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Question: I am a patient with chronic prostatitis. I am only 36 years old this year. Someone It is said that patients with chronic prostatitis should have less sex to prevent prostate congestion from aggravating the condition. However, some people say that abstinence will accumulate toxicity in the prostate and worsen the condition. I would like to ask, how should patients with chronic prostatitis lead a sexual life? ——Mr. Sun, a reader from Jiangsu.

Guiding expert: Zhang Rui, MD, Department of Andrology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Heilongjiang University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Abstinence, over time, will make patients indifferent to sexual interest, resulting in frigidity and various sexual dysfunctions. It is wrong to believe that sexual intercourse should be stopped until prostatitis is cured.

When chronic inflammation of the prostate occurs, there will be many pathogens and inflammatory cells in the prostatic fluid. If you do not have sexual intercourse, the prostatic fluid will accumulate in the acini and cannot be discharged. The pathogens will continue to multiply. Although you take effective medications Medication treatment often does not achieve satisfactory results. In addition, penile erection and prostate congestion caused by sexual impulses will aggravate the symptoms of chronic prostatitis if not relieved through sexual intercourse.

The prostate itself is a secretory organ that constantly produces prostatic fluid and needs to be discharged regularly. This is the real secret to maintaining the prostate. During sexual intercourse, the action of ejaculation can cause the smooth muscles of the prostate to contract, promoting the discharge of prostatic fluid into the urethra, which plays a drainage role. Patients should appropriately arrange their sexual life according to their age, illness, treatment and physical condition, neither too frequently nor abstinence.