How big is the prostate considered enlarged?

Another name for prostate hypertrophy is prostate hyperplasia. The more obvious symptoms are pain caused by bladder irritation and frequent urination. Many people don't know how much prostate hypertrophy is considered. In fact, for such problems, as long as there is discomfort in the bladder or urethra, it should be checked and treated in time.

Prostatic hypertrophy is also called prostatic hyperplasia. The symptoms are mainly manifested in two groups, one is bladder irritation symptoms; the other is obstructive symptoms caused by the obstruction of the urinary tract by the hypertrophic prostate. Bladder irritation symptoms: frequent urination, urgency, increased nocturia and urgency incontinence. Frequent urination is an early sign of prostatic hyperplasia, especially the increase in nocturia is more clinically significant. The disease has three main characteristics: enlarged prostate volume; bladder outlet obstruction; lower urinary tract symptoms such as difficulty urinating, frequent urination, and urgency. If symptoms are found, it is recommended to go to the hospital for examination and treatment in time. To avoid delaying the disease and affecting health.

An enlarged prostate is not dangerous in itself, but it can cause three main problems.

First, if your bladder never empties safely, the accumulated urine can become infected (see Cystitis in Men).

Second, when the outflow of urine is blocked, the pressure inside the bladder increases, and the kidneys and ureters (the tubes that carry urine from the kidneys to the bladder) are affected. This can lead to a kidney infection (see acute pyelonephritis).

Finally, if severe, untreated prostate enlargement occurs, your bladder muscles may not be able to overcome the resistance to urine flow and may suddenly or gradually stop functioning.

Symptoms

1. Symptoms of prostatic hyperplasia and hypertrophy caused by bladder irritation: mainly frequent urination, urgency, increased nocturia and urge urinary incontinence.

Frequent urination is an early sign of prostatic hyperplasia, especially the increase in nocturnal urination, which is more clinically significant. Generally speaking, the number of nocturnal urinations is often parallel to the severity of prostatic hyperplasia. When an elderly person who used to be unable to get up at night urinates 1-2 times at night, it often reflects the onset of early obstruction, and when it develops from 2 times a night to 4-5 times a night or even more, it indicates that the disease is getting worse.

2. Symptoms of prostatic hyperplasia and hypertrophy causing urination obstruction: Mainly due to prostatic hyperplasia blocking the urinary tract.

The frequency of urination increases significantly: Whether during the day or at night, the frequency of urination increases more than usual, far exceeding the normal situation of 3 to 4 times during the day and 1 to 2 times at night. The urination time interval is short, and there is a constant urge to urinate.

Difficulty in urination, always uncomfortable: When you feel the urge to urinate, you have to stand in the toilet and wait for a while before the urine comes out "slowly". The urine stream becomes thinner, the discharge is weak, and the range is not far. Sometimes it even drips out from the urethra in a line-like manner.

Urinary incontinence: Urine flows out uncontrollably during sleep at night. In severe cases, this symptom may also occur during the day.

Comprehensive analysis of the symptoms of prostate hyperplasia

1. Weak urination, thin urine stream and dribbling urine: Because the enlarged prostate gland presses the urethra and causes the urine stream to become thin, the patient has to use more force to overcome resistance when urinating. As the disease progresses, symptoms such as interrupted urination and dribbling after urination may also occur.

2. Urinary retention: In patients with advanced prostatic hyperplasia, when the obstruction is severe, acute urinary retention may occur due to the inability to excrete urine due to cold, drinking, holding urine for too long or infection.

3. Hematuria: Blood in the urine is called hematuria, also known as hematuria. Normally, there are no red blood cells in urine. In medicine, after the patient's urine is centrifuged and precipitated, it is examined under a microscope. If there are more than 5 red blood cells in each high-power field of view, it is called hematuria.

4. Acute urinary tract infection: Long-term bladder neck obstruction can easily cause acute urinary tract infection, which is also a more serious problem.

5. Hydronephrosis, renal insufficiency, clinical azotemia, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, anemia, etc. These problems often occur in the elderly who have a certain mental stress. This situation can generally be prevented if the patient relaxes.

6. Abnormal urination: In the early stage, due to the stimulation and compression of the posterior urethra and bladder neck by the hypertrophy of the prostate, this problem is more common, which causes frequent urination and urgency. If this happens, timely treatment is required. In addition, there will be urgency to urinate, but it cannot be discharged quickly, urination is not as smooth as before, the time is long, there is a feeling of incomplete urination, and difficulty in urination, which are also common signs of prostatic hypertrophy.