All You Cared To Know About Prostatitis
If you are a man and your prostate gland is inflamed and possibly infected you have a condition called, “prostatitis”. Half of all males will get prostatitis at some point in their lifetime. If you do develop prostatitis it by no means increases your risk for prostate cancer or any other prostate disease.
Sometimes prostatitis is caused by a bacterial infection. Other cases of prostatitis are not caused by any form of known infecting organism and cannot be effectively treated by antibiotics.
There are several different types of prostatitis including acute bacterial prostatitis, asymptomatic inflammatory prostatitis, chronic bacterial prostatitis, and chronic prostatitis also known as chronic pelvic pain syndrome.
If you are a man and you have frequent urination or a sense of real urgency to urinate, have a painful or burning upon urination, or suffer from lower back or genital area pain you may have prostatitis.
There are several tests that can be conducted to diagnose prostatitis including a digital rectal examination, a urine test and a physical examination.
Prostatitis is not contagious, and it is not spread by sexual contact.
The treatment is not the same for all types of prostatitis.
If you have chills, fever, pain in your lower back or genital area, have to urinate frequently, have to urinate frequently at night, have painful urination or a burning sensation upon urination, experience body aches and have white blood cells or bacteria in your urine, you may have acute bacterial prostatitis. The treatment for acute bacterial prostatitis is a complete course of appropriate antibiotic.
If you are a male, who has infection-fighting cells in your semen but do not have any symptoms of inflammatory prostatitis you may have asymptomatic inflammatory prostatitis. Typically this form of prostatitis is found when a doctor is testing for infertility or testing for prostate cancer.
If you are a man who has a defect in your prostate you may be a prime candidate for chronic bacterial prostatitis, which is not a common form of the disease but occurs because of the defect being a place for a bacterial infection to linger in the urinary tract. If the defect is removed and the infection treated with antibiotics the condition will be cured. Antibiotics do not always work though.
Men of any age can develop chronic prostatitis also known as chronic pelvic pain syndrome. The symptoms may go away on their own only to return again without warning. The condition can be inflammatory or noninflammatory. Changing diet and taking warm baths may help with this condition and your doctor may prescribe a medication called an alpha-blocker to relax the muscle tissue in the prostate.
If you suspect that you may have any of the above forms of prostatitis see your doctor for diagnosis and treatment.
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