The first symptoms of prostatitis: 4 mistakes that men make

Prostatitis becomes a problem for more and more men worldwide every year. No wonder it was dubbed the plague of the 21st century. Statistics show disappointing numbers: the peak of the disease occurs in the men aged 25 to 30. This means that over the past ten years, the disease has gotten significantly younger face. Such a growth of this prostate disease is linked to the rising popularity of office work, as well as the fact that not all men are cautious about their intimate health and do not always seek help from specialists in time.

Here are typical mistakes that men make when the first prostatitis signs and symptoms appear:

1. Do not take seriously when the disease first "rings a bell"

Often, when symptoms of prostatitis appear (frequent urge to go to the bathroom, pain in the groin area and lower back), men naively write them off as a common cold. Or they do not pay attention to the obvious symptoms or manifestation of the disease and do not rush to see a doctor. This outrageous mistake can lead to serious ramifications. After all, painful sensations soon go away but prostatitis can develop into a chronic form. And when prostatitis is neglected and overlooked, the risk of impotence, infertility and prostate cancer increases.

2. Self-medicate

What do many of us do when we have any ailments? Of course, look it up on the Internet. So men are trying to figure out their diagnosis and find treatment options on the world wide web. And often they manage to do that. But few people realize that such self-treatment can be not only no help but also worsen the problem. The fact is that effective treatment of prostatitis can be prescribed only after examination using modern diagnostic methods. Only in this case it will be possible to identify the real causes of the disease and choose the right treatment based on that. Otherwise, there is a risk of being treated for the wrong disease, using the wrong methods.

3. Practice sexual abstinence

Faced with prostatitis symptoms, men tend to completely renounce intimacy while treating the disease. And this tactic is fundamentally wrong because the feeling of self-doubt is developing and the desire to have sex is decreasing. Scientists have proved that you can and even need to have sex if you got prostatitis: sex helps men recover. That is due to the fact that during ejaculation, there are strong contractions of the pelvic muscles, which lead to the work of the prostate muscles. Its effect is comparable to prostate massage. If a man begins to abstain, the prostate ceases to perform its main functions. This leads to stagnation of the blood in it, which makes the existing inflammatory process even more acute.

4. Refuse some types of treatment

Men do not always like the methods of treatment that the doctor prescribes. Especially when it comes to prostate massage, regular medical examinations or the use of rectal medications (e.g., laxatives). Although it is the kind of comprehensive treatment that fights the disease with 70% chance of success.

In order to protect yourself from inflammation of the prostate gland, men must implement the following recommendations:

• Avoid long-term sexual abstinence
• Do not smoke
• Say no to frequent changes of sexual partners
• Minimize the impact of stress
• Avoid hypothermia
• Do not suppress the "urge to go"
• Be more active

Prostatitis is quite an insidious disease. It comes on slowly and does not have obvious symptoms or manifestations at first. That is why men sometimes do not take it seriously (at least at the beginning) and cannot always really assess the severity of the consequences that prostatitis can lead to. In the future, it can cause many complications and chronic diseases: the risk of infertility with prostate inflammation increases by 40%. Therefore, representatives of the male population should be more attentive to the health of their genitals, and if any symptoms appear, immediately contact a doctor.