What is prostatitis?

Prostatitis refers to local and systemic symptoms caused by acute or chronic inflammation caused by nonspecific infection of the prostate. Generally divided into four types:

Type Ⅰ: Acute bacterial prostatitis.

Type Ⅱ: Chronic bacterial prostatitis.

Type III: chronic nonbacterial prostatitis.

Type ⅢA: chronic nonbacterial inflammatory prostatitis.

Type ⅢB: Chronic non-bacterial non-inflammatory prostatitis.

Type Ⅳ: Asymptomatic prostatitis.

Chronic prostatitis (CP), also known as chronic prostatitis-like syndrome, is a group of syndromes, a common and frequently-occurring disease in urology, including type Ⅱ, type Ⅲ and type Ⅳ. According to European and American statistics, The incidence of pathology in adults can reach 35%-98%, and the clinical incidence in the general male population may reach 5%-8.8%. In the United States, there are 2 million patients with chronic prostatitis each year. According to domestic data, the pathological incidence rate is about 24.3%, the first peak age of onset is 30-39 years old, about 34.4%, the other peak is 60-69 years old, and the incidence rate is about 36.4%.

The clinical course of chronic prostatitis is a gradual and complicated process, and there are more sexual dysfunctions, changes in fertility, long-term dull pain, changes in urination, changes in neuropsychology, etc., which can affect marriage and family Therefore, prostatitis is not only a medical problem, but also a serious social problem.