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Prostate
Enlargement Protocol
Chronic
Bacterial Prostatitis
Chronic bacterial prostatitis is also relatively uncommon. It is acute
prostatitis associated with an underlying defect in the prostate, a
focal point for bacterial persistence in the urinary tract. Effective
treatment usually requires identifying and removing the defect and then
treating the infection with antibiotics. However, antibiotics often
do not cure chronic bacterial prostatitis. Also, often the urine, semen,
and other fluids from the prostate show no evidence of a known infecting
organism.
Asymptomatic Inflammatory Prostatitis
A patient can have prostatitis and not be aware of it. He can have asymptomatic
inflammatory prostatitis and have no pain or discomfort. Physicians
usually find this form of prostatitis when looking for causes of infertility
or when testing for prostate cancer.
Prostatic Massage to Relieve Prostatitis
One of the causes of pain in prostatitis is the build-up of pressure
in the prostate due to an accumulation of semen or fluids due to bacterial
infection. One way to relieve the pressure is to have the prostate massaged.
A doctor can insert a gloved finger in the rectum and use firm pressure
to force the excess products from the prostate. The procedure can be
somewhat painful. However, relieving the pressure can bring relief from
pain for a period of time. Prostatic massage is a simple procedure that
may be done by a person who is not a physician. Sometimes the patient
is advised to have sex with ejaculation at least 2-3 times a week to
relieve pressure..
SUMMARY
The
enlargement of the prostate gland, which occurs in most men with advancing
age, is accompanied by reduced urinary flow and increased residual urine
volume. Hormonal imbalances are known to be a major cause of age-related
prostate disorders. Here is a step-by-step program to treat symptoms
of prostate enlargement:
Rule
out prostate cancer by having a PSA test and a DRE.
Have a urologist evaluate the size of your prostate gland. A severely
overgrown prostate gland may benefit from 5-10 mg of Proscar every day
or every other day in addition to phytotherapies, such as saw palmetto,
pygeum, and nettle extracts.
Most men will experience significant alleviation of symptoms of prostate
enlargement by using saw palmetto extract by itself or in combination
with pygeum and/or nettle extract. The precise doses used in the successful
clinical studies have been combined into a single formula called the
Natural Prostate Formula. A suggested dose of Natural Prostate Formula
is 1 capsule twice daily.
If severe symptoms of prostate enlargement persist, consider aromatase-inhibiting
therapy to suppress excess serum estrogen that may be a primary factor
in the development and progression of the disease. Arimidex in the low
dose of 0.5 mg twice a week usually produces a dramatic and immediate
reduction in serum estrogen.
The use of an isoflavone soy extract (50-112 mg a day of isoflavones),
lycopene (10-30 mg a day), selenium (200 mcg a day), and gamma tocopherol
(200 mg once a day) may reduce the risk of benign prostate enlargement
developing into prostate cancer.
If all else fails and urinary blockage manifests, prostate enlargement
patients may have no choice but to undergo TURP, which involves the
insertion of a surgical device to remove excess prostate overgrowth.
Some men undergo an outpatient procedure and experience little discomfort,
while other men encounter pain and other long-term effects. Even after
transurethral resection surgery, the proper use of phtyoextracts and/or
drugs can help keep the prostate gland from developing overgrowth again.
For those for whom all nutrient and drug therapies fail and who do not
want to undergo surgery, tes-tosterone blockade of prostate cell receptor
sites with the drug Casodex (and/or Lupron or Zoladex) for 3 months
may induce prostate-gland shrinkage. There are many side effects associated
even with this short-term testosterone blockade.
For the 10-20% of men who do not obtain sufficient benefits from saw
palmetto, pygeum, and urtica extracts and/or finasteride, addition of
an alpha-blocker (e.g., a prescription drug such as Hytrin) may relieve
urinary urgency symptoms.
Men with early stage prostate cancer manifesting benign prostate disease
should refer to the Prostate Cancer protocol.
Additional
Information on prostate enlargement and Prostatitis
American Foundation for Urologic Disease (AFUD)
Thomas
Bruckman, Executive Director and CEO
1128 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
Telephone: (800) 242-2383, (410) 727-2908
E-mail: admin@afud.org
Home page: http://www.afud.org
The Prostatitis Foundation
1063
30th Street, Box 8
Smithshire, IL 61478
Telephone: (888) 891-4200
E-mail: mcapstone@aol.com
Home page: http://www.prostatitis.org
National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse
3 Information
Way
Bethesda, MD 20892-3580
website address:
http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health/kidney/nkudic.htm
or see www.healthtouch.com
The National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse
(NKUDIC) is a service of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive
and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). NIDDK is part of the National Institutes
of Health under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
NKUDIC
collects resource information on kidney and urologic diseases for the
Combined Health Information Database (CHID). CHID is a database produced
by health-related agencies of the federal government. This database
provides titles, abstracts, and the availability of health information
and health education resources.
To
provide the most up-to-date resources, information specialists at the
clearinghouse have created an automatic CHID search. To obtain information,
view the results of an automatic search on prostatitis.
If
you prefer to perform your own search of the database, access the CHID
online and search CHID yourself (http://chid.nih.gov/).
American
Urological Association. Inc.
1120
North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
Telephone: (410) 727-1100
PubMed
Another excellent source is PubMed. PubMed is a government facility
that provides abstracts for thousands of articles and studies. To search
PubMed go to www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/ .
Google
One of the best sources of information is the Internet and the Google
search engine. Go to www.google.com to search Google for information
on thousands of different subjects. (Google is often better than an
encyclopedia.)
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