Jul
14
INFECTIOUS AND NONINFECTIOUS PROSTATITIS
July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment
INFECTIOUS AND
NONINFECTIOUS
PROSTATITIS
Prostatitis is an inflammation of the prostate gland and it is one of the most common of men’s diseases keflex tape . There is no age limit here — prostatitis attacks any man from teenager to grandfather in his nineties celebrex half life .
How do you know if you have it? You’ll be absolutely certain that something is wrong inderal for cats . Prostatitis is not subtle omeprazole and irritability . A case of acute prostatitis may bring on a sudden fever, chills, nausea and vomiting besides urgency of urination, hesitancy, burning pain during urination and even pus or blood in the urine apoe quinapril .
Most family physicians who diagnose acute prostatitis will suggest the patient go to a specialist, the urologist fosamax tumors .
Prostatitis can be caused by infection, irritation and congestion or a combination of these problems geodon msds . Many urologists will tell you that sometimes there is no apparent cause of the condition viagra teens teenager .
This ailment does respond well to treatment, even if it is a bit slow sometimes menopause high testosterone .
The infectious type of prostatitis results from some microorganism or bacteria that has invaded the prostate jitters from celexa . With its tough outer shell, the prostate is hard to get into dipyridamole allergic reaction . But it can be infected through the bloodstream, the lymph system, and the urine motrin package insert .
A lot of the infections come from bacteria from the colon prilosec long . However, antibiotics now can be used to knock out this type of infection before it gets serious effexor side effects headaches .
Bacteria can get into the prostate from sexual contact amoxicillin price overnight . The yeast infections as well as gonorrhea can be sexually transmitted order tetracycline . This danger is just another reason to be safe in your sexual life, wear a condom evanescence lithium guitar tab .
Some people can develop prostatitis simply by eating or drinking certain foods or beverages drug-herb interraction metoprolol aconite . On the avoidance list for some people are coffee, gin, red wine and Scotch whiskey arv efavirenz . Aromatic oils are used to flavor these drinks and that is what irritates the prostate and sets it to complaining leg lipitor pain .
We mentioned gonorrhea as one problem ibuprofen and benedryl . At one time it was the most prevalent infection of the male urogenital tract floxin otic . But now with the better antibiotics, this sexually transmitted social disease can usually be cured quickly benadryl prednisone interactino . A fast cure has the added benefit of stopping the infection before it can travel to the prostate avapro micardis .
Sometimes abscesses do develop in the prostate from gonorrhea unichem laboratories rimonabant conterfiet . This is often because the man has an antibiotic resistant strain or did not get prompt enough treatment to kill off the disease quickly effexor side affects uses . The abscesses result in the same usual symptoms of acute prostatitis evista and respiratory infections .
A urine sample usually shows up minute amounts of the prostate emissions and microscopic examination of the emissions will help the doctor determine what bacteria have made their attack and that will determine what treatment is prescribed does metformin help in getting pregnant . Most prostatitis clears up quickly with the proper medication 3v lithium fishing battery .
Jul
7
HOW TO COPE WITH EARLY BPH. LIVING WITH BPH. Early Stages of an Enlarged Prostate.
July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment
HOW TO COPE
WITH EARLY BPH
Living with the early stages of an enlarged prostate isn’t all that hard:
This is true. Remember, you had BPH for eight to ten years before it caused you any problems at all. You might have had some mild symptoms for another two or three years before you realized it and found out what was causing them. Now you know.
Now is no time to panic. So these problems caused by BPH area small inconvenience, they are something you can learn to live with. The alternative is not a happy thought.
Let’s go back to our typical case history. This gentleman is the one who is sixty years old and has the three most minor of BPH symptoms: a brief hesitancy when urinating, a slower, less forceful stream, and he usually gets up once a night to urinate.
The secret here is that you know what the cause is of these minor problems, which means you can learn to manage them. You have managed a lot of things in your life, right? First the other kids in your family, then a wife, then your own kids, then that business and all the people you had under you. Compared to that, managing early BPH is a breeze.
First the worry. The experts say again and again that BPH is not cancer, has no connection with prostate cancer, does not lead to cancer and is an entirely separate ailment. So get that out of your mind.
You don’t have prostate cancer, it’s only BPH.
Urologists fight this misconception all the time and gradually they’re winning. They point out that cancer of the prostate is almost always on the outside of the prostate lobes. The enlarged prostate grows inward and outward. There is absolutely no casual relationship between the two.
Now, one more concern with prostate cancer. When surgery is needed for BPH, usually at a much later time than in a man’s fifties or early sixties, there is a finding that about ten percent of the BPH prostates will be found to have a cancer.
Remember, cancer can strike any part of the body at any time in life. It has no connection to BPH. When these cancers are found they are not in the usual places where they could be easily diagnosed during your regular BPH exams. So in reality the BPH surgery is a stroke of luck since most of these cancers are just beginning and are caught quickly so they can be eradicated more easily.
So, from here on we don’t worry about BPH causing or being tied in with prostate cancer in any way. Clear?
LIVING WITH BPH
Urologists point out that the minor symptoms of BPH, often the initial ones, may be the only troubles a man suffers with BPH for as much as ten to fifteen years. That means you shouldn’t even be thinking about or concerned with any worry about prostate surgery or other treatment now. Dump it right out of your computer memory hard disc. Why worry about something that isn’t going to happen for ten to fifteen years? You’ll have plenty of time to fret and stew about it and discuss it with your urologist when the time comes. By then some even better treatments undoubtedly will be developed.
Concentrate on today, and how to make your life pleasant and interesting and fulfilling, right now! in spite of BPH.
We know that there is no “cure” for BPH. You can’t take a pill and like a headache your BPH will just go away. It isn’t that kind of a problem. Even with our miracle modern medical cures, there is nothing even on the drawing boards that will magically cure BPH. So we practice positive thinking and forget about that and move on to areas of behavior that we can and should do something about.
Plain old fashioned horse-sense. With the decline of the horse as the basic transportation unit of Americans, not much is heard anymore about horse-sense. Too bad. Horse sense has shaken down to “common sense”, which is almost as good.
For example, it makes no sense to drink two gallons of water a day when you know you’re going to have to urinate most of that water the same day. Don’t overload your urinary system. The less you drink the less you’ll have to urinate.
Don’t carry this to extremes. The body is at least 1,259 percent water. You need water, fluids, to survive. But there is a happy medium. Some doctors say a man should drink eight, eight ounce glasses of water a day. That’s half a gallon. Actually what they mean is that the body should intake that much fluid a day: coffee, water, milk, soup, colas, juice, any fluid should count.
Many other doctors say this is much more fluid than the average man needs. Your body will tell you when it wants a drink. As a common sense living-with-BPH, start cutting down on your fluids a little at a time. You’ll be urinating less, but still enough. Talk to your urologist or doctor about this and find out what the minimum daily need is for intake fluids for a man of your size and activity. It may be much less than you suspect.
If you do manual labor in the hot sun all day, you’ll need more water than if you’re in an air-conditioned office where you work on a computer. Your doctor will be able to help you here.
TIME YOUR FLUID INTAKE
If nocturia bothers you, and you’re getting up three times a night to urinate, try limiting your fluid intake in the evening. One doctor suggested not to drink any fluids for four hours before retiring. That way your body will have processed your fluids, and passed them well before your sleeping time.
Using a modified system such as this (some men have one small drink at dinner and nothing after that) many BPH patients can cut to once their nocturnal urination. Now that is a real blessing if you can go from three risings to only one a night. This is a prime example of how you can manage your own life to reduce the interference of BPH with your normal activities.
Jul
7
BPH SYMPTOMS. WHAT CAUSES BPH?
July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment
WHAT CAUSES BPH?
No one knows what causes BPH. Just why the prostate starts to enlarge itself in the forty to fifty male years is not understood.
There are two significant factors in this mystery that have been tied down by medical research over the years. One is that a man who has been surgically or hormonally castrated, eliminating the male hormone from his body, never develops an enlarged prostate.
The other uncontested fact is that the onset of BPH is started only with the passage of time.
Castration at an early age to eliminate BPH is a totally unthinkable idea. The other alternative, death at an early age is equally ridiculous as a prevention of BPH.
Which leaves medical science still in kindergarten when it comes to determining the cause of BPH and the chances of scientifically developing a preventive drug or routine and this stops any work on a cure.
Many medical studies have been made in an effort to isolate some other common factor in BPH patients. So far all of these human factors have been ruled out: specific blood types, coronary heart disease, celibacy, hypertension, use of alcohol or tobacco, industrial and environmental conditions.
One constant has been determined: By the age of sixty years, fifty percent of all men will have, to some degree, an enlarged prostate whether or not it is bothering them. By the time American men reach their eightieth birthday, only five out of one hundred will not have BPH.
After broad studies involving Asian men, it was determined that as a group they had fewer cases of BPH and prostatic cancer. However Asian men who moved to the US for a period of time had a significantly increased rate of both BPH and prostatic cancer.
Since Asians typically have had a low cholesterol and low red meat diet, it is speculated that diet may have a larger impact on BPH and prostatic cancer than had been previously thought. With the current wave of anti-cholesterol and anti-fat foods including the campaign against red meat, American men could be experiencing a lower rate of BPH and prostatic cancer in the future.
Is a man’s sex life in any way connected with the cause of BPH or prostatic cancer? A man’s sexual life appears to have no bearing whatsoever on the development of BPH or cancer of the prostate. However, sudden surges in sexual activity, or sudden celibacy often does affect the prostate. These situations will be discussed in a later section.
SO WHAT HAPPENS TO ME NEXT?
Let’s say that you’re reading this book in the first place
because you had some questions about your general health,
or your urination, or your prostate, and after reading the
list of symptoms, bingo! you have three of the symptoms.
Let’s say that you have a hesitancy to start to urinate,
you have a noticeably reduced stream, and you’ve been getting up about three A.M. every night to urinate. What should you do next?
Pick up the phone and get an appointment with your family doctor or call a urologist. It’s time you found out just what’s going on and how serious your BPH really is.
Your next move is to have an examination by a medical professional or a specialist. Just how does a doctor examine you for possible BPH or other prostatic troubles?
Jul
7
BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA (BPH). SYMPTOMS OF AN ENLARGED PROSTATE.
July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment
SYMPTOMS OF AN ENLARGED PROSTATE
Do you have any of the symptoms of an enlarged prostate? Here is a list of those problems that relate directly to BPH. Study the list critically. Have you experienced any of them?
• A slowing of your urinary stream and its force.
• A slowness to begin urination. You say “start now,” but it may be a few seconds before your stream begins.
• A problem with stopping urination. You tighten the muscles to stop the flow or to prevent any more, but you get a series of continuing dribbles.
• A sensation that your bladder is not completely empty when it should be.
• Frequent urination. You may not notice this during the day, especially if you’re near a bathroom. But at night this is much more evident. Doctors call this nocturia, and it may get you up two, three, four times a night.
• In extreme cases, urinary retention — when you simply can’t urinate. The discomfort and pain can be tremendous.
• Nausea, dizziness, unusual sleepiness brought on if retention has caused kidney damage.
A SIMPLE TEST YOU CAN GIVE YOURSELF
Below is a chart with the symptoms listed above. Some of them are worded differently. At the top are the points to be given for each symptom and its severity. Along the left side are the symptoms.
TOTAL SCORE
POINTS 0 1 2 3 4
STREAM Normal Variable Weals Dribbling
Abdominal
VOIDING No Strain strain or re”
HESITANCY None Yes
INTERMITTENCY None Yes
BLADDER Don’t know Variable Incomplete Single Repeated
EMPTYING or Complete retention
Yee ii ,Wd .9 INCONTINENCET— =
URGE None Mild Moderate Savers
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NOCTURIA 0-1 2 3-4
DIURIA ci>llh q2-3h qt-2h ci<lh
Intermittency means that your stream starts, stops and starts again once or more before you feel empty. Incontinence means that you can’t stop urinating when you want to, or you dribble, or pass some water when you don’t want to.
Diuria, means how often your need to urinate during the day. Zero points for three hours or more and 3 points for the need to void each hour during the day.
Mark down what you think your symptoms are. If your score reaches 10 or more, you should probably see your doctor soon about the chances you have BPH.