For people suffering from prostatitis, daily care requires attention. The following methods can help you!

Prostatitis is a common male urinary system disease. For patients with prostatitis, correct care methods are particularly important.

Next, an expert in urology from Hunan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine will introduce nursing measures for prostatitis to help patients better cope with the disease and improve their quality of life.

How to care for prostatitis?

1. Drink more water . Drinking more water will lead to more urination, which will reduce the stimulation of high-concentration urine to the prostate and help the excretion of inflammatory substances.

2. Don’t hold your urine. When your bladder is full and you feel the urge to urinate, you should urinate. Holding your urine is bad for your bladder and prostate.

3. Pay attention to sexual hygiene, overcome bad sexual habits, and have regular sex life to allow prostate fluid to be discharged regularly, which plays an important role in disease treatment and can prevent prostate hyperplasia.

4. Avoid friction . Try to reduce local pressure on the perineum, do not wear tight pants, and avoid riding a bicycle or horse or straddling for a long time.

5. Quit smoking and drinking to reduce the factors that cause disease recurrence.

6. Relax more. Life stress may increase the chance of prostate hyperplasia. Clinically, when life stress is reduced, prostate symptoms will be relieved, so you should try to stay relaxed at ordinary times.

7. Taking a warm bath can relieve the tension of muscles and prostate, and relieve the discomfort. Taking a warm bath frequently is undoubtedly very beneficial for patients with prostatitis. If you use warm water to sit in the perineum 1-2 times a day, you can also get good results.

8. Keep the perineum clean. Cleaning the perineum is an important part of preventing prostatitis. In addition, it is necessary to wash the external genitalia every time you have sex.

9. Prevent cold. Do not sit on cold stones for a long time, because cold can increase the excitement of sympathetic nerves, leading to increased urethral pressure and causing reflux.

10. Adjust your lifestyle: Eat less spicy foods such as peppers and ginger, and eat more vegetables and fruits to reduce constipation. If necessary, use laxatives to help defecate to avoid repeated congestion of the prostate and bladder neck and aggravate the feeling of local distension and pain.

11. Do appropriate exercise and actively participate in physical exercise to enhance your physical fitness.

Hunan Medical Chat Special Author: Wang Wenjing, Department of Urology, Hunan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine

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(Edited by ZS)