Can I have sex if I have prostatitis?

Prostatitis is a very common male disease, and there are many reasons why men suffer from prostatitis. Generally, long-term stress or bacterial infection can easily lead to prostatitis. Prostatitis needs to be treated in time. You can have sex during the period of prostatitis, but you need to wear condoms to isolate bacteria.

Can I have sex if I have prostatitis?

Prostatitis is very common in clinical practice, and most of the patients are men aged 15-45. According to the different causes, prostatitis can be divided into four categories, mainly acute prostatitis, chronic bacterial prostatitis, chronic aseptic prostatitis and asymptomatic prostatitis. Among them, the more common ones are chronic aseptic prostatitis and chronic bacterial prostatitis. For prostatitis, generally if there is no bacterial infection, it usually does not have a certain impact on the sexual partner during sexual intercourse. If it is bacterial prostatitis, the prostatic fluid often contains pathogenic bacteria, which will cause bacterial infection to the female vagina during sexual intercourse. Therefore, patients with prostatitis need to further determine which type of prostatitis they belong to. In addition, condoms can be used during sexual intercourse.

Generally speaking, patients with chronic prostatitis can have sex once or twice a week to ten days, depending on their age and sexual desire. The duration of each intercourse must be controlled and should not be too long to avoid excessive congestion of the prostate.

Unmarried or separated married persons should use masturbation to discharge semen at the above time intervals or do regular prostate massage (1-2 times a week) to discharge prostate fluid.

Abstinence does not prevent prostate congestion

We know that young and middle-aged people have two kinds of sexual desire, namely, the desire for contact and the desire for distension and relief. Since adult males have this physiological requirement, relying on subjective abstinence will not only fail to achieve the purpose of suppressing sexual impulses, relieving sexual excitement, and reducing prostate congestion, but on the contrary, because the "distension" cannot be discharged and released, it will aggravate prostate congestion and cause prostatitis to be difficult to cure. Adult men can understand this truth from the feeling of relief after ejaculation during intercourse and the experience of repeated erection and congestion of the penis caused by not ejaculating for a long time.

It should be noted that sexual function has the principle of "use it or lose it", and due to misunderstandings, worries and fears about prostatitis, if patients abstain from sex for a long time, some patients will inevitably experience a decrease in sexual desire or even erectile dysfunction over time.

However, it should be emphasized that patients with prostatitis should not abstain from sex, but indulgence in sex is not recommended either. Indulgence or deliberately controlling ejaculation will also make it difficult to recover from prostatitis.

Warm reminder: As long as prostatitis patients understand their own condition, they can decide the next treatment plan based on their actual situation. Therefore, cooperating with the doctor's treatment is a very important part for prostatitis patients. Some prostatitis patients do not follow the doctor's instructions and use medication indiscriminately, so their prostatitis condition will worsen.