Prostatitis is a common disease characterized by a wide variety of therapeutic methods. In other words, there is no single treatment regimen that is equally effective for different forms of this pathology.
The same remedy for different categories of patients can be both very productive and completely useless. However, doctors agree: treatment of prostatitis at home is one of the mandatory stages of a comprehensive program to restore male health. So, let's get acquainted with the most popular methods and treat insidious prostatitis at home!
Can I be treated at home?
It is no secret that a person applies for qualified help only when all folk remedies have been tried at home. This approach is fundamentally wrong - it is worth resorting to the help of specialists immediately after detecting unpleasant symptoms (discomfort in the groin area, painful frequent urination, weakening of an erection). And the appointment of a doctor can subsequently be combined with treatment at home. Moreover, there are many time-tested ways to eliminate this disease. Remember: amateur performance in such an important matter as your own well-being is prohibited, and "grandmother's" methods must be supplemented with drug therapy prescribed by a professional.
Summarizing all of the above, we can emphasize: it is possible to treat chronic prostatitis at home. But forgetting about the existence of modern medical developments aimed at preserving the health of men is still not worth it.
Simple but powerful recipes
When the question arises of how to treat prostatitis at home, they recall the simplest thing - pumpkin seeds. The healing properties of pumpkin seeds are legendary. Ancient healers actively used them to treat all forms of prostatitis. The fact is that this product contains a large amount of zinc - an element that should be present in the daily menu of men, regardless of age. Only 30 pumpkin seeds every day (at a time before meals) in the treatment of prostatitis - and a positive result will not be long in coming. Even an advanced chronic process is cured in this way.
It is possible to treat the disease at home using the same starting material, but in a different way. You should peel half a kilogram of pumpkin seeds, pass them through a meat grinder and add 200 grams of honey. Mix the resulting mass and form balls the size of a walnut. You can store the medicine in the refrigerator. Patients with prostatitis should eat 1-2 such balls daily before meals.
A sweet treat must be chewed thoroughly. Please note that you do not need to fry the seeds. It is enough to repeat these methods once a year - and chronic prostatitis will no longer bother you.
Another popular method is chestnut treatment. Take the chestnut shells with needles and cover with boiling water. Infuse the broth for an hour, and then drink it like tea. Also, enemas are made with the resulting solution.
Ripe chestnuts will help get rid of chronic prostatitis:
- Separate the peel from them, chop and pour boiling water (300 ml). Leave it overnight.
- In the morning strain the solution and place in a water bath.
- Pour the remaining 200 ml into a dark bottle.
Take 30 drops 3 times daily before meals. The duration of the course of treatment for prostatitis is 2 months. To cure prostatitis completely, you will need at least 3 courses.
The benefits of juices
It turns out that chronic prostatitis at home can be cured with more "tasty" methods. For this, juices are used, which are much more pleasant to drink than, for example, a decoction of chestnuts. Although the use of freshly squeezed juices promotes the release of uric acid, which, without receiving an outflow, leads to the development of the disease. For treatment with juices at home, asparagus, beets, carrots, cucumbers are especially good. Asparagus deserves special praise from men. True, the volume of juices drunk during the day should be at least half a liter.
You can also treat prostatitis at home with the help of black elderberry juice. It must be taken early in the morning, on an empty stomach, 1 tablespoon. The course is 10 days. To preserve the beneficial properties of the drink, it is recommended to add a little table vinegar to the juice. Please note: the body temperature may rise. This is completely normal and indicates that the treatment is effective.
Prostate massage
Prostate massage at home helps to treat even the most advanced forms of the disease in men. The procedure cannot be called pleasant, however, the high productivity of the therapeutic effect makes you forget about discomfort and tune in to a positive mood.
So what explains the positive effect? Why massage at home is positioned almost as a mandatory manipulation leading to recovery? Let's figure it out. Massage helps not only get rid of bacterial prostatitis (chronic), but also safely eliminate other forms (viral, mixed, gonorrheal). It is massage:
- normalizes blood circulation in the prostate gland;
- improves muscle tone of the prostate;
- ensures the correct outflow of the secret;
- increases the effectiveness of treatment of men with antibiotics and other antibacterial drugs.
However, unknowingly, massage at home can be harmful. In particular, it is naive to believe that this procedure is performed independently, without the help of a urologist or andrologist. The massage should be performed exclusively by a licensed specialist. The only thing: in a home environment, for the majority, it is much easier to decide on this than in a public or private medical institution.
Prostate massage is one of the commonly used treatments for inflammation.
Like any other medical manipulation, prostate massage at home has a number of contraindications. For example, massage will not give results in relation to acute bacterial prostatitis, chronic prostatitis with signs of malignant lesions, in the presence of cysts and stones in the prostate gland.
As for the indications, massage is prescribed for asymptomatic prostatitis, chronic pelvic pain syndrome, sexual dysfunctions, and lack of response to drug treatment. Also, massage is necessary to obtain prostate secretions for research purposes.
Apparatus for the treatment of prostatitis
To save men from tedious trips to the clinic and to treat prostatitis at home, special devices will allow.
These devices operate on different principles and are therefore classified as follows:
- Vibration effect. Thanks to microvibration, stagnation in the prostate gland is eliminated, muscle tone is increased, and symptoms of urinary tract irritation are relieved.
- Electrical impact. Aimed at stimulating tissues with modulated currents through rectal or cutaneous electrodes.
- Magnetic impact. The magnetic device has a decongestant, anti-inflammatory and analgesic effect.
- Laser exposure. Such devices are treated with infrared radiation.
It is impossible not to mention the devices themselves. On the modern market of medical equipment, there are a large number of devices for physiotherapy procedures at home.
Drug therapy
Drug treatment is another mandatory item in the treatment of prostatitis. It is quite understandable that medical methods are more relevant than ever. Even the most innovative developments and massage cannot compete with the achievements of pharmacology. To get rid of tuberculous, gonorrheal prostatitis, as well as prostatitis caused by ureaplasmas and mycoplasmas, only antibiotics allow.
Prostatitis requires a carefully thought out prescription regimen. Sometimes taking medications at home is delayed for several months. It all depends on the form and severity of the process. So, chronic prostatitis in men is much more difficult to cure than acute. In any case, medications should be prescribed by a doctor, taking into account the individual characteristics of the organism.
You cannot take any medications without consulting a specialist, otherwise the situation will only worsen. As you can see, prostatitis can be treated at home, the main thing is not to neglect the advice of professionals and follow the recommendations of the attending physician.
Be healthy!