Symptoms of BPH
The BPH usually attack men over 50 years old, the disease occure more along with the older age. Causes of BPH is mainly the imbalance of internal secretion, which lead to the back urethra prolonged and bended,raising the exit of the bladder.All these result to the dysuria, secondary infection, bladder stones, even retention of urine and prostate cancer.
The main symptoms are urinary difficulty, such as frequent urination (early symptom), urinary stoppage,urinary waiting and etc.. Because BPH strengthen the urinary resistance and make excessive bladder constriction for urination, the detrusor become incrassate. so a little urine may stimulate the bladder,this is why the patients want to urinate frequently, which may be more seriously at night .
Even with the excessive constriction of the bladder, the urine cann't be discharged completely and some urine will remain in the bladder. Men can infect the acute retention of urine(disable to urine) if they catch cold, drink alcohol or holded urination which may cause the excitement of sympathetic nerve. Patients with much urine remain in the bladder may occur frquent urinary incontience.
When the prostate enlarges to a certain degree,it will squeeze the bladder and urethra and causes a series of the dysuria symptom, which is called benign prostate hypertrophy (BPH)or prostate enlargement. BPH mainly attacks at men over 50 years and more than 80% of old men suffer from it. Since prostate is located at the exit of the bladder and near urinary tract, the enlarged prostate will squeeze the urethra and causes urine block, then result in a serial of pathological changes in urologic system.
The exact causes of the BPH is still unknown.The common explaination is that endocrine,hormone imbalance and other factors cause the prostate hypertrophy. According to the enlarged degrees of the prostate, BPH is classified into three degrees, natural size of prostate is like chestnut, the first degree is like a egg yolk, the second is like a yolk of duck's egg, and the third is like a yolk of goose's egg. The main symptoms of BPH is aggravating dysuria. The early stage of BPH can bring frequent urination, especially serious frequent urination at night, slight urinary hesitation, great pain in abdomen during urination, weak urination, thin stream of urine or urine bifurcation, dripping wet, urinary incontinence , even retention of urine. Pressure from the prostate to the urethra may bring other urologic diseases such as urethritis or bladder inflammation, vesical calculus or bladder diverticulum etc. All of these pathological changes also cause the hematuria.
Pathogenesis(Causes of BPH)
From the Chinese medicine theory, the pathogenesis of BPH is associated with qi transformation of the triple burner, impaired diffusion and downbearing of the lung, unable to govern regulation of the waterways, the splenic transformation failure and unable to upbear the clear and downbear the turbid, damp-heat pouring down into the bladder, kidney vacuity and yang debilitation, qi transformation disturbance of lower burner, so the BPH is caused by the disturbance of qi transformation in the lung, spleen and kidney (triple burner).
Virtually unknown Female "prostate" Disease
There are tissues located above the the back of female urethra, it is called female "prostate" in medicine. About 92% women have the tissue, and 25% of them have the real prostate structure. Since the female tissue is similar to prostate, it can also be infected hyperplasia or congested urethra. The female "prostate" disease is caused by the obstruction in the neck of female bladder, the symptoms are just like the male BPH. So it is defined female "prostate" obstruction, which mainly appears to middle aged women, especially the old women. The symptoms are similar to male prostate diseases such as dysuria, slow urinary stream, dribbling wet and even acute urinary retention. The obstruction of bladder neck may bring urethra infection and the symptoms of urinary urgency, frequent urination, painful urination,hematuria and etc.
Hematuria (Blood in Semen)
Many BPH patients will suddenly apprear blood in urine and coagulated blood. As we know, the blood vessels in the hyperplastic prostate may be increased and become the hyperplastic tissue protruding toward the urethra tract, which will often be seriously washed by the urine.Since the BPH patients cann't urinate freely, abundant blood vessel in the hyperplastic prostate will be broken and bring hematuria once they urinate with great force or sudden local pressure reduction after urination.Besides, the urethra pressure caused by BPH also results in other inflammation of urinary system such as urethritis, cystitis, bladder stones and bladder diverticulum and etc.,and these diseases also bring hematuria. So BPH is the root of blood in semen,the best treatment for blood in semen is the complete cure of the BPH.
Inaddition, hematuria is also the common symptom of the BPH. The broken capillary tube of the prostate caused by the bladder constriction and the remnant urine are the substrate for the bacteria reproduction, which result in the urethrai nfection.
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