Although the pathogens in the prostate have been completely removed in a short time after the prostatitis patients are cured, it does not mean that the prostate tissue damage caused by infection has been completely repaired. During the period of disease recovery, the prostate may often be in a sub-healthy state.
It is effective for some antibiotic treatments, but those who have relapsed after repeated drug withdrawal can take long-term or lifelong treatment to prevent the recurrence of prostatitis.
Although the pathogens in the prostate have been completely removed in a short period of time after the prostatitis patients are cured, it does not mean that the prostate tissue damage caused by infection has been completely repaired. During the recovery period of the disease, the prostate may often be in a sub-healthy state, which is more likely to re-infect the pathogens or cause the obvious hyperemia of the prostate again than the general population, and cause the symptoms of prostatitis to reappear. Preventing the re-infection of pathogens is a problem that doctors and cured patients should pay special attention to, but empirical long-term antibacterial drugs should not be used. The effective measures that can be taken include keeping the perineum clean and dry, avoiding overwork, having regular sex under the protection of sterile penis sleeve or regularly expelling semen during sexual excitement, strengthening nutrition, improving the health of the body, proper physical exercise, enhancing the body's resistance, etc. These measures can not only help patients effectively alleviate the physiological and psychological symptoms, but also help prevent the re-infection of bacteria and other pathogenic microorganisms.
In addition, among the effectively cured patients with prostatitis, after a long period of time, some people may still have the symptoms of prostatitis again or repeatedly. The reason may be that some predisposing factors that cause them to suffer from prostatitis still exist, for example, related to such factors as lower systemic resistance, poor sanitation, bad living habits, unclean sexual behavior, and so on. At this time, some pathogenic bacteria, conditional pathogenic bacteria or normal bacterial flora of the urethra can be infected or re-infected. Therefore, according to the principle of individualization, a comprehensive and effective detailed plan for the prevention of prostatitis can be formulated for specific patients, and its implementation can be supervised, which may achieve good results.
(Intern editor: Cai Junyi)