What’s going on with the puffy eyes of an enlarged prostate?

Enlarged prostate is generally not associated with puffy eyes. Further examination is recommended, and edema of the eyes may be due to physiological reasons, inflammation, and heart and kidney diseases. 1. Enlarged prostate: it can be seen in prostatitis as well as prostate enlargement in middle-aged and elderly men, but there is generally no correlation between enlarged prostate and puffy eyes. 2. Physiological factors: If the sleep is not good or the pillow is too low, it may cause physiological eye edema, which does not need special treatment and can subside by itself. 3. Inflammatory factors: If there is acute inflammation of the eyelids, eyelid trauma or blepharitis, dacryocystitis and other periocular inflammation, it is also easy to appear eye edema and other inflammatory manifestations of redness, swelling, heat and pain. 4. Heart, kidney disease: In addition, if accompanied by heart disease such as heart failure and kidney disease such as nephritis, also due to increased circulating venous pressure, inflammatory exudation and other mechanisms lead to the emergence of ocular edema. In summary therefore, prostate hypertrophy is generally not related to eye swelling, eye swelling may also be caused by other factors. Patients are advised to go to regular hospitals for further examination and treatment under the guidance of doctors.