Since 2000, the golden month of October has become a month of health concern for Chinese male citizens. In recent years, the World Health Organization and other governments have begun to pay attention to men’s health, and in 2000, our government decided to designate October 28 as “Men’s Health Day” each year to show the importance of prevention and treatment of male diseases. The theme in 2001 was “Men’s Health and Civilized Families” and in 2002 was “Concern for Men’s Health, Family Planning is the Husband’s Responsibility”. “October 28, 2004 was the fifth Men’s Health Day, and the National Family Planning Commission set the theme as “Concern for Men’s Health, Improve Quality of Life. October 28, 2004 was the fifth Men’s Health Day.
This year’s October 28th was the fifth Men’s Health Day, and the National Population and Family Planning Commission set the theme for this year as “Pay attention to men’s health and improve the quality of life. The whole society has gradually integrated the care for men’s health into the overall atmosphere of the society. In recent years, various data show that the health of adult Chinese men is deteriorating, especially male-related diseases. Due to the influence of traditional concepts, people are still not sufficiently aware of male-related diseases, coupled with inconvenient access to medical care and other factors, the diagnosis and treatment rate of male diseases is generally low, and men’s health has long not received widespread attention from society as a whole, including male citizens.
The “face” of a man should not be!
The 35-year-old Mr. Xu is a regional manager of a foreign company, found himself more and more uninterested in sexual life in the past two years, I think it may be related to the work pressure, but also did not care, but the situation is getting more and more serious, every time when the room often appears incontinent, which is very distressed, but considering that he is the manager of the company, because of this disease to the hospital if you meet acquaintances very humiliating. So he bought some private aphrodisiac, kidney drugs, the results are not helpful. The doctor did not find the cause of the disease after examination, and prescribed 2 boxes of Viagra. Recently, Mr. Xu felt a significant loss of vision, so he went to the ophthalmology department, and the ophthalmologist suspected that it might be due to a pituitary tumor in the skull. Finally Mr. Xu was transferred to neurosurgery, and after surgery to remove the pituitary tumor, the above condition improved significantly.
Mr. Xu’s experience is a very typical one for male pituitary tumor patients.
Pituitary tumors are relatively common benign intracranial tumors, accounting for about 10% of intracranial tumors, and their incidence has been on the rise in recent years, with a significantly higher incidence in women than in men. Since pituitary gland is the “command” of endocrine glands in the body, pituitary tumor causes various endocrine symptoms, such as menopause, irregular menstruation, reduced menstrual flow, lactation, infertility, headache, dizziness, low libido, impotence, gynecomastia, pale skin, no beard or beard loss, etc. If growth hormone is increased, it may manifest as gigantism, gigantism, and gigantism. If growth hormone is increased, it will show up as gigantism, obvious enlargement of hands, feet and face, rough skin and coarse voice; if adrenocorticotropic hormone is increased, it will show up as obesity, face like full moon, back like buffalo and purple lines. If the tumor increases further, it will compress the optic nerve and cause loss of vision, visual field defects (which may be manifested as hitting the door), hydrocephalus, etc.
Pituitary tumors can be divided into pituitary microadenoma, pituitary macroadenoma, giant adenoma or giant invasive adenoma according to their size. The larger the tumor, the worse the treatment effect, which often causes great harm to the physical and mental health of patients.
In recent years, the statistics of patients with pituitary microadenoma found in our hospital at an early stage showed that the number of female patients was 37 times higher than that of male patients, while the number of patients with huge invasive adenoma was the opposite, with male patients being 6.5 times higher than that of female patients. What is the reason for such a huge difference? It is due to the combination of the difference in physiological structure of men and women and social factors. In women, pituitary adenoma is mainly manifested in early stage as menstrual changes, such as menopause, irregular menstruation, reduced menstrual volume, lactation, etc., so female patients can often be detected at an early stage; whereas in men, microadenoma is mainly manifested as decreased libido, erectile dysfunction, infertility and gynecomastia, as well as loss of body hair such as beard and armpit hair, and pale complexion. The above symptoms are easily ignored by male patients for a long time or even if they pay attention to them, they are treated in male departments and are difficult to be found at an early stage until the tumor grows up to almost complete loss of sexual function or the loss of vision. It is not until the tumor grows to almost complete loss of sexual function or vision loss that the patient remembers to consult a doctor. From this point of view, female patients with pituitary tumor are more fortunate than male patients. For male patients with the above mentioned manifestations, especially those aged between 30 and 50 years old, who are under high work and social pressure, they are more likely to ignore the decline of sexual function. The “face” of a man should not be allowed to have symptoms should be timely consultation and timely treatment!