Prostatic hyperplasia and prostatitis can be differentiated from medical history, symptoms and test results.
1. Medical history: men who are over 50 years old, often drink and stay up late, sit for a long time or lack of exercise are prone to prostate hyperplasia; irregular sex life, bacterial infection of the prostate, perineum compression and unhealthy lifestyle habits are prone to prostatitis.
2. Examination results: patients with prostate hyperplasia need to do rectal fingerprinting, abdominal ultrasound, urine flow rate examination, serum prostate-specific antigen and other tests; while patients with prostatitis need to take blood routine, rectal fingerprinting, prostate fluid examination, urine routine, prostate fluid culture and other tests.
3. Symptoms: Patients with prostatic hyperplasia may experience urinary frequency, urinary urgency, urge incontinence, increased nocturia, as well as symptoms such as urinary diversion, dysuria, waiting to urinate, and urinary dribbling.
Prostatitis need to judge the specific symptoms according to the type of prostatitis, if acute bacterial prostatitis will have frequent urination, urinary urgency, urethral purulent discharge or urinary dribbling, and fever and chills, fatigue, nausea and vomiting, etc.; and chronic prostatitis systemic symptoms are not obvious, the patient is more often manifested in the pelvic region pain, waiting to urinate, urination, urinary incontinence, urinary urgency, libido, erectile dysfunction and so on.
Prostatic hyperplasia and prostatitis can also be identified in other ways, it is recommended that patients with prostate discomfort, timely medical treatment, the doctor will be based on the patient’s clinical manifestations and results of the examination to distinguish between prostatic hyperplasia or prostatitis, and then comply with the doctor’s instructions for treatment.