What causes acute prostatitis?

There are many reasons for acute prostatitis, the most prominent of which is urethral infection. The most important thing is personal hygiene. If personal hygiene is well managed, you will not get acute prostatitis. Therefore, I would like to warn all male friends to pay attention to personal hygiene. Otherwise, if you get acute prostatitis, you can only blame yourself!

Prostatitis is a common disease in urology, and ranks first among male patients under 50 years old in urology. In 1995, NIH developed a new classification method for prostatitis: Type I: equivalent to acute bacterial prostatitis in the traditional classification method, Type II: equivalent to chronic bacterial prostatitis in the traditional classification method, Type III: chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome, Type IV: asymptomatic prostatitis. Among them, nonbacterial prostatitis is far more common than bacterial prostatitis.

Only a small number of patients have an acute history, and most of them present with chronic, recurrent symptoms. The main causative factors of type I and type II prostatitis are infection by pathogens, which invade the prostate with urine, leading to infection. Pathological anatomy has confirmed that prostatitis lesions are generally confined to the peripheral zone, where the glandular ducts open in the posterior urethra in the opposite direction of the vertical line of the urine flow, which can easily cause urine reflux, while the glandular ducts in the central zone and transitional zone run in the same direction as the urine flow, making infection less likely to occur. The pathogenesis of type III is unclear, and the etiology is very complex and widely debated. Recent studies have also found that uric acid in urine not only stimulates the prostate, but can also precipitate into stones, block the glandular ducts, and serve as a shelter for bacteria. These findings indicate that prostatitis syndrome is actually a common manifestation of multiple diseases, and its clinical manifestations are complex and varied, which may cause various complications or resolve on their own.

First of all, a clinical assessment should be conducted to determine the type of disease and select treatment methods based on the cause. Misunderstanding of the disease, unnecessary anxiety and excessive abstinence will aggravate the symptoms. Prostatitis may be a disease with mild or no symptoms, a self-limiting disease that can be relieved on its own, or a disease with complex symptoms that leads to urinary tract infection, sexual dysfunction, infertility, etc. The treatment of patients should avoid over-exaggerating the harmfulness of the disease to patients, and should also avoid taking a simple, negative, and blindly focused attitude towards antibiotic treatment. Individualized comprehensive treatment should be adopted.

Acute prostatitis brings a lot of pain to male friends, and there are great problems with sexual function. If you have acute prostatitis, you should go to a regular hospital for treatment as soon as possible. After all, although this is a common disease, you may not be able to cure it if you torture yourself! The above is my advice to you, I hope it will be helpful to you!