Can I drink milk if I have chronic prostatitis?

Prostatitis is a physical disease that many men suffer from. It has a great impact on men and can easily affect their normal life and work. People with prostatitis can also drink milk, which contains a lot of trace elements and protein. Drinking milk regularly is very beneficial to physical health. Medicinal diet can also be used to assist in treatment.

Can patients with chronic prostatitis drink milk?

It can be drunk. Chronic prostatitis can also be treated with diet therapy.

Food therapy 1: stewed frog with winter melon, scallops and chicken

Ingredients: frog, winter melon, scallop, MSG, salt, tangerine peel, and ginger slices in appropriate amounts.

Method: Remove the internal organs of the frog, clean it and put it into the pot, add clean water, wash the dried scallops and put them into a small cup, add a little boiling water, steam it for 10 minutes and take it out. Peel the winter melon and put it into the frog stew pot, add salt and MSG, steam it for half an hour and take it out.

Applicable use: Frogs have the effects of removing heat and toxins, promoting diuresis and eliminating swelling, and dried scallops are mild in nature and can nourish the kidneys and yin, making them suitable for regulating the condition of patients with prostatitis.

Diet therapy 2: Chinese yam and chestnut porridge

Ingredients: yam, chestnut, jujube, and glutinous rice.

Method: After removing the chestnut shells, cook them together with yam, jujube and rice into porridge.

Applicable: Yam is sweet and mild in nature, can nourish the spleen and stomach, benefit the lungs and kidneys, and is especially suitable for relieving the pain of acute prostatitis. However, it is not advisable to eat too much at one time, otherwise it is easy to cause food stagnation and indigestion.

Diet therapy 3: Tomato

Patients with acute prostatitis can take one spoon of diced tomatoes, half a spoon each of chopped celery, chopped carrot, and lard every day, mix them into boiling rice porridge, cook it, add salt and MSG in appropriate amounts and eat it. It is also effective for patients with acute prostatitis.

Symptoms of prostatitis

1. Acute bacterial prostatitis occurs suddenly, with chills and high fever, frequent urination, urgency, and pain. Dysuria or acute urinary retention may occur. Clinically, it is often accompanied by acute cystitis. The prostate is swollen, tender, and has a local temperature increase. The surface is smooth, and there is a feeling of fullness or fluctuation when abscesses are formed.

2. Chronic bacterial prostatitis has symptoms of frequent urination, urgent urination, painful urination, urethral discomfort or burning during urination. White secretions often flow out of the urethra after urination and defecation. Sometimes there may be blood in semen, pain in the perineum, sexual dysfunction, and mental and neurological symptoms. The prostate is full, enlarged, soft, and slightly tender. In patients with a long course of disease, the prostate shrinks, hardens, has an incomplete surface, and has small nodules.

3. The clinical manifestations of chronic nonbacterial prostatitis and prostatitis are similar to those of chronic bacterial prostatitis, but there is no history of recurrent urinary tract infection. The main symptoms are urinary tract irritation and dysuria, especially the manifestation of chronic pelvic pain syndrome. Mycoplasma and chlamydia can be cultured in the prostatic fluid of some patients.