What is prostatitis

  Prostatitis is a prostate disease caused by a variety of complex causes, with urethral irritation and chronic pelvic pain as the main clinical manifestations. Prostatitis is a common urological condition, accounting for the highest number of male patients under the age of 50 in urology. Prostatitis can be divided into acute bacterial infectious prostatitis, chronic bacterial prostatitis and chronic aseptic prostatitis.  1, acute bacterial infectious prostatitis: pathogenic infection as the main causative factor. The main pathogen is Escherichia coli, followed by Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Aspergillus, Pseudomonas, etc. The majority of these are single pathogen infections.  2, chronic bacterial prostatitis: the causative factor is also mainly pathogenic infection, but the body is more resistant or/and pathogens are less virulent, to retrograde infection, the pathogens are mainly Staphylococcus spp, followed by Escherichia coli, rod-shaped bacilli and enterococci spp. Prostate stones and urinary reflux may be important reasons for the persistence of pathogens and recurrence of infection.  3, chronic aseptic prostatitis, chronic pelvic pain syndrome, the pathogenesis is unknown and the etiology is very complex.  In addition, smoking, alcohol, spicy food, inappropriate sexual activity, sedentary causing long-term congestion of the prostate and long-term chronic extrusion of the pelvic floor muscles, cold, fatigue, etc. are all predisposing factors for prostatitis and are closely related to the onset of prostatitis.