Post Date December, 03 2023
The relationship between prostatitis and fertility has not been fully clarified. Because some patients are infertile, they naturally link the two directly, and individuals even dare not marry because of fear that prostatitis will affect fertility. And some doctors also firmly focus on prostatitis to find the cause of male infertility, which seems too far-fetched.
Doctor Li explained that when the prostate gland is inflamed, the secretion of prostate fluid decreases, which reduces the amount of semen and interferes with the survival and activity of sperm. At the same time, the activity of enzymes in prostate fluid decreases, the viscosity of semen increases, and the liquefaction time extends. In addition, the presence of inflammation can also reduce the pH value of semen, and make the body produce anti-sperm antibodies, causing sperm death. Prostate fluid contains a large amount of bacteria and bacterial toxins due to inflammation, which can consume the nutrients of seminal plasma, thus affecting the survival of sperm. Patients may also further reduce fertility due to the use of large amounts of antibiotics. These may affect male fertility, but are not decisive factors. In fact, the symptoms of chronic prostatitis in the vast majority of male infertility patients are relatively mild. In clinical practice, some patients have severe prostate inflammation, but their fertility is safe.
Since most of the patients with abnormal semen liquefaction are accompanied by genital infectious diseases such as prostatitis, therefore, in order to prevent the occurrence of semen liquefaction, men should pay attention to protecting their prostate in daily life, such as not drinking too much, eating less spicy food, avoiding long-term cycling and sitting, having regular sex life, and paying attention to local warmth.
The cause of male infertility is very complex, and it is definitely not only caused by prostatitis. If chronic prostatitis is overemphasized, other causes will often be ignored, thus delaying the treatment opportunity, and may also unnecessarily increase the patient's fear of the disease. If the husband and wife do not find other causes of infertility through systematic examination, they need not be too nervous, because chronic prostatitis can be completely cured.
