The most vile disease for men is not a heart attack or stroke, but prostatitis. You simply cannot do the most ordinary thing normally - go to the toilet. When you try to urinate, everything hurts, urine comes out drop by drop, forcing you to hang around in the bathroom for a long time and run into it again in just five minutes. And also cramps in the groin, fever and chills . . . Pleasant little.
To understand how to prevent the development of the disease and what prevention of prostatitis exists, we talked with 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:
- causative agents 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, without a condom - no, no! Yes, and not only from prostatitis will protect, if that.
In the second case, E. coli can get on your precious penis both from dirty hands that are not washed after the toilet, or 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 drops and blood stagnates in the pelvic organs. The same E. coli that is normally present in our body can multiply rapidly and get in the wrong place if it freezes. Stagnant blood causes swelling of organs, including the prostate. As a result, urine goes worse 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 overcool and soberly assess your strength during hardening. With a sharp hypothermia, the body may not be able to resist infections, which it has successfully coped with before, experts explain.
Move more!
Nowadays, when most of the working time we sit in the office, then we go while sitting in the car, and then we 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 work 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 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 work of the prostate gland. During sex, blood circulation is powerfully increased, metabolic processes are better. Again, the prostate is actively secreting its juice, which is the liquid part of the semen. No stagnation and therefore no chance for the infection to gain a foothold. 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 lowers the immune system and makes it harder for the body to fight infections. Secondly, alcohol dilates blood vessels, and this leads to various stagnation and swelling, which we have already talked about. Thirdly, from drunk you can pull on feats. And there is already up to unprotected sex not far from an unfamiliar woman and falling asleep in an incomprehensible place on a cold floor.
Treat chronic diseases
With hypothermia or a large amount of alcohol drunk, the infection can enter the prostate and other organs from internal foci of infection. For example, from carious 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 whole range of drugs for prostatitis is used:
- antibiotics, since the main cause of prostatitis is an infection, it is treated first of all;
- anti-inflammatory and painkillers (scientifically "non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs"), these drugs bring down the temperature during acute prostatitis, relieve pain and inflammation from the prostate gland;
- alpha-blockers - drugs that relax the prostate gland and improve the passage of urine; due to inflammation, the prostate is enlarged in size, presses on the urethra and does not allow urine to exit normally;
- vitamins and dietary supplements, they improve the restoration of normal prostate function after the infection is defeated and the 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 to.
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 begin to crawl out of a person. Since worms do not cause prostatitis, it is pointless to treat with pumpkin seeds.
Many use burdock root to treat prostatitis. Burdock has a diuretic and wound-healing effect, and it 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 break through the urethra squeezed by the prostate, and you increase the pressure even more, increasing your pain and the frequency of visiting the toilet. Do you need it?
In folk medicine, for the treatment of prostatitis, it is also advised to use a decoction of a bear (red) root. The main effect of its use is anti-inflammatory. But it is rather weak in order to bring down the temperature and pain. In addition, the bear root does not fight the infection in any way.
"Our people are so severe that they can be treated with anything, " saysurologist Sergey Kotov. - At the heart of all 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 too weak, as they have extremely low efficiency. I can't recommend anything. The main trouble of traditional medicine is the loss of time and the late start of normal treatment.
Bath for prostatitis
- The most effective folk way to treat prostatitis is a bath! says the urologist. - Warming up, alternating heat and cold can be helpful. But it is important to remember that the bath is contraindicated for people who have problems with the heart and blood vessels. A very important point! In patients older than 50 years, 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 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 the treatment of prostatitis only if you feel well! Do not walk immediately after eating or while intoxicated. You can not walk with acute prostatitis when you have a temperature! Only after the normalization of well-being to consolidate the treatment and prevention of prostatitis.
In a bath or sauna, it is better not to overheat, 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 come back to warm up. It is better not to climb into the snow or an icy pool - otherwise you can get a new wave of prostatitis from hypothermia!
Home exercises for prostatitis
- There are a lot of exercises for the prevention of prostatitis on the Internet now. But, for the most part, it's all marketing and advertising, - says the doctor. - Regular DAILY walking, squatting and climbing stairs will bring much more benefits! It is clear that it is 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 break not by elevator, but by walking several floors. Sat for 2 hours in a meeting? After it, go out into the corridor and do a few squats. In general, squats are the very exercise that well disperses the blood in the pelvis and fights stagnation.
After work, we arrived home - leave the car in the yard and go to the store on foot, and do not drive into it on the road. 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. - Records are not needed, but walking for 40 minutes a day or fitness classes 2-3 times a week with exercises for the lower body will help. Biking, walking, squatting, bending over, swimming are very good home exercises for prostatitis.
Remember the main exercises for the prevention of prostatitis:
- walking;
- squats;
- forward bends;
- swing your legs;
- lying leg raise;
- walking up the stairs;
- Biking;
- swimming.