Prostatitis is generally referred to as inflammation that causes tissue edema and covers the man's prostate gland, located just below the bladder. Treatment of prostatitis today is done through many modern methods, including antibiotic therapy, physical therapy, hirudotherapy, herbal medicine, immune-correcting therapy, prostate massage, and lifestyle correction.
When a patient is admitted to a medical institution, the doctor examines the patient for the reasons that caused prostatitis. Treatment of the disease will be prescribed precisely based on the factors that contributed to the onset of the disease.
Treatment of prostatitis begins with a diagnosis of the disease, which first includes an interview with a urologist. Then the doctor proceeds to examine the abdomen and genitals of the patient, palpates the prostate gland with a finger, inserting it into the rectum. During this exam, the doctor can diagnose enlargement, swelling, and tenderness of the prostate gland.
After the rectal exam, the urologist instructs the patient to donate semen, urine, and prostate secretions. These tests allow you to judge the presence or absence of signs of infection. Sometimes semen culture is required.
The appointment of urodynamic studies will allow the doctor to understand how severe is the effect of the disease on the urination process.
Transrectal ultrasound and ultrasound of the kidneys and bladder allow the urologist to judge the volume and structure of the prostate gland, the volume of residual urine, the presence of a tumor or stones in the bladder, the presence of ablood clot or stones in the lower third of the ureter.
Based on previous analyzes and studies, the urologist prescribes a therapy for such an insidious and hardly curable disease as prostatitis. Treatment of prostatitis will give positive results only if it is complex and selected by a competent doctor.
Antibacterial treatment of prostatitis
Due to the fact that inflammation of the prostate gland is often infectious in nature, doctors prescribe the treatment of prostatitis as an antibacterial therapy. The result of treatment will be positive only if the urologist selects the appropriate therapy and the patient strictly adheres to the prescribed therapy. It should be remembered that the started course of antibiotic therapy cannot be stopped; in this way, it is possible to harm not only the diseased organ, but also the entire body as a whole.
The patient should inform the doctor about any changes, sometimes not even significant, in her body. If the patient felt absolutely no changes for 2-3 days of treatment, then the doctor should replace the antibiotic with another, but not cancel it.
The most commonly prescribed drugs for treatment are broad-spectrum: penicillins.
In addition, agents from the group of fluoroquinolones are widely used by modern medicine. Microbes do not develop resistance to these drugs; This is one of the most important qualities of the group of these antibiotics.
In addition, many doctors prescribe drugs from the tetracycline group for treatment.
Sometimes such effective new generation drugs are used. They should only be used after consulting a doctor.
The antibacterial treatment of prostatitis in patients with chronic prostatitis lasts about a month and a half. In advanced cases, prostatitis treatment lasts for up to 16 weeks. Occasionally, during antibiotic therapy, the patient develops intestinal dysbiosis. In this regard, the patient is prescribed the intake of drugs that restore the intestinal microflora.
The dose and dosage regimen are prescribed by the urologist in each case individually.
Physiotherapy activities
The treatment of prostatitis by physiotherapy consists of the use of several methods, the main of which are ultrasound, laser therapy, electrical stimulation, magnetotherapy, microwave therapy, UHF, galvanization, medicinal electrophoresis, darsonvalization, therapeutic microclysters, baths, mud procedures.
Ultrasound is used as high frequency waves that a person cannot hear.
Laser therapy is a fairly common and almost painless method. It is the effect of laser rays on the tissues of a diseased organ or on the reflexogenic areas.
Treatment of prostatitis with electrical stimulation is the effect of an electrical impulse current that causes muscle contractions in an organ. Electrical stimulation is subdivided into rectal, perineal, and urethral.
Magnetotherapy is a treatment for prostatitis by exposure to a constant and alternating low frequency magnetic field in the tissues of the affected organ.
Microwave therapy is the effect of a high frequency electromagnetic field on affected tissues.
UHF is a complex of therapeutic measures using capacitor plates connected to tissues.
Galvanizing is a method of treatment by supplying a low current of direct current and low voltage.
Medicinal electrophoresis is a simultaneous effect on the tissues of a low-power direct current and special drugs introduced into the tissue with its help. The current increases the ionic activity in the tissues, while the pharmacological effect of the drugs occurs.
Darsonvalization is a treatment method using a high-frequency, low-power pulse of current that is rapidly extinguished with high voltage.
Medical microclysters - enemas, for which various infusions and decoctions of herbs are used.
The baths that are used to treat the disease are prescribed for general or local sedentary lifestyle. During the baths different medicinal liquids of different temperatures are used.
Mud procedures: the use of healing mud. Treatments may include the use of external applications of mud or insertion of mud swabs into the anus.
Hirudotherapy
Leeches are a wonderful gift from nature to humanity. With the help of these living things, many diseases can be cured, including prostatitis. Treatment of prostatitis with leeches is carried out according to the following scheme: leeches are placed at points located 3 cm from the anus (anus), and the configuration should resemble the letter "X". The center of the letter is the anus, the ends of the letter are the location of the leeches.
A slightly different treatment method is also widely used: leaving about 2 cm in each direction from the midline of the perineum, leeches are installed. It is not recommended to put leeches directly into the crotch seam. The course is about 4-5 treatment procedures. In one session 4 leeches are used. After each session, take a 5-6 day break.
Herbal Medicine
Phytotherapy is a complex of therapeutic measures with medicinal tinctures, decoctions, juices, infusions based on medicinal plants. Some of these medications must be taken internally, while others are used externally, injected into the urethra. Herbal medicine is an additional treatment that helps the body to cope more quickly with the disease.
The bark, seeds, roots, shoots and rhizomes of plants are generally used to make decoctions, for infusions: flowers, leaves, grass and stems. There are a large number of recipes for preparing medicines.
One of the most popular recipes is an infusion of birch buds and oats mixed with an infusion of rosehip (1: 1), which is drunk half a glass 1 or 2 times a day.
Horse chestnut husk tincture (pour 250 ml of 25 g of finely chopped husk, insist in the dark for 10 days, shaking occasionally). After that, strain the tincture, take 30 drops 3 times a day.
Squeeze the parsley and mix with the honey (1: 1), consume 3 times a day, 2 tablespoons. spoons
Immunocorrective treatment of prostatitis
The treatment of prostatitis also consists of increasing immunity and activating the body's defenses. In this case, doctors prescribe immunocorrective therapy. It includes the intake by the patient of various vitamins, immunomodulators, biostimulants, herbal remedies and other means.
The use of aphala by patients with chronic prostatitis, whose treatment was carried out in a comprehensive manner, increases the effectiveness of the therapy and contributes to a longer preservation of the results obtained. The drug is well tolerated and has no contraindications. It can be combined with any other therapy. Afala is indicated for patients with category II and III A chronic prostatitis from the first day of treatment.
Prostate massage
Treating prostatitis with a prostate massage is an unpleasant but very effective way to cure the disease. The massage is performed by an experienced physician. First, with the help of a gloved index finger, he feels the prostate gland, trying to fix its parameters, the degree of pain, the ratio of the right and left lobes of the gland, and also to examine the quality of mucus in the rectum. After that, the doctor directly begins the massage procedure itself.
Lifestyle correction
To avoid stagnation of blood in the prostate gland, the patient must move a lot, walk, play sports, etc.
The appearance of prostatitis is often provoked by a sedentary lifestyle, sedentary work, rare sexual intercourse. They cause blood congestion in the prostate gland. In this situation, for a therapeutic purpose, the patient is prescribed physical activity (feasible), therapeutic gymnastics, walking in the open air, special diet, etc.
Therefore, complex treatment of patients with chronic prostatitis should include:
- antibiotic therapy (only in patients with chronic prostatitis of an infectious nature, even latent);
- symptomatic treatment to eliminate the main manifestations of the disease;
- Pathogenic therapy aimed at restoring microcirculation in the prostate, restoring the drainage of the prostate glands along the excretory ducts, normalizing urination, stabilizing the immune and hormonal systems, preventing excessive formation of fibrous tissue.
There are many signs that indicate to a patient that prostatitis has "settled" on her body. Treatment of this ailment is very complex and long, giving positive results only if the patient strictly observes all the urologist's prescriptions.