Can I have sex if I have seminal vesiculitis?

Sexual life is a normal need for people in life, but some people have sexual problems, which often affect their sexual life. Of course, there are some diseases that require you to avoid sexual life. For example, seminal vesiculitis is a more serious disease problem that occurs in men. Most men should pay attention to treatment after they develop this disease, so can you have sex with seminal vesiculitis?

Can I have sex if I have seminal vesiculitis?

If you have seminal vesiculitis, you need to stop having sex. This will not only allow the seminal vesicle to get enough rest and restore its normal sexual function, but also prevent the semen containing bacteria from entering the female reproductive tract. Patients with seminal vesiculitis often experience blood in semen, pain during ejaculation, discomfort and hidden pain in the lower abdomen and perineum during sexual intercourse. If the inflammation is severe and abscesses form, it can cause systemic fever, and clinical symptoms of frequent urination, urgency and pain will appear. It means that during an anal examination, the seminal vesicle can be felt (easy to touch under normal circumstances), the seminal vesicle is enlarged, hard, and tender, and the massage fluid is bloody seminal fluid or bloody prostatic fluid. Laboratory examination can report that the semen contains a large number of red blood cells, and even worse, pathogenic bacteria, white ribs, and even pus components.

Do I need to abstain from sex if I have seminal vesiculitis?

Seminal vesiculitis requires abstinence. For normal men, a lot of seminal vesicle fluid accumulates in the seminal vesicle before ejaculation, and the pressure inside the seminal vesicle is very high. After ejaculation, the pressure inside the seminal vesicle drops sharply. This ups and downs in pressure can easily cause seminal vesicle bleeding. In seminal vesiculitis, the seminal vesicle wall is edematous and congested, and the capillaries on the wall become more fragile and easily ruptured. The seminal vesicle fluid overflowing in the seminal vesicle may have been stained red by blood. If ejaculation happens during sexual intercourse, the seminal vesicle will contract strongly, which is equivalent to further squeezing and tearing the capillaries on the seminal vesicle wall, which will aggravate the rupture of capillaries and the bleeding, and the hematospermia will be more obvious. Therefore, patients with seminal vesiculitis should absolutely abstain from sex when the inflammation is severe, accompanied by hematospermia or pain during ejaculation, until the hematospermia disappears. It is not recommended to continue having sexual intercourse in the presence of hematospermia.

What are the dangers of seminal vesiculitis?

1. Male infertility. In addition to congenital abnormal development of the sperm vesicle, there are also narrow or obstructed ejaculatory ducts leading to oligospermia and asthenospermia. Long-term chronic seminal vesiculitis causes atrophy of the seminal vesicle, which seriously reduces its function and reduces fertility. Some patients also have chronic epididymitis, which affects sperm output. According to domestic statistics, seminal vesicle cysts combined with infertility account for 6.8%.

2. Dysuria. This is caused by the cyst pressing the bladder neck and posterior urethra. The degree of dysuria is related to the size and location of the cyst. According to domestic reports, 9.1% of dysuria is caused by seminal vesicle cysts. When the cyst capacity reaches 400~, patients will have bladder irritation symptoms such as frequent urination and urgency.

3. Hematospermia. The appearance of semen is pink, dark red or brown, which can last for several years, and there is usually no pain during ejaculation. It is more common in 22-24 year olds, and hematospermia is the first symptom and accounts for about 40% of the visits. For patients with cysts and seminal vesicle stones, small stones are often discharged when bloody semen is discharged.

4. Hematuria. Patients may present with hematuria throughout the entire process, or at the beginning or at the end, especially the initial hematuria after ejaculation.

How to prevent seminal vesiculitis

1. Avoid smoking and drinking

Avoid smoking, drinking, and spicy food.

2. Pay attention to your sex life

Regulate your sex life, avoid frequent masturbation, and pay attention to sexual hygiene to prevent excessive congestion of the prostate and infection of the reproductive organs.

3. Drink plenty of water

Drink plenty of water and do not hold urine to keep the urinary tract unobstructed and facilitate the discharge of prostate secretions.

4. Develop good living habits

Pay attention to your daily life, develop good living habits, avoid excessive fatigue, prevent colds, and do effective physical exercise.

5. Insist on taking a sitz bath

For patients with chronic prostatitis who have been cured, they should also take a hot water sitz bath every night to improve blood circulation to the prostate and prevent recurrence of inflammation.

6. Actively treat related diseases

Acute genitourinary infections, such as acute prostatitis, acute epididymitis, acute seminal vesiculitis, etc., should be treated actively and thoroughly to prevent them from turning into chronic prostatitis.