Post Date December, 02 2023
With the advent of the severe winter season, the temperature dropped sharply, and the incidence rate of acute prostatitis also rose linearly. Acute prostatitis is a common disease of young and middle-aged men's genitourinary system. Compared with chronic prostatitis, the incidence rate of acute prostatitis is lower. Why on earth? Doctors pointed out that there are many factors that cause the onset of acute prostatitis, such as frequent sex, sedentary, often holding urine and drinking less water. The main reasons for its sudden high incidence in winter are as follows:
1. Failure to pay attention to keeping warm may cause local cooling, thus causing acute prostatitis. In winter, the temperature gradually drops, and many male friends get cold locally because they don't pay attention to keeping warm, which leads to acute prostatitis. In fact, many diseases of the reproductive and urinary system have this feature, such as acute prostatitis, seminal vesiculitis, urethritis, etc., which basically invades when the patient's physical and mental fatigue and immunity decline.
2. Maintaining a sitting position for a long time will make the prostate hyperemia and edema due to long-term compression, leading to acute prostatitis. Because of the low temperature, especially in the cold winter, many male friends will try to reduce their outdoor activities and physical exercise, stay indoors for a long time, or work, or take part in leisure activities such as watching movies, playing mahjong, and keep sitting posture for a long time, which will cause the prostate gland to be compressed for a long time, causing congestion and edema, and induce acute prostatitis. This also explains why most of the patients with acute prostatitis are white-collar workers in the office.
3. Spicy food causes trouble. In particular, drinking beer while eating spicy hot pot is regarded as a great enjoyment in winter. However, spicy and pungent foods such as pepper, scallion, garlic, pepper, and beer can cause vasodilation and organ congestion. Mild vasodilation can accelerate blood circulation, and the blood vessels of the prostate continue to expand. If the prostate is in a state of congestion for a long time, prostatitis will be induced.
The main causes of acute prostatitis are:
1. In gonococcal urethritis, bacteria enter the prostate gland through the prostate tube to cause inflammation.
2. Prostatic hyperplasia and calculus make the prostate urethra deformed, curved and congested, losing immunity to non-pathogenic bacteria and causing prostatitis.
3. When urethral instruments are used, bacteria or upper urinary tract inflammatory bacteria are brought down, causing prostate infection.
4. The second is hematogenous infection, which is often secondary to acute infection of skin, tonsils, dental caries, intestines or respiratory tract, and bacteria reach the prostate through blood to cause infection.
Symptoms of prostatitis:
1. Local symptoms: heavy pressure in the perineum or suprapubic region, aggravated when sitting for a long time or defecating, and spread to the waist, thigh, back and lower abdomen.
2. Systemic symptoms: fatigue, weakness, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, high fever, chills, collapse or septicemia. In case of sudden onset, the systemic symptoms can cover up the local symptoms.
3. Urinary tract symptoms: burning pain during urination, urgency, frequency of urination, dripping urine and purulent urethral secretion. Edema in the bladder neck can lead to poor urination, fine or interrupted urine flow, and even urinary retention in severe cases.
4. Rectal symptoms: distended rectum, urgent and painful defecation, and white urethra during defecation.
What is more worrying is the elderly. The elderly men can't urinate all the time and the frequency of urination are the early signals of prostate hyperplasia. Generally speaking, the number of nocturnal urination is often parallel to the degree of prostatic hypertrophy. The elderly who didn't wake up at night usually urinated 1-2 times at night, often reflecting the onset of early obstruction, but developed from 2 times per night to 4-5 times per night or more, indicating the development and aggravation of the disease.
Frequent urination not only interferes with sleep, but also often causes colds due to frequent waking up at night. If you are not careful, you will easily slip. Once male friends find symptoms of acute prostatitis such as frequent urination, endless urination, and urgency of urination, they should immediately go to a professional specialized hospital for examination and treatment, so as not to delay the better time for treatment.
