Benign prostatic hyperplasia
It is a serious disease, God forbid, affects men after the age of forty sometimes, and I will tell you today about this serious disease and its causes and treatment methods.
When men get older, the prostate passes through two phases of growth. The first stage gets in the beginning of adolescence, when the prostate enlarges its size. At the age of 25 years, the prostate begins to grow again. This growth sometimes leads, after several years, to benign prostatic hyperplasia.
Although the prostate continues to grow during all years of men’s life, this growth does not lead to problems, except at a greater age. Prostate enlargement rarely causes symptoms before age 40. But more than half of men in their 60s and nearly 90 percent of men at the age of seventy-eight years suffer from symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia, to varying degrees.
When the prostate enlarges, the layer of tissue that encapsulates it is transformed without expansion, leading to prostatic compression on the urethra, which causes the urinary bladder wall to intensify and irritate.
Urinary bladder causes pressure, even when it contains a small amount of urine, a phenomenon that causes urination at close intervals. Over time, the urinary bladder weakens and the ability to empty the urine is completely lost. The narrowing of the urethra and the partial emptying of the bladder are responsible for a large part of the problems related to benign prostatic hyperplasia.
Many people have trouble talking about the prostate, because this gland has a function in sexual life and in urination, both. But prostate enlargement is a normal part of the aging process, such as the appearance of gray hair.
Many of the symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia result from obstruction of the urethra and bladder damage gradually.
Symptoms are many and different, the common ones are problems with urination, such as:
Urinary intermittent, weak and distal flow of urine.
Feeling of an urge to urinate and leak urine.
Urination at close intervals, and at night.
The size of the prostate does not always determine the severity of the obstruction of the urethra or the enlarged prostate symptoms. In some men, the size of the gland (prostate) is very large but the degree of obstruction in the urethra is small and symptoms are few, and in another part of men the size of the gland is lower but the degree of obstruction greater and the problems that cause more.
Some men suddenly discover their blockage, losing all ability to urinate. This condition is called Acute urinary retention. This condition can be caused by taking over-the-counter medications to treat leukemia or allergies. These drugs contain a substance that has a stimulating effect on the sympathetic nervous system.
One side effect of this substance is that it may inhibit the prolapse of the urinary bladder that allows the urine to go out. When the occlusion is partial, urinary retention may occur due to alcohol, cold weather and lack of movement for a long period of time.
It is important to inform your doctor if there are problems with urination, as mentioned earlier. Of the 10 cases in which these symptoms occur, eight are caused by enlarged prostate. However, these symptoms can indicate a more serious disease and require rapid treatment. These diseases, including prostate cancer, can only be ruled out by a Urologist.
Over time, severe benign prostatic hyperplasia may lead to difficult problems. Urinary retention and pressure on the bladder may cause urinary tract infections, damage to the bladder or kidneys, urinary bladder stones and urinary incontinence. If the damage to the bladder is irreversible and irreversible, treatment of prostatic hyperplasia will not be helpful in this case. When bladder bladder is diagnosed at an early stage, these complications are less likely to occur.
The cause of bladder inflation is still unknown. There is no conclusive information about risk factors. It has been known for hundreds of years that prostate enlargement usually appears in older people, and does not appear in men who have had their testicles removed before adolescence. Because of these facts, some researchers believe that factors related to aging and testes may accelerate the growth of benign prostatic hyperplasia.
Men testosterone (Testosterone), an important male hormone, also produces a small amount of estrogen, a female hormone. As men age, the level of active testosterone decreases in the blood, and as a result the level of estrogen rises.
In animal research, the possibility of benign prostatic hyperplasia has been raised by the high level of estrogen in the gland, which increases the effectiveness of certain substances that stimulate and accelerate cell inflation.
Another theory focuses on DHT-Dihydrotestosterone, a testosterone-derived substance in the prostate that is believed to help reduce its hyperglycemia.
Most animals lose the ability to produce DHT as they age. However, research has shown that although testosterone is low in blood, older people continue to produce and store elevated levels of DHT in the prostate. The accumulation of DHT is likely to cause the cells to swell.
Scientists have observed that benign prostatic hyperplasia does not appear in men who do not produce DHT.
Some researchers believe that benign prostatic hyperplasia occurs as a result of instructions received by cells at an early age. According to this theory, benign prostatic hyperplasia occurs because cells in a particular area of the prostate gland perform these instructions and wake up again at a later stage in life. These awakened cells send signals to other cells in the gland, urging them to grow or turn them into cells more sensitive to growth hormones.