Cystitis is inflammation of the bladder, which has damage and changes in urine tests.Most often, cystitis is the cause of infection.
Characteristics of cystitis in men
Men suffer much less often in cystitis than women.After all, the male urethra is long and narrow.
Men's cystitis is often caused by the problems of the prostate gland (inflammation, tumor), which are distributed and narrowed by urethral infection (strict), kidney disease (kidney, pyelonephritis).Therefore, it is believed that in men, cystitis is a more serious disease than a woman.The disease is more difficult and requires a mandatory visit to the urologist.The pathogens of infectious cystitis are most often bacteria, less frequently viruses and fungus.
Symptoms of inflammation of the bladder
Symptoms of cystitis are associated with symptoms of uretritis in men:
- increased urination several times per hour;
- Distribution of urine in small parts, the feeling that urine did not come completely;
- rubber and pain during urination in the lumbar and penis;
- It is difficult to urinate, it is difficult for a person to start with urination;
- Color change, accumulation of urine (sometimes urine appears with blood or pus);
- Painful pain in the lower abdomen, sometimes pain can be given to the rectum, pain at the back of the back is possible;
- Body temperature, chills, and weakness may increase.
If the life of blood clots or blood appears in the urine or the urine has become dark red, you should contact a urologist urgently.This is a very serious symptom.
Causes of cystitis
The appearance of cystitis in men provokes:
- Penetration of infection of the kidneys (decreasing) or urethra (ascending);
- Incomplete emptying of the bladder (due to growth of prostate or narrowing of the urethra);
- Recent urological manipulations (catheterization of bladder);
- Frequent changes in the sexual partner (gonorrhea, chlamydia and other sexually acquired sexually obtaining the risk of obtaining diseases, which in turn increases the risk of cystitis);
- Reducing immunity, especially in people with elderly people or diabetes.
Acute, chronic, bleeding cystitis
Chronic cystitisIn men, this occurs in insufficient or inadequate treatment of acute cystitis.If you do not remove the provocation factor for the first disease and do not get rid of the bladder infection, the process will go deeper.The symptoms of chronic cystitis are similar in the acute form of the disease, but to less prominent symptoms.Chronic cystitis is exacerbated twice or several times a year.A person with chronic cystitis must perform a comprehensive examination of a urologist in order to avoid exhausting more serious illnesses, such as oncology.
Bleeding cystitis -This is the inflammation of the blistering mucosa membrane that is released by blood in the urine.In men, bleeding cystitis occurs quite often, especially in those who suffer from prostate adenoma.The urine of such cystitis will be dark red.Changing the color of the urine to the dark red-the opportunity to go to the doctor urgently.If bleeding cystitis is not treated for a long time, iron deficiency anemia develops because red blood cells and hemoglobin are lost in the urine.
Treatment of cystitis
If a person suffers from sick cystitis, special attention should be paid to both the patient and the doctor.You will probably need a comprehensive treatment of the entire geniturinary system.Above all, a urologist consultation is needed to survey and control.After the inspection, the specialist requires the necessary tests and research (necessarily analysis of ultrasound examination of the urine and urinary tract).Based on the data obtained, the urologist diagnoses, explores the cause and provokes the factor in each case.
It should be noted that antibiotics are most often prescribed in the treatment of cystitis.These drugs should be taken exactly as the doctor prescribes.It is important not to break the treatment process, even if the symptoms of the disease have disappeared and good.Men's cystitis is often analgesic and drugs that relieve inflammation to relieve the condition.That is, it becomes easier at the beginning of treatment.
IMPORTANT Tip: When treating cystitis, it is better to refrain from sexual activity.
In the case of cystitis, men are recommended to eat more vitamin -rich vegetable food.Fatty, spicy, fried foods should be excluded.The city doctor advises you to drink a lot or little, as it is separately in each case.