Prostate Diseases – Be Aware

Just as it is "compulsory" for women to perform a pap smear at least once a year and a yearly mammogram after age 40, for men also there is a "duty", which is not always taken into account: the prostate review .

Often either due to misinformation or shame, the man is reluctant to attend the doctor to perform routine checkups or when they feel any discomfort related to their genital or sexual. Especially when given that this check requires a scanning or manual palpation of the prostate by the health professional to verify the size of it, from the time of his finger in the rectum of the patient.

But it is very important to get this screening done for early detection else can lead to serious diseases of this gland, including the dreaded cancer.

This is not to get scared, but rather to take consciousness that the man also from a certain age, needs a doctor to know about their lives and sexual health.

The prostate is a gland located just below the bladder. The cells of the prostate, are responsible in part, to produce seminal fluid, which protects and nourishes sperm.

With regard to sexuality, the prostate is known as the "G Men", as there are men who are capable of having an orgasm from prostate stimulation through massage or anal relations.
The most frequent diseases that may arise in the prostate are prostatitis, benign prostatic hypertrophy and prostate cancer.

Prostatitis is inflammation of the prostate, caused by an infectious agent may be bacterial or otherwise, some of its symptoms are fever, chills, frequent desire to urinate, burning urination, pain in the lower part of the back or on top of the pubis and may even be blood in the urine.

For its part, benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) is characterized by an abnormal growth of the gland, and is presented with difficulty in urinating, low pressure in the jet of urine leaks, need to urinate frequently, feeling of always full bladder.

While prostate cancer is a malignant tumor, and often very aggressive, characterized by difficulty in urination, urinary stream strength is usually weak, frequent desire to urinate, burning urination, painful ejaculation, blood in the presence of urine, if the tumor is large there may be pain in the lower back, the thighs and lower abdomen region.

Genetic factors and a diet high in fat, seem to favor the emergence of this type of cancer that usually occurs in men older than 50 years.

Therefore it is very important that from this age, no matter how uncomfortable you are, should undergo an annual prostate exam and take a regular massage with prostate massagers or from some expert, which only takes a few minutes . So have you already done this test?