The causes of prostatitis "always lie on the surface" of men's everyday life, and very rarely the disease occurs due to serious internal pathologies. Most often, the cause of prostatitis is a banal genitourinary infection, which appeared as a result of multiple sexual intercourse and non-compliance with basic hygiene rules.
Prostatitis in men is an inflammation of the prostate. It is accompanied by many unpleasant subjective sensations and often disrupts the quality of life of a man. Prevention has always been the most effective way to treat any disease, but to properly prevent and treat prostate inflammation, you need to know what causes it.
Frequency of occurrence
According to statistics, prostatitis in men is one of the most common urological diseases. It occurs in men at a young age and in older people. According to a number of observations, this disease appears at least once in 30% of men 30-40 years old, in 40% - at the age of 40-50 years, and in 50% - over 50 years old.
In recent years, for a number of reasons, the following trend has been observed: prostatitis begins to occur at a younger age. It is often he who causes male infertility.
The course of the disease
The clinical picture of prostatitis in men is different, it depends on the initial state of health in general and on the immune system in particular, as well as on individual characteristics and lifestyle. The disease can develop asymptomatically for a long time at a young age, but in the end it will always manifest itself as difficulty in urinating, sexual disorders or infertility.
There are two main forms of prostatitis:
- Infectious.
- Congestive (non-infectious).
Based on this classification, all causes of development of prostatitis can also be divided into two groups: those that form a focus of infection in the small pelvis and impede blood and lymph circulation in the prostate.
Factors that cause acute inflammation
The acute process in humans is clinically more pronounced, the symptoms develop suddenly and cause the most unpleasant subjective sensations. Often it is accompanied by the appearance of high body temperature (38-39 ° degrees).
The most common causes of a pathological condition of this nature can be genitourinary infection in the form of cystitis, pyelonephritis, urethritis, as well as sexually transmitted diseases (especially in young people).
The most important causative agents of the acute process:
- Escherichia and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
- Klebsiella.
- Protea.
- Enterococci.
- Staphylococcus aureus.
- Trichomonas.
- Gonorrhea.
Pathogenic intestinal bacteria enter the prostate through the urethra and through the rectum. In addition, these pathogens can be transmitted from partner to partner during sexual contact, and to the question whether prostatitis is transmitted sexually, one can answer that it is not the disease itself that is transmitted, butits pathogens.
What causes chronic inflammation?
The causes of the development of prostatitis in its chronic form can also be of infectious origin. But these are pathogens of another type, they cause an asymptomatic, sluggish disease with a gloomy clinical picture. The temperature in chronic prostatitis is most often normal, rarely constant subfebrile, not exceeding 37. 5 degrees. As a rule, unpleasant symptoms bother men during an exacerbation of the disease.
The main reason for the transition from the acute form of the disease to the chronic form is improper treatment or its complete absence.
The characteristic causes of prostatitis in its chronic form are:
- Mycoplasmas.
- Chlamydia.
- Ureaplasma.
- Cytomegalovirus.
- Candidiasis.
Sometimes bacteria or viruses enter the prostate along with blood flow from other organs affected by the inflammatory process. And then this disease can occur due to tonsillitis, bronchitis, sinusitis or even caries.
Congestive prostatitis is most often chronic. The reasons for its appearance are provoked:
- Sedentary lifestyle.
- Prostate injury.
- Constipation.
- Sedentary work (especially cross-legged work).
- Regular hypothermia or overheating of the pelvic region.
- Features of the anatomical structure of the prostate and urethra.
- Frequent retention of urination.
- Bad habits (alcohol, tobacco).
- Irregular sex life.
Separately, it should be said that the development of prostatitis can provoke masturbation. In men, onanism weakens the tone of the muscles of the prostate. As a result, it becomes flabby and atonic, which clinically manifests as congestive prostatitis.
Masturbation also causes frequent flushing of blood in the prostate area and, as a result, congestion in it. Mechanical trauma to the foreskin and glans can lead to the development of balanoposthitis. In this case, a direct path to the prostate through the urethra opens up for bacteria.
It is possible to choose an adequate treatment for prostatitis only when the causes that caused it are established.