Prostatitis is not transmitted but pathogens are dangerous

Is prostatitis sexually transmitted? This question probably worries many men. In order to accurately answer the question of whether prostatitis is contagious, it is necessary to understand the causes of the disease and the peculiarities of the course of the disease.

Prostatitis and its features

The name itself suggests that it is men who are susceptible to the disease due to the presence of the prostate gland. The resulting inflammation of the prostate is accompanied by unpleasant symptoms, since the inflamed tissues of the gland disrupt its functioning, and this is associated with frequent urination, and pain and cramps in the groin, and erectile dysfunction and many more resulting changes in the normal life of a man.

Inflammation of the prostate tissue occurs for two reasons: the first is the penetration of infection into the body, in such a prostatitis is called infectious, the second is stagnation in the pelvic organs, in non-infectious, caused by natural aging of the body, or other reasons that caused stagnation.

Infectious prostatitis

The disease depends on the microorganisms that led to its occurrence.

Sexually transmitted viruses and infections:

• virus (herpes, papilloma, flu)
• fungus (Candida infection)
• chlamydia
• gonorrhea (gonococci)
• Trichomonas
• Koch's tubercle bacillus
• mycoplasma (intracellular lesion)
• mixed infections

How to protect yourself from prostatitis

To protect yourself from an infection that provokes prostatitis, you can only follow certain rules of life. Sex should not be promiscuous, exercise and lack of extra pounds, avoid hypothermia, maintain your mental health, do not abuse alcohol and do not take drugs.

All these reasons, weakening male immunity, contribute to the disease, since the body's resistance is reduced. Perhaps, there is only one reason for the penetration of the infection into the body, which does not depend on the man - it is the infection during the operation.

Can I get infected

Infectious prostatitis is contagious, but it would be more correct to say that the virus or infection that caused the inflammation of the prostate is infectious for the patient's sexual partner. This virus is not transmitted either by airborne droplets or through blood, but is sexually transmitted. An infection that has entered the body settles not only in the prostate, but also affects neighboring organs.

A man's urethra and bladder are the first to suffer. Through the blood, the infection can penetrate into neighboring organs if an injury is sustained. Is it possible for a woman to get prostatitis? Again, we need to clarify how one partner becomes infected with another.

Woman Infection

Is prostatitis transmitted to women? No, a woman cannot get prostatitis due to the absence of a prostate gland, but it is possible to infect a woman if her partner has a sexually transmitted disease. During sexual intercourse, any infection will be transmitted from a sick man to a healthy woman. A woman, as a result of infection, may develop cystitis or other inflammatory diseases of the pelvic organs.

When infected with an infection, more serious pathologies can arise, one of which is infertility, but in the case of infection with herpes, which is also transmitted only sexually and is considered by many to be an almost harmless disease, a woman will face a lot of trouble. With genital herpes, vesicles with liquid appear, which itch and hurt, the disease cannot be cured one hundred percent, the blood circulating through the body with this virus can infect other organs, up to the brain. The infection is passed on to the baby during childbirth. Treatment for herpes is necessary to reduce the number of relapses.

There is also a reverse process, when from a woman with a sexually transmitted disease, an infection is transmitted to a man and causes prostatitis in him

This is the most common cause of the disease. The microorganisms that cause inflammation in a woman's vagina will be passed on to her partner during sex, and the prostate gland will be attacked. So the answer to the question of whether a woman can infect a man is positive. The situation will be aggravated if both the girl and her partner are not too choosy in their sex life, and have several partners. In this case, all infections will go in a circle. This is how a disease with mixed infections occurs.

Identifying the problem

In order to start treatment for prostatitis at an early stage, a man must pay great attention to the prompts of the body. When discomfort in the groin appears, whether it is pain or burning sensation, or just discomfort, he should immediately seek medical help.Of course, prostatitis can develop unnoticed at the initial stage, be asymptomatic, but this still more often refers to non-infectious prostatitis, when the patient reacts only to frequent nighttime urination.

In case of infection with Infectious prostatitis, infection with microorganisms occurs, which, introducing themselves, cause in the overwhelming majority of cases itching, redness of the tip of the penis, and discharge from the canal may be present. These symptoms are more than enough so as not to postpone the visit to the urologist.

Infection can be avoided for both partners by using a condom, which will prevent infection from one to the other

However, the use of protective measures in no way cancels the urgent need for treatment. At the first signs of illness in one of the partners, both should consult a doctor. Only under this condition will the infection be defeated, otherwise the treatment will be useless!

From all that has been written it follows that it is impossible to unequivocally answer the question whether prostatitis is transmitted from man to woman or not. It is clear that it is impossible to transmit prostatitis to a woman, but the causative agent of the disease - an infection - of course, is possible. So, with a man's prostatitis, problems also appear for a woman, if not she was the root cause of the disease. From all that has been said above, it should become clear that "prostatitis is transmitted" - this is a figure of speech, in fact, the infection that caused inflammation of the prostate gland is transmitted.