. But as the only treatment for prostatitis, they are very weak as they have extremely low efficiency. I cannot recommend anything. The main problem with traditional medicine is the loss 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. - Heating, alternating heat and cold can be helpful. But it is important to remember that bathing is contraindicated for people who have heart and blood vessel problems. A very important point! In patients over 50, you need to be 100% sure it's prostatitis and not prostate cancer. Because the symptoms of chronic prostatitis are the same as those of 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.
You can go to the bath or sauna for the treatment of prostatitis 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 is the treatment and prevention of prostatitis consolidated.
It is better not to overheat in a bath or sauna, walk for pleasure and not for the sake of endurance records. We went into the steam room for 15-20 minutes, warmed up - went out to rest for 30-40 minutes. Then you can go back to warm up. It's best not to climb in the snow or an ice pool - otherwise you could get a new wave of hypothermia prostatitis!
home exercises for prostatitis
- There are many exercises for the prevention of prostatitis on the Internet now. But most of the time it's all marketing and advertising, - says the doctor. - Regular DAILY walking, squatting and climbing stairs will bring much more benefits! Of course it's 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 cafeteria during lunch hours not by elevator, but walking several floors. Sitting for 2 hours in a meeting? After that, head to the hallway and do some squats. In general, the squat is the very exercise that disperses blood well in the pelvis and fights stagnation.
After work we come home - leave the car in the yard and walk to the store, not on the road. 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, " he advises.urologist Sergey Kotov. - Records are not required, but walking for 40 minutes a day or fitness classes 2-3 times a week with lower body exercises will help. Cycling, 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;
- swing the legs;
- lying leg elevation;
- going up the stairs;
- Ride a bike;
- swimming.