Prostate health books

Really reliable reading materials are basically concentrated in three categories: "popular science written by urologists in tertiary hospitals, traditional Chinese medicine care guides published by regular traditional Chinese medicine publishing houses, and entry-level professional manuals for urology." All three-no publications with "radical cure", "miraculous effect" and "top-secret folk prescription" printed on the cover are all IQ taxes, worth half a dime, and may even harm you.

I went to the urology department with my elders for a review a while ago. He suffered from recurring chronic prostatitis in the past two years. There were nearly ten related books piled on the bedside. The attending doctor glanced at them and threw half a pile to him. He said he would keep only two books: one was "Questions and Answers on Prostate Diseases" published by the People's Medical Publishing House, and the other was a nursing manual compiled by a doctor from a regular traditional Chinese medicine hospital. The rest were either nonsense remedies or boasting about the efficacy. If you follow them, you might damage your liver and kidneys first.

There are actually two distinct routes for such books on the market today. No one is absolutely good or absolutely bad. It all depends on your needs. For example, popular science books with a Western medicine background are basically content collected by clinicians. They are all questions that have been asked 800 times in daily outpatient clinics: Is frequent urination a sign of prostatitis? Does hyperplasia definitely turn into cancer? Is it okay to have elevated PSA? Under what circumstances should we take medicine and under what circumstances should we observe? It’s true. All the conclusions are supported by clinical data. Later, my elder followed the reminder in the book and changed his previous habit of sitting for three to four hours to play mahjong. He stood up and circled twice every 40 minutes. With the medicine prescribed by the doctor, the previous problem of waking up three or four times at night was reduced to once at most in less than half a year. He was much more comfortable.

Of course, don’t think that everything related to traditional Chinese medicine is all lies. I have a friend who is a game planner. He suffered from chronic non-bacterial prostatitis for two years and took a lot of western medicine. Later, the doctor recommended him to read "Traditional Chinese Medicine for Prostate Diseases" published by the China Traditional Chinese Medicine Publishing House. He adjusted his diet according to the therapeutic prescriptions in it, and took 15 minutes of warm water sitz bath every day. The tingling symptoms gradually disappeared. But here is a warning: Books on traditional Chinese medicine must be read by regular publishers, and the authors must be qualified traditional Chinese medicine practitioners. The kind of books that don’t even dare to write about the author will tell you “ancestral secret recipes to cure hyperplasia”. You can hide as far away as possible. I met a patient in the nephrology department before. He took unknown Chinese medicine pills for half a year according to the folk prescriptions in the pamphlets bought on the roadside. The prostate problem did not improve. He first raised the creatinine level and stayed in the hospital for more than half a month before he was transferred back.

The last time I visited a bookstore, I came across a book on prostate care with a foreign expert’s cover printed on the cover, claiming it was “a work by a distinguished expert from the American Urological Association.” However, the author’s profile didn’t even include a practice number, and it actually said “Frequent sex can flush the prostate and prevent inflammation.”

Many people think that this kind of book should be read only when you are sick. In fact, this is not the case. Programmers who sit for a long time, truck drivers who run long distances, and men over 40 years old can learn not to hold back their urine, drink less high-alcohol alcohol, and not eat spicy food too much. It is much more reliable than waiting for the pain to sit still and then rushing to find home remedies. Of course, don’t take the content in the book as an edict. After all, everyone’s situation is different. The same problem is frequent urination. Some people drink too much water, some have inflammation, some have hyperplasia, or even tumors. If you really feel uncomfortable, go to the hospital for a checkup as soon as possible. The content in the book can only be a popular science reference to help you avoid pitfalls. If you really want to treat a disease, you must listen to the doctor.

To put it bluntly, the criteria for choosing this kind of book are not so fancy, just look at two points: whether the author has formal professional qualifications, and whether the publishing house is a serious medical publishing house. If you encounter those who dare to pat their chests and say "a one-step cure will never reoccur", just close it and walk away. Most prostate problems are caused by long-term bad habits, so there is no good thing that can be done in one step.