Chronic Prostatitis Treatments

Treatment options for chronic prostatitis are quite complex and the patient should be prepared for long term treatment. They include include a combination of medication, surgery, and lifestyle changes.

General information

The treatment of chronic prostatitis is quite complex.

• general treatment recommends that one should have a diet rich in vitamins
• suppress of alcohol and irritating spices (pepper, tabasco, hot pepper, mustard, vinegar). All these produce an irritation of the posterior urethra and…

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Chronic prostatitis symptoms

Chronic prostatitis has varying symptoms. A lot of patients with a mild infection show no symptoms. The troubles which may occur are urinary or genital, accompanied by unpleasant sensations, or even pain. These sensations are localized inside the perineum, the rectum and the urethra and irradiate towards the ribs and penis. They start off with a sensation of weight or warmness, and sometimes with real pains.

Urinary troubles include:

• the need to urinate…

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Chronic bacterial prostatitis

Chronic Bacterial Prostatitis is the chronic inflammation of the prostate gland. This disorder occurs mostly in young and mature man, younger than 50. It follows an acute prostatitis or a chronic posterior urethritis. Thus, Chronic bacterial prostatitis is always accompanied by the inflammation of periurethral glands. A certain number of symptoms and complications, in the history of chronic prostatitis, belong to the posterior urethritis.

Causes

Apart from the Genococcus (the most frequent cause…

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Preventive (Prophylactic) prostatitis treatment

The preventive treatment of acute prostatitis (acute prostate inflammation) consists in avoiding, in clearing some of the causes favoring the localization of the infection at prostatic level:

• correctly and promptly treat urethritis
• avoid all factors which lead to pelvic congestion
  • horse back riding
  • bicycle riding
  • alcoholic drinks
  • spices (pepper, tabasco, hot pepper, mustard, vinegar)
  • coldness
  • constipation
  • heavy meals
  • sexual excesses
  • sitting for long periods of time
  • etc.

Here’s your prevention program:

1. Visit your personal doctor
2. Take a PSA test. Allopathic doctors say this is…

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Acute prostatitis treatments

The treatment of acute prostatitis offers much better results if applied in early stages. In follicular stage, antibiotics administered after finding the pathogenic bacteria and researching its sensitivity, associated with local treatment (warm sitz bath, enemas with remedies, calming suppositories) give good results. Phytotherapy (the use of plants, directly or indirectly) can also be considered when looking for a natural prostatitis cure.

In abscess phase, the treatment is surgical. The prostatic…

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Acute Prostatitis Symptoms

We will now deal with the acute prostatitis signs and symptoms. In cases of hematogen origin, this disorderdoesn’t provoke urinary tract pains. On the other hand, it starts with high fever, chills, nausea, vomit.

Prostatitis may occur in conjunction with epididymitis or orchitis, especially if caused by an Sexually Transmitted Disease, in which case symptoms of the accompanying condition may also be present.

The symptoms of acute prostatitis are as follows:

1. In the…

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Acute prostatitis

Acute prostatitis is an inflammation of the prostate gland that develops suddenly.

Some statistics: prostatitis is diagnosed in approximately 2 of every 10,000 outpatient visits. Men who have multiple sexual partners and with ages between 20 and 35 are at an increased risk. Also at high risk are those who engage in anal intercourse, especially without using condoms.

Men age 50 or older who have an enlarged prostate are at increased risk for…

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Acute Prostatitis Staging

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Prostatitis statistics

• Some estimated prostatitis to affect an estimated 30-50% of males. But European statistics show 5-10% of men of fertile age suffer from it, while the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey claims 8-9% are affected.
• Acute bacterial prostatitis is the least common of the four types but also the easiest to diagnose and treat effectively.
• Chronic bacterial prostatitis, also relatively uncommon, is acute prostatitis associated with an underlying defect in the prostate, which…

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Prostatitis symptoms diagnose

Tests & Lab Analysis

Your health care provider may perform a physical examination to assess the prostate (warm, soft, swollen, or tender), the groin lymph nodes (enlarged or tender), the scrotum (swollen or tender), and the urethra (discharge).

Triple-void urine specimens (also called the three-glass test) may be collected for urinalysis and urine culture:

1. initial stream- helps identify urethral flora
2. mid-stream- after prostatic massage- identifies prostatic flora
3. after prostatic- corresponds to the vesical flora

Note: Sometimes…

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