8 Mistaken Ideas in Prostatitis
8 Mistaken Ideas in Prostatitis
- cpps treatment and benign prostatic hyperplasia are the one and the same disease.
No. A lot of patients often mistake benign prostatic hyperplasia for prostatitis, and some of them even think that the former results from the latter. They are absolutely wrong. In fact, these two diseases are totally different, with different symptoms, pathologies respectively.
- benign prostatic hyperplasia can only be cured through surgery.
No. When patients notice slight symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia such as weak stream, frequent and urgent urination, they can release these symptoms or even recover by change dietary habit and their lifestyle alone, either or in combination with medication. But, if there present symptoms like blood in urine and hydronephrosis, an instant procedure is needed.
- benign prostatic hyperplasia increase the risk of developing prostate cancer.
No. Benign prostatic hyperplasia has nothing to do with prostate cancer. For a man with normal physiological development, benign prostatic hyperplasia will appear naturally with ageing, which is an common and normal phenomena indicating ageing. Even though some of these people may suffer from prostate cancer, there no co-relation between them.
- prostatitis is a contagious disease.
No. chronic nonbacterial prostatitis treatment is classified into infectious prostatitis and noninfectious prostatitis. Only the infectious one with bacteria is contagious and patients with it should practice sexual abstinence.
- antibiotics is the inevitable therapy for prostatitis.
No. Chronic non-bacterial prostatitis accounts for 90% of the cases. Antibiotics is not effective treatment for noninfectious prostatitis.
- people with prostatitis should refrain from sex.
No. Patients with non-bacterial prostatitis can neither sexual abstinence nor sexual indulgence are healthy. Regular sexes can expel prostate fluid and release its stress, which help recover prostate function and alleviate inflammation.
- prostatitis is a kind of untreatable disease.
No. In spite of complex causes and risk factors of prostatitis, this disease could be cured only under conditions that patients seek medical attention and take scientific treatment from formal hospital.
- change medicine or treatment casually.
No. For acute infectious prostatitis, antibiotics should be taken for 14 days, and the chronic one usually for 4-12 weeks, and then symptoms can release. Frequent changes of medicine will lead to dysbactetiosis and drug resistance.
