What are the effects of untreated acute prostatitis?
Acute prostatitis is a type of infective prostatitis. It is caused by a bacterial infection of the prostate gland. Acute prostatitis presents as an acute urinary tract infection (UTI). It is usually associated with predisposing risk factors, including bladder outlet obstruction secondary to benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) or an immunosuppressed state.
Acute prostatitis is an infection that causes severe symptoms. It is the most serious and least common type of prostatitis. Men with this illness are usually very sick, and their symptoms come on suddenly. Approximately 5% of cases of acute bacterial prostatitis (ABP) progress to chronic prostatitis. If you left your acute prostatitis untreated, it would lead to serious problems. Then what are the effects of untreated acute prostatitis?
Apart from chronic prostatitis, other complications of acute prostatitis can occur. These include:
Acute (sudden) urinary retention. Because it may be so painful to pass urine, urine can build up in your bladder, causing pain in your lower abdomen and inability to pass urine at all.
Prostate abscess. If the antibiotics do not effectively treat the prostate infection, rarely you can develop an abscess of your prostate gland. Your doctor may suspect this if your symptoms do not improve despite antibiotic treatment.
Untreated acute prostatitis affects men differently, with varying degrees of discomfort or pain. And could not only bring burning urination, difficulty urinating, painful defecation and ejaculation to you, but also associated with epididymitis and orchitis. What’s worse, untreated acute prostatitis could easily developed into chronic prostatitis, and increase risk of developing prostate cancer or any other prostate or kidney disease.
So if you get infected with acute prostatitis, you can't ignore it and leave it untreated. With the rapid development of our medical technology, except surgery, you have many other choices to treat acute prostatitis. For example, you can take the antibiotics to relieve your symptoms first, and then take a well-known Chinese herbal medicine, named diuretic and anti-inflammation pill, which could radically cure acute prostatitis without any side effects.
Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory Pill, which is also known as diuresis antibiotic pill, the herbs in Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory Pill work effectively and directly into reproductive system and urinary system, to completely clear up infections. It terminates chronic pain by improving blood circulation and eliminating inflammation gradually. Thus it could cure acute prostatitis completely.
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