Can prostatitis cause nephritis?

Prostatitis is a very common male genital disease in medicine. There are many causes of prostatitis, and it is also a multiple disease. Having prostatitis can easily lead to many physical complications, and may also easily cause nephritis. It can also easily affect the quality of sperm and fertility, leading to kidney disease or urinary system disease.

Can prostatitis cause nephritis?

Prostatitis is a complex pathological change of prostate inflammation, immunity, and neuroendocrine caused by a variety of complex reasons and inducements, resulting in urethral irritation and chronic pelvic pain as the main clinical manifestations of the disease. Prostatitis seriously affects the physical and mental health of male friends, affects the normal work and life of male friends, and affects the male sexual function. Prostatitis brings great pain to patients, so how do patients with prostatitis deal with the pain brought by prostatitis? What other effects does prostatitis have on men? Let's take a closer look.

1. Prone to infection

The human prostate contains an antibacterial substance called prostatic antibacterial factor. When the prostate is inflamed, this antibacterial factor decreases, making it easy to cause infection. Infection caused by prostatitis can lead to acute urinary retention, acute seminal vesiculitis or epididymitis, vas deferens, enlarged or tender spermatic lymph nodes, etc. In severe cases, groin pain or renal angina may occur.

2. Influencing functions

Leading to impotence and premature ejaculation. Because the disease has not been cured for a long time, various symptoms and discomforts worsen after sexual intercourse, or directly affect the feeling and quality of sexual life, causing a kind of malignant stimulation to the patient, gradually showing a kind of disgust for sex, leading to impotence, premature ejaculation and other phenomena.

3. Pain

Affecting work and life. Due to the stimulation of inflammation, a series of symptoms are produced, such as swelling and pain in the lumbar sacral area, perineum, testicles, etc., incomplete urination, frequent urination at night, etc., which make patients irritable and affect their work and life.

4. Impact on fertility

Can cause infertility. Long-term chronic inflammation changes the composition of prostatic fluid, affecting the secretory function of the prostate, which in turn affects the liquefaction time of semen and reduces sperm motility, which can lead to male infertility.

5. Lead to chronic nephritis

Develop into uremia. If prostatitis is not treated in time, it can lead to prostate hyperplasia, which will compress the bladder outlet, so that the urine cannot be completely emptied, resulting in residual urine. Residual urine is a good culture medium for bacterial reproduction. In addition, the defense mechanism of the bladder mucosa is damaged, so it is very easy to cause urinary tract infections such as pyelonephritis. If the treatment is not thorough at this time, pyelonephritis, hydronephrosis, etc. will develop into nephritis, and finally develop into uremia.

6. Cause endocrine disorders

Cause mental abnormality. Under normal circumstances, the prostate can secrete a variety of active substances. Due to prostate inflammation and endocrine disorders, neurasthenia and mental abnormality may occur; symptoms such as insomnia, fatigue, dizziness, slow thinking, and memory loss may also occur.

7. Infecting spouse and causing gynecological inflammation

Prostatitis can be transmitted to the wife, especially prostatitis caused by some special bacteria, whose inflammation can be transmitted to the wife through sexual intercourse, such as fungal prostatitis, trichomonas prostatitis, gonorrhea prostatitis, non-gonococcal (chlamydia, mycoplasma) prostatitis, etc.

8. Susceptibility to tumors

The study found that there is a statistically significant relationship between the prostate and the incidence of gonorrhea, which suggests that the cause of prostate cancer is related to viral STDs and chronic infections. The latest research shows that normal human prostate fluid contains an anti-cancer substance that is important for inhibiting tumors. When the prostate is diseased, this anti-cancer substance decreases, making it easy to cause tumors.

What should be paid attention to in treating prostatitis

1. Adhere to comprehensive treatment:

Chronic prostatitis is a relatively complex and difficult disease to treat. To adhere to comprehensive treatment, a certain course of treatment is required, generally 1-3 months of treatment, and after the treatment of prostatitis is effective, it is necessary to continue consolidating the treatment for a period of time, and it is forbidden to "quit when the treatment is good". Some patients refuse to continue treatment because the clinical symptoms are significantly alleviated or disappear, but in fact, the patient's subjective feelings are often inconsistent with objective examinations, and once the time is right, it will relapse. The cure criteria for chronic prostatitis also include normal test results of prostatic fluid and the removal of the cause of prostatitis.

2. Change your living habits:

The causes of prostatitis, good living habits include paying attention to daily life, maintaining adequate rest and sleep, participating in physical exercise appropriately, preventing excessive fatigue, having regular sex life, not drinking alcohol, not eating large amounts of irritating food, not sitting or riding for long periods of time, not living in cold and humid residences for long periods of time, and preventing infectious diseases such as influenza.

3. Eliminate psychological burden:

Many patients with chronic prostatitis often suffer from severe psychological burdens due to the long-term treatment of the disease. About 50% of them have different degrees of mental symptoms, and about 1%-3% even think that "life is worse than death" and have suicidal tendencies, which is extremely unfavorable for the treatment and recovery of the disease. The cause of prostatitis in some patients is severe mental and psychological abnormalities. Many doctors believe that chronic prostatitis is a psychosomatic disease. Therefore, it is very important to eliminate anxiety, reduce mental and psychological burdens, and divert attention from one's own physical abnormalities for the recovery of the disease.