Author: Chen Shanwen (Huashan Hospital, Fudan University)
Many men are affected by prostatitis at some point in their lives, and while prostatitis is not a direct life-threatening disease, it can seriously affect the quality of life of patients.
Based on years of clinical experience, I have summarized 10 precautions for the treatment and prevention of prostatitis, aiming to make more patients take fewer detours and correctly understand and treat prostatitis:
I. "Six Persistences"
Adhere to the treatment of public hospitals (hospital names with "people", "affiliated", "first, second, third etc"... ), conditional urology, andrology, andrology outpatient clinics, formal + professional = good results.
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Insist on improving personal bad lifestyle habits, try to avoid alcohol, spicy diet, sedentary, long cycling, avoid excessive sex, establish a regular life pattern or develop regular sperm evacuation (2 to 3 times in January).
Insist on exercise and enhance disease resistance (150-200 minutes of aerobic exercise per week, swimming, Kegel exercise pelvic floor muscle exercise, etc.);
Insist on drinking water, rinse the urethra ("running water does not rot"), the daily water intake is recommended to be 2 to 3 liters;
Insist on learning, feeling and symptoms are the clearest, and at the same time learn to strengthen the understanding of the disease and better cooperate with doctors;
Adhere to regular treatment, identify pathogenic bacteria through prostatic fluid culture + susceptibility test, select sensitive antibiotics, and listen to doctors' recommendations to take an adequate course of treatment.
Second, "four don't"
Don't believe in small advertisements, small hospitals, small clinics, laborers, wrong diseases, and hurt money;
Do not lose confidence, sometimes the mentality is more important than medication, actively face life, the treatment of diseases can not be avoided, please carry out diagnosis and treatment under the guidance of professional doctors in regular hospitals, which is very critical.
Do not abuse antibiotics, lead to dysbacteriosis, make conditional pathogenic bacteria or drug-resistant bacteria grow, and even cause fungal double infection, aggravate the disease, increase the difficulty of treatment and course of treatment.
Do not do prostate injection/perfusion or hyperthermia (microwave, radio frequency, laser, field effect ablation, etc.) there is a risk of permanent urethral stenosis, and at the same time can promote the hardening of prostate tissue and form more scar shells, which are not conducive to inflammatory drainage, making it difficult for antibacterial drugs to reach the lesion site and increasing the difficulty of treatment.
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