What is Prostatitis?

The prostate is a small organ located at the base of the bladder and surrounds the urethra, the tube that empties the bladder through the penis. He sits in front of the rectum and the back of the body can be felt during rectal examination by a professional health care. Prostate Its purpose is to help with the male reproductive system.

It makes up 70% of the fluid that is ejaculated during intercourse, a mixture of secretions with semen produced in the testes. The prostate also contracts during ejaculation to prevent retrograde (or backward) the flow of semen into the bladder. Because of its location, the symptoms of prostate problems tend to be associated with the bladder and may include an urgent need to urinate, frequent urination, burning urination (dysuria), poor urine flow, or inability to start running urine.

What is prostatitis?

Prostatitis is the general term used to describe the prostate inflammation (-itis). Because the term is so general, it is not adequately describe the deficiencies that may be associated with inflammation of the prostate.

Types of Prostatitis

Acute bacterial prostatitis an infection of the prostate, often caused by some of the same bacteria that cause infections of the bladder.

Chronic bacterial prostatitis is a rare disease is a bacterial infection during the prostate. Chronic bacterial prostatitis usually causes no symptoms, but sometimes the poor quality of infection may burst and be associated with a bladder infection.

Chronic prostatitis without infection, which is also known as chronic pelvic pain syndrome, a condition that the applicant is a pelvic pain, testicular or rectal, with no evidence of infection of the bladder. May have difficulty in urination or painful ejaculation and erectile dysfunction.

Asymptomatic inflammatory prostatitis is exactly the image name. Not symptoms. cause inflammation in asymptomatic prostatitis is not well understood.