What is an Enlarged Prostate?

Prostatic hypertrophy is also known as benign prostatic hyperplasia. Symptoms are mainly manifested in two groups of symptoms, one is bladder irritation; the other is obstructive symptoms due to obstructed urinary tract due to prostatic hyperplasia. Bladder irritation symptoms: frequent urination, urgency, increased nocturia, and urge incontinence. Frequent urination is an early signal of benign prostatic hyperplasia, and the increased frequency of nocturia is more clinically significant. The disease has three main characteristics: enlarged prostate; blocked bladder outlet; lower urinary tract symptoms such as difficulty urinating, frequent urination, and urgency. If symptoms are found, it is recommended to go to the hospital for examination and treatment in time. So as not to delay the illness and affect health.

Benign prostatic hypertrophy

Enlarged prostate

1.The first is

Prostatic hyperplasia is caused by the human body's imbalance of sex hormones and other factors, which cause the connective tissue and smooth muscle tissue of the middle lobe or inverted lobe of the posterior urethral mucosa to gradually proliferate, forming multiple spherical nodules.

1. Keep clean: Men's scrotum has great flexibility, more sweat is secreted, coupled with poor ventilation of the genitals, it is easy to hide dirt and dirt, and local bacteria often invade. This will cause

First, the symptoms of bladder stimulation of benign prostatic hypertrophy: mainly

I. Vigilant observation.

Therapy: mild benign prostatic hyperplasia, asymptomatic or very mild symptoms, need to be regularly checked and closely observed, once the condition develops, active treatment is required. You can change your lifestyle to promote rehabilitation, such as reducing the amount of fluids, quoting fluids at regular intervals, avoiding alcohol and a lot of coffee drinks.

Disadvantages: can not afford the therapeutic effect, only for the care of the disease.

Second, medication.

Therapy: On the market, drugs such as hormones or antihormones, alpha-adrenergic blockers, 5alpha-receptor reductase inhibitors, and cholesterol inhibitors are often used.

Disadvantages: large side effects, easy to produce dependence, after long-term service will cause greater harm to the cardio-cerebral vascular system and immune system. And because western medicine is not completely clear about the root cause and pathogenesis of benign prostatic hyperplasia, western medicine is mainly used to improve and alleviate symptoms rather than cure benign prostatic hyperplasia.

Third, surgical treatment

Therapy: palliative surgery such as bilateral orchiectomy, transurethral resection of the prostate; open bladder prostatectomy, retropubic prostatectomy, and transperineal prostatectomy.

Disadvantages: Surgery is high risk and expensive. During the operation, it is necessary to consider factors such as hospital conditions, doctors' proficiency and experience in surgery. Moreover, the surgical resection is not a complete resection of the prostate tissue, and there may still be lesions in the prostate tissue left in the body.