How to protect prostate health

Don't let it be oppressed and congested for a long time, don't let metabolic waste accumulate, and don't carry it if there is a small problem.

Two years ago, I followed a teacher in the urology clinic and met a 27-year-old young man who was engaged in game development. He worked on the online version for three months in a row. His butt was glued to the chair for 14 hours a day, and he held back his urge to urinate while he finished typing the code. Finally, he was so painful that he couldn't straighten his back in the middle of the night and was sent to the hospital by a colleague. He was diagnosed with acute bacterial prostatitis, which took him a week to recover. Later, he said that he had always thought that prostate problems were only suffered by middle-aged and elderly people, but he didn't know that young people are also affected by it.

Patients often ask the first thing they ask when they sit down, doctor, can I never eat spicy food or drink alcohol again? In fact, there is no absolute standard for this matter. In clinical practice, we have also encountered an uncle from Chongqing who eats spicy food all the time. His prostate indicators are all normal in his fifties. On the contrary, some people with chronic inflammation will become so bloated the next day after eating half a plate of butter hot pot that they can't sit still. Whether you should avoid taboos or not depends entirely on your own body reaction. Don't blindly follow other people's taboo lists, which will only increase unnecessary anxiety.

Speaking of which, the prostate is like a small walnut hidden in your pelvic cavity. It is just in front of the rectum and under the bladder. When you sit for a long time, the weight of your entire upper body is pressed on it. Riding a narrow and hard road bicycle seat directly puts pressure on it. Over time, it will definitely become edema and congestion, just like your hand will become numb and swollen after being pressed for a long time. So sitting for forty to fifty minutes, getting up to get a glass of water, and walking in the corridor for two minutes is much more useful than buying hundreds of yuan of prostate maintenance tea or health care cushions.

There are also two particularly extreme opinions on the Internet. One is that "suppressing semen to nourish the kidneys" and try not to discharge semen, and the other is that "high-frequency ejection of semen can detoxify the prostate." Both of these are quite deceptive. What our teachers usually tell patients the most is that there is no unified standard answer for the frequency of ejaculation. If you are in your 20s or 30s, it should be 2-3 times a week, and if you are in your 40s or 50s, once every half month. As long as you don’t have lower abdominal distension or backache and fatigue after the ejaculation, it will be no problem. Holding back ejaculation or pushing too hard will continue to congest the prostate, which can easily induce inflammation. There are also those online celebrity prostate massagers that are very popular. It is really important not to buy them blindly. If you press them with the wrong strength and position, you will damage the glands. If you really want to do prostate massage, you have to go to a regular hospital to find a doctor.

By the way, men over 40 years old really don’t have to worry about it. A PSA (prostate specific antigen) check-up every year only costs tens of dollars. Last year, there was a 54-year-old patient who had been urinating frequently for almost two years. He always thought it was a normal symptom of old age. He did not come to check until he had difficulty urinating. He was already in the middle stage of prostate cancer. If he had been diagnosed a year earlier, he would not have suffered such a serious crime.

In fact, to put it bluntly, the prostate is just an ordinary body organ. Don’t deliberately mess with it. If you have minor problems such as frequent urination, bloating, or painful urination, go to a regular hospital doctor immediately. Don’t frighten yourself by blindly searching Baidu. Most people will not encounter serious prostate problems in their lives.