Will Prostatitis Attack You Because of Long-time Driving?

Prostatitis is a common urinary system disease, which occurs mostly in men under 50 years old. Prostatitis is divided into acute and chronic bacterial prostatitis and nonbacterial prostatitis. Its main symptoms are shivering and fever, frequent urination, urgency, and pain, accompanied by perineal pain, blood sperm, and sexual dysfunction. There are many causes of prostatitis, such as bacterial or fungal infection, bad living habits, and heredity.

Will you get prostatitis due to long-time driving?

The prostate is located between the bladder and urethra, adjacent to the perineum. Long time driving will make the prostate gland compressed and airtight, causing a lot of metabolic waste accumulation, low blood circulation speed, easy to block the prostate gland tube. The prostatic fluid excretion is not smooth, can cause chronic prostatic hyperemia, eventually leading to prostatitis.

When prostatitis is associated with bacterial and pathogenic microorganism infection, its main symptoms are frequent urination, urgency, dysuria, chills, and high fever, sometimes accompanied by acute urinary retention and dysuria. Antibiotics are usually effective in killing bacteria in the acute stage.

Prostatitis can repeatedly occur, leading to chronic prostatitis, and easily cause neurasthenia, insomnia, dreaminess, and dizziness. In this case, herbal medicine's therapeutic effect will be better than antibiotics, such as Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory Pill. It can eliminate your signs and improve your immunity and self-healing ability to prevent this disease from recurring again.

Men need to stop for activities every two hours of driving, exercise more, keep regular life and work and rest, and avoid staying up late. When driving, keep adequate ventilation, adjust the driver's seat, and change the posture frequently on the premise of safety.

What other bad habits are easy to cause prostatitis?

1. Long-time ride

Cycling is a healthy and environmentally friendly sport, improving physical fitness and enhancing the physique, and grasping the degree. Long time riding can cause perineal numbness, resulting in compression of perineal blood vessels and nerves. Due to a long contraction and ischemia, it can cause various discomforts, such as local numbness or pain.

Besides, long-term riding can increase testicular temperature, affect spermatogenesis and testosterone secretion, reduce spermatogenesis and fertility. For men who are preparing for pregnancy, they should control the daily riding time within two hours. Patients with chronic prostatitis should not ride for a long time to avoid aggravating the disease.

2. Suffocation

The bladder is the organ for storing urine. The primary function of the kidney is to produce urine. After urine flows into the bladder through the ureter, the bladder can expand automatically, and the bladder wall will stretch and become thinner. When the urine is filled to about 300 ~ 400 ml, the urine is discharged after receiving the brain signal. If you always hold your urine, the bacteria can retrograde into the prostate through the prostate tube, leading to prostate infection.

3. Irregular sex

Indulgence will make the prostate has been in a state of hyperemia, leading to prostate enlargement. Excessive abstinence can lead to prostate fullness discomfort, also affect prostate health. Therefore, men need to control sex, prevent prostate congestion, and give the prostate enough repair time.

4. Local cold

When the prostate is stimulated by cold, it can excite the sympathetic nerve, increase the pressure in the urethra, and affect the excretion of urine. Simultaneously, it can also stimulate the prostate tube's contraction, hinder the excretion of prostatic fluid, resulting in siltation, leading to prostatic congestion.

Warm tips:

Correct bad habits in time, keep regular sex, keep the prostate warm, and get rid of the bad habit of holding urine. Stay away from spicy food, quit alcohol. If possible, local physiotherapy or hot water sitz bath can reduce local inflammation and promote inflammatory factors' absorption.