Men's Health Guangzhou

Currently, the top three most common health problems among men aged 18-60 in Guangzhou are prostate-related diseases, metabolic syndrome, and emotional and psychological abnormalities. The prevalence difference among different occupations and social groups is 12% higher than the national average. For medical treatment, priority is given to public tertiary urology departments/andrology departments and community health service centers with dedicated men's health posts. Don't trust "special effects and radical cure" advertisements on the streets and short video platforms.

The prostate is like a "delicate valve" in men. In Guangzhou, an environment with long summers and short winters and a lukewarm diet, the probability of problems is 4 percentage points higher than in northern cities. Last week, I met a familiar programmer named A Ming at the Starbucks on the top of the post. He was 29 years old. He held the medical record bag of Sun Yat-sen Third Hospital and smiled bitterly. He said that he had worked the night shift for 3 years and that he suddenly had frequent urination last week and was unable to hold a 2-hour demand meeting. Only when he went for a check-up did he find out that he had chronic prostatitis and excessive uric acid. The doctor said that he sat for 12 hours a day without moving.

Last month, I followed a team from the Guangzhou Urology Association to a free clinic at the manufacturing plant in Hualong, Panyu. I touched 120 male workers over the age of 40 in half a day. More than half had abdominal circumferences of more than 90cm, and a third were found to have high blood pressure. They didn't know it at all. Most of them thought "they are fine if they can eat and sleep." There were also a few who had been urinating frequently for almost two years, thinking it was a normal symptom of age. In the end, it was found to be mild to moderate prostatic hyperplasia, and they were prescribed medicine worth dozens of yuan, which improved within half a month. It’s also interesting to say that men in Guangzhou have a very clear understanding of health: Financial men in Tianhe Zhujiang New Town spend tens of thousands of yuan on high-end physical examinations every year, and even their testosterone levels are tested monthly. Most of the farmers and workers in the outer suburbs have very low blood pressure, and the health literacy gap between the two groups can be more than 20%.

Regarding prostate care, which everyone is most concerned about, there is actually no unified standard answer in the industry. For example, Guangzhou people love to drink herbal tea. Most andrologists in Western medicine recommend that patients with chronic prostatitis should avoid the bitter and cold Wuhua tea and Gotu kola tea. They are afraid of aggravating the poor local blood circulation in the pelvis and aggravating the problem of lower abdominal distension. ； However, doctors from the Lingnan School of Traditional Chinese Medicine have a different view. If the patient is diagnosed with damp-heat prostatitis, the symptomatic dampness-removing herbal tea can relieve the symptoms of burning pain during urination. There is no need to kill all herbal teas at once. There is also the timing of PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) screening. The guidelines of the Andrology Branch of the Chinese Medical Association recommend that men over 50 years old should be screened once a year, and those with a family history of prostate cancer should be screened earlier than 45 years old. However, many grassroots clinicians believe that if there are no symptoms such as difficulty urinating and lower abdominal distension, and no family history, it is enough to start screening at the age of 55. There is no need to over-screen and increase anxiety.

Many people complain that it is difficult to register for men's departments in tertiary hospitals. In fact, most community health service centers in Guangzhou's Yuexiu District and Haizhu District have opened convenient accounts for men's health screenings. Free PSA screenings, blood pressure and blood sugar tests are also available around Men's Health Day in October every year. There is no need to go to a large hospital and queue up all morning. If you feel that there are too many public institutions, you can also choose regular private men's institutions, but you must first check whether they have a medical institution license on the official website of the National Health Commission. Anyone who says "3 days to radically cure prostatitis" or "100% cure of erectile dysfunction" will turn away and leave, it is definitely a scam. I met a young man from Baiyun District before. He believed a street advertisement and spent more than 20,000 yuan on "prostate infusion." In the end, the inflammation was not cured but worsened the infection. He went to a tertiary hospital and spent several hundred yuan to cure it.

When I was doing a free clinic in Zengcheng Zhengguo Town, I met a 52-year-old fruit farmer. He carried lychees up and down the mountain every day. His physical fitness was better than many 30-year-old young men in the city. He just had a good face. He had been urinating frequently for almost three years and refused to go see him. He said, "A handful of years old." "I'm sorry, this is embarrassing." I finally persuaded him for a long time before getting checked. It was just benign prostatic hyperplasia. I took medicine for two weeks. Later, I asked someone to bring me a pound of Guiwei to express my gratitude. He said that now he wakes up every three or four times instead of every three or four times at night, and he sleeps much more comfortably.

In fact, Guangzhou's medical resources are ranked among the best in the country. Whether you are a native of Guangzhou or a new Guangzhou native who comes here to work hard, if you are really uncomfortable, don't bear it, and don't look for remedies. Face is not as important as your body. After all, only with a good body can you make good money and eat well.