Natural Treatment for Prostatitis
Prostatitis is a condition that is defined by pain and inflammation in the male prostate gland.To get more news about home remedies for chronic prostatitis, you can visit our official website.
A bacterial or fungal infection frequently causes it, but it’s not usually considered a contagious condition that can be passed to a sexual partner. In rare cases, it can be caused by a sexually transmitted disease.
While prostatitis can be uncomfortable, it is not usually a severe disease. Unpredictable episodes of pain and discomfort often characterize it.Sometimes an infection elsewhere in the body can migrate to the prostate and cause pain.
Urinary tract infection (UTI) is common and can cause an inflammatory reaction within the prostate and additional symptoms. Conversely, a bacterial infection in the prostate can initiate or exacerbate a UTI.
Types of Prostatitis
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has classified prostatitis into four categories as follows:
1. Acute bacterial prostatitis
2. Chronic bacterial prostatitis
3. Chronic nonbacterial prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome. (CPPS)
4. Asymptomatic inflammatory prostatitis
This characterization by the NIH is, in my opinion, outdated and inconclusive. It fails to address the very real situation where chronic prostatitis results from a fungal infiltration by either of the fungal entities C. albicans or C. glabrata.
A prostatitis diagnosis should not be ruled out simply because there is no defined classification from the NIH. The category of CPPS allows clinicians a “catch-all” diagnosis when testing does not explicitly identify a bacterial source.
This lack of understanding of the prevalence of fungal prostate infections in the urology community leads to an inability to treat prostatitis associated with candida ( C. albicans) infections because there is little in the current literature that supports it.
CPPS is diagnosed by a history of chronic pelvic pain without a documented infection for at least 3 months within the previous 6 months. All instances of prostatitis involve pain to some degree. Thus, the diagnosis is often subjective and not defined by a specific medical test.
Simply diagnosing a man with CPPS may absolve the urologist from further investigation of the problem’s source. This is, in my opinion, a serious consequence of ignoring the obvious.
In most cases, patients with a prostate infection experience urinary urgency, frequency, and pain, all of which significantly impact life quality. A recent study of over 500 primary care physicians found that more than half were not familiar with prostatitis’s various manifestations and had little knowledge of how to approach treatment.
Accordingly, patients are often misdiagnosed and receive ineffective treatment. Typically, the condition is poorly treated, usually with antibiotics that have little efficacy against it, especially if the infection source is fungal.
For some practitioners, an indication of any kind of prostatitis is a signal to prescribe a strong antibiotic, which may or may not help. A fungal infection in the prostate can be exacerbated by an antibiotic that disrupts beneficial bacteria making the condition more severe.
Many physicians are not familiar with prostatitis. Patients who present with prostate pain or other prostate symptoms are often treated with strong antibiotics such as Cipro without actually testing and isolating a bacterial infection.
Considering some of Cipro’s severe side effects, my belief is that its use should be limited to cases with positive evidence of a prostatic bacterial infection sensitive to this drug class. Unfortunately, this is not always the case, and the ease of writing a script often wins.
Urologists rarely use a time-honored technique to “milk the prostate” with prostate massage. Such massage (generally not considered in the mainstream urology view) is done through the rectal passage. It stimulates the release of prostatic fluid, and the expressed fluid can be tested subsequently for bacterial and/or fungal presence.As an added benefit, prostate massage can help open clogged channels in the prostate and thus reduce inflammation.
Most men with chronic nonbacterial prostatitis may either have pelvic floor muscle disorders or a fungal prostate infiltration contributing to their pain. Prostate massage can help treat pelvic floor disorders by improving muscle tone. This is especially true for men who do not respond to medical treatment with antibiotic therapy.