Precautions for patients going home after prostate surgery

    The prostate enlargement is a common disease in the elderly and is a common occurrence. In addition to early and mild symptoms that can be treated with medication, transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) is the most common and effective method. The patient’s preoperative symptoms of difficulty in urination will be significantly improved after prostate electrosurgery, but some patients will have some complications, in order to reduce the occurrence of complications, the following issues should be brought to the attention of patients.  1, prostate electrosurgery is not like open surgery prostate removal, the surgery did not directly suture the wound, after the electrosurgery left the prostate fossa trauma larger, although a moment without obvious bleeding, but early prostate fossa often have a small amount of blood seepage, especially after forceful activities such as forceful defecation, cycling and other activities can appear obvious bleeding, manifesting as the discharge of carnal blood urine, even with blood clots, therefore, three months after surgery should be noted The prostate fossa will slowly be covered by the bladder mucosa after a few months, and the bleeding in the prostate fossa will be significantly reduced.  The more common reason is urethral stricture (but less than 5%), because the surgical procedure electroscope can cause urethral injury, then you should go back to the hospital as soon as possible to find a doctor for urethral expansion, there are other reasons including bladder neck contracture stricture, inflammatory edema, or the presence of residual glands, you should find a competent doctor as soon as possible.  3, TURP after surgery generally does not affect libido and sexual function, but most patients will have retrograde ejaculation, that is, the climax of sexual life, semen ejaculated into the bladder with urine, but also have pleasure, do not worry, two to three months after surgery before intercourse.