Prostate Problems - The Prostate Adenoma

"There is no greater happiness in life than the discharge of the bladder ..." Ovid

As a child, it grows very slowly, but increases rapidly during adolescence. For 20 years it reaches its mature state.

Most men, however, experienced regrowth of the prostate. When a man reaches the age of about 45 years, the cells of the central part of the prostate - where it surrounds the urethra - begin to reproduce faster than usual. Expanding, prostate tissue is often compresses the urethra and prevents the passage of urine.

In medicine, this condition is called prostate adenoma, but in recent years has become more common international term "benign prostatic hyperplasia, or, in abbreviated form - BPH.

The urethra, the tube through which urine leaves the bladder, surrounded by the prostate gland. In benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) tissue of the central part of the prostate gland grow, grow, and squeezing the urethra, disrupting the normal flow of urine.

The likelihood of BPH increases with age. She suffered more than half of men aged 60 to 70 years and about 90% of men older than 80 years. Reasons for the increase of the prostate are not clear. Scientists believe that with age the prostate becomes more sensitive to the effects of male hormones, including testosterone. These hormones, acting on certain tissue cancer, forcing them to grow. Other factors also likely to have value. If your close male relatives suffered from BPH, and this increases your chances of contracting because it tells a certain genetic predisposition. This probably depends on lifestyle. For unknown reasons, married men are more prone to BPH than bachelors.

This condition can be so different expressions, which sometimes does not give any problems. Only about half of men with BPH and its manifestations become so noticeable and unpleasant that they have to turn this problem to the doctor.

These manifestations may be as follows.

• Frequent urination at night.
• Weak urine stream.
• During urination urine stream is interrupted, then there again.
• The urine continues to trickle out after you finished urinating.
• Frequent or unbearable urge to urinate.
• Failure to empty the bladder.

BPH is a serious threat to your health, when it begins to interfere with bladder emptying. Continuing full bladder can lead to chronic recurrent infections of the urinary bladder and kidney disease.

BPH is not always progresses with time. According to one study, slack, moderate manifestations of benign prostatic hyperplasia worse in only 20% of cases In the other 20% of the state even improves with age, and the remaining patients the symptoms remained at the same level.