Men's Health Qinzhou

Currently, the top three most common health problems among men aged 18-60 in Qinzhou are urinary tract stones, hyperuricemia, gout, and non-alcoholic fatty liver. The incidence rate among people over 30 years old exceeds 45%. The most cost-effective way to deal with it is to Have a targeted physical examination including urological color ultrasound, blood uric acid, and liver function once a year. Priority should be given to the regular departments of the city's first hospital, city's second hospital, and city's traditional Chinese medicine hospital. Don't believe the "men's special diagnosis and treatment" advertisements posted on the street, which will waste money and delay things.

Last year, I helped sort out men’s physical examination reports for nearly half a year in the Health Management Department of the Second City Hospital. Among the 1,000 samples, almost one in three men over 35 years old was found to have kidney stones or ureteral stones. The youngest patient was only 21 years old and a student at Qinzhou College. He stayed up late playing games every day, drank ice milk tea when he was thirsty, and rarely drank boiled water. During the physical examination, he found that the stone was almost 0.8 centimeters, and he didn’t feel it at all. People of the older generation always say, "Don't worry about the stone if it doesn't hurt." Some people believe in folk remedies that drinking vinegar can dissolve stones. In fact, urological doctors have made it clear that smooth stones smaller than 0.6 centimeters can be eliminated by drinking more water and exercising more. Even if stones larger than 1 centimeter are not painful, regular review is required, otherwise it will be troublesome if the ureter is blocked and the kidneys are damaged. Drinking vinegar to turn stones is even more nonsense. Vinegar will be digested in the stomach and cannot reach the urinary tract at all.

Let me tell you something interesting. I was talking to friends in disease control before. They said that the health awareness rate of men in Qinzhou is 20 percentage points lower than that of women. Many men’s wives are urging them to go for physical examinations, and they would never take the initiative to do so. Why is the incidence of stones and high uric acid in Qinzhou 3 percentage points higher than the Guangxi average? It’s not all a water problem. The Municipal Disease Control and Prevention conducted a survey before and found that the hardness of Qinzhou’s local drinking water is actually not as high as that of Hechi and Baise. The main reason is a coincidence of eating habits: eating from the sea, usually flower crabs, skin shrimps, and fried snails are home-cooked dishes. Many men, whether they go to sea to collect nets or not, Even when I go to the Baisha Street Night Market with my friends after get off work, I like to eat seafood, drink cold beer, and drink locally brewed rice wine. My purine intake exceeds the standard. In addition, there are many workers who drive online taxis and run port freight. They sit for seven or eight hours at a time. They hold in their urine and drink less water, which is not easy to cause problems.

Last month I met Brother Chen, a 34-year-old man who drives a container truck in Qinzhou Port. He was in pain and sweating in the middle of the night and was brought to the emergency room by a friend. It was found that he had a ureteral stone blockage. After asking, he found out that he did not dare to drink more water for fear of going to the toilet when running long distances and had to eat at noon. Ordering fried snails with ice beer has been this habit for almost five consecutive years. The previous physical examination showed that the uric acid level was over 580. I didn’t think it was painful so I didn’t take it seriously. This time after the lithotripsy was done, I even told the doctor, “I knew I would have listened to your advice to give up beer last year.” There is actually no unified standard answer for the treatment of high uric acid. The advice of Western medicine is that if the uric acid exceeds 480, you need to consider intervention, eat less high-purine foods, and take acid-lowering drugs when necessary. ； Doctors from the Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine also gave a prescription suitable for local people: you can usually boil water with Guangxi's local money grass and chicken bone grass and drink it as tea. Drinking it two or three times a week can help lower uric acid and prevent stones. However, people with weak spleen and stomach should not drink it every day, as it is prone to diarrhea. Both methods are reasonable, and everyone can choose according to their own situation. There is no need to stick to one method.

Another pitfall that everyone easily falls into is indiscriminate treatment for men’s problems. There used to be a 27-year-old young man who worked at Qinzhou Port. He had been urinating frequently recently. He saw a small advertisement posted on the roadside and went to a private clinic. He was deceived that it was a "severe prostate lesion." He spent more than 20,000 yuan for half a month and was not cured. After half a month, he went to the city's second doctor for a checkup. It was ordinary prostatitis caused by sitting for a long time. He prescribed medicine worth more than 300 yuan. He went home and adjusted his work and rest, and it was cured in less than a month. To be honest, if you really encounter problems related to frequent urination, urgency, and sexual function, go directly to the urology department of a regular hospital. They can treat all problems, so you don’t have to feel embarrassed. The doctor sees many patients in a day and will not look at you strangely.

Many people think that fatty liver disease is only caused by obese people, but this is not true. I met a young man who was 175cm tall and only 120 pounds before. He worked as a programmer. He stayed up late and worked overtime every day. He only ordered braised pork and roasted duck rice for takeout. He hardly exercised. His physical examination showed that he had moderate fatty liver disease. He was confused. There are also different opinions on the treatment of fatty liver. Some nutritionists require complete abstinence from oil and meat, and eating boiled vegetables every day, but many friends in Qinzhou simply cannot do it. After all, the local braised pork and pig's trotter powder are too fragrant. Some doctors say that there is no need to go to such extremes and eat pig's trotters on a daily basis. Remove half of the skin when eating powder, and go for a run at Beibu Gulf Square two days a week, or go climbing Liufeng Mountain or visit Maoweihai Wetland Park on weekends. As long as you can control your weight within the normal range, fatty liver disease is reversible, and there is no need to take away the joy of life just to treat the disease.

In fact, after talking so much, it doesn’t mean that men’s health problems in Qinzhou are serious. It’s just that everyone is usually too good at dealing with it. If they feel uncomfortable, they always feel that “men can just endure it and let it go.” Or they are afraid of spending money to go to the hospital. In fact, a targeted physical examination every year only costs two to three hundred yuan. If a minor problem is detected and treated early, it is much more cost-effective than delaying it to become a serious illness. After all, there are elders above and younger ones below. It is the confidence of the family that one is in good health.