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Consultant urologist Dr George Lee Eng Geap, or a.k.a Dr G, enlightens a reader on the different types of prostatitis and the impact that they bring to his health.  Read more at   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00For this week, we're going to talk about infection in the prostate.

00:04As you can imagine, infection in the prostate is named as prostatitis.

00:15Prostatitis can be developed into two categories.

00:19One group is called acute prostatitis.

00:22This is when an acute infection in the prostate resulting in severe pain,

00:26pain on ejaculation, blood in your semen and also sometimes high temperature.

00:32This is quite serious.

00:34It usually is as a result of immunocompromised

00:37or somebody who had a biopsy of the prostate

00:40or somebody who has an infection that creates an abscess in the prostate.

00:44And this can be incredibly painful

00:46and non-treatment of this condition can result in sepsis.

00:50So acute prostatitis itself will require intravenous antibiotics

00:54and oftentimes, men have to be admitted to the hospital

00:59for several days for intravenous antibiotics.

01:02But on the contrary,

01:05chronic prostatitis is a condition that can happen in a less severe form.

01:12Chronic prostatitis can happen in a symptomatic manner

01:17and non-symptomatic manner.

01:19Non-symptomatic is when the prostatitis result in high PSA,

01:23the biopsy shows that there's inflammatory changes in the prostate

01:27so it is not apparent to the person itself having no symptoms at all.

01:33However, chronic prostatitis such as chronic bacterial prostatitis

01:37can be the vein of many men's life

01:39that can create pelvic pain, difficulty in passing urine,

01:44frequent urination, painful ejaculation and that comes on and off.

01:49It typically is triggered by dehydration.

01:53However, certain foods such as spicy food or food rich in uric acid

01:58such as shellfish and also nuts and beans and also red meat

02:02can also trigger prostatitis resulting in intermittent frequent urination,

02:08urgency and frequency.

02:11And chronic prostatitis apart from needing antibiotics

02:14sometimes will require medications such as alpha blockers,

02:185-alpha reductase inhibitors and so anti-inflammatory.

02:23And all these will help to suppress inflammation

02:25and result in improvement on the symptoms.

02:29And oftentimes, this is coming on a recurrent basis

02:32and it will need to be treated on a regular basis.

02:35For the new month of May, we're focusing on another form of infection,

02:40sometimes sexually transmitted

02:42and then it is a form of infection caused by a virus called HPV.

02:47Then you need to stay tuned for next week's Putting Dr. G on the Spot.

EP271: Prostatitis and its impact on men's health | PUTTING DR G ON THE SPOT

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