In the view of most patients, since chronic prostatitis is not an infectious disease, there is no need to care too much about whether it is infectious. However, some patients do have serious mental concerns, worried about infecting their wives through sexual life. Some wives also refuse to have sex because of their fear of being infected by their husbands' inflammation, which has become one of the main reasons for their strict abstinence or prohibition of sexual life. Over time, it may have a certain impact on the emotional communication between husband and wife, the normal life of husband and wife, and the rehabilitation of their own diseases.
Can chronic prostatitis be infected?
Andrologists pointed out that the vast majority of chronic prostatitis is non-bacterial, bacterial prostatitis only accounts for about 5%, and most of them are non-specific common bacteria or opportunistic pathogens.
To determine whether chronic prostatitis is infectious, we need to first understand the causes of chronic prostatitis. Chronic prostatitis includes bacterial prostatitis, non-bacterial prostatitis and prostatalgia. Although bacteria can be brought into the woman's body through husband and wife's life, it will not cause infection in women generally, because women have strong resistance to foreign bacterial infection in the vagina. So for the vast majority of patients, it is not necessary to consider the infectious problem of chronic prostatitis.
However, some highly pathogenic pathogens, as well as some specific pathogens, such as gonococcus, treponema pallidum, mycoplasma, chlamydia, trichomonas, fungi, viruses and other prostatitis, can transmit the infected pathogens to the wife through the way of sexual life in the early stage of the disease, resulting in the corresponding infection of the wife's reproductive system, and it is often difficult to diagnose the infection of these pathogens. The same pathogenic microorganism can often be obtained by culturing the prostate fluid of these prostatitis patients and the vaginal or cervical secretion of their wives. It further proves that chronic prostatitis can be transmitted through the life of husband and wife.
In clinical practice, andrologists have found that it is not uncommon for men to have prostate infection due to women's infectious factors, which also needs attention. The prostatitis caused by these specific pathogens has a clear cause and satisfactory targeted treatment effect. Generally, after short-term treatment, most of the pathogens can be killed. Although there are still inflammatory lesions, most of them are not infectious. At this time, even if they have sex, they will not be infected. Therefore, for the sake of their own health and the health of their spouses, sexual life should be avoided at the early stage of thorough treatment of the pathogens of these specific infections. If it is suspected that the woman has been infected or that the woman is the source of infection, the husband and wife should be treated at the same time.
Because some specific pathogen infections, such as gonococcus, treponema pallidum, trichomonas, and pathogenic mycoplasma and chlamydia infections, are often associated with unclean sexual life or promiscuous history; For those chronic prostatitis patients who have a serious attitude towards life and have no history of dirty sex or promiscuity, sex is generally safe and non-infectious, and they need not worry too much about it.
Therefore, for patients with chronic prostatitis, whether bacterial or not, it is not necessary to strictly control or prohibit sexual life, as long as attention to sexual hygiene is enough. In order not to transmit pathogens to his wife, it is best to use condoms during sex. This can also play the role of "double insurance" for self-protection and prevent some opportunistic pathogens in his wife from infecting him.
Warm tips
If you have chronic infectious prostatitis, you should follow four principles:
First, do not delay the opportunity. The symptoms of different prostatitis patients vary greatly. The symptoms of chronic prostatitis are diversified, and the symptoms are not proportional to the severity of inflammation.
Second, don't trust "special drugs". There are no specific drugs for treating prostatitis, especially for chronic prostatitis.
Third, we must see prostate specialist. Prostate disease is difficult to diagnose because of its complexity, especially the symptoms of chronic prostatitis vary, and the etiology is obscure; Moreover, it is difficult for drugs to reach the focus, which is easy to lead to long-term treatment and repeated attacks of prostate disease. Only regular professional departments can provide standardized treatment for this disease.
Fourth, we should adhere to the principle of equal treatment for men and women, because only by adhering to the principle of equal treatment for men and women can we completely wave goodbye to prostatitis.