How long does it take for bacterial culture of prostate fluid to produce results?

Semen bacterial culture is mainly used to detect the types of bacteria contained in semen. Intestinal pathogenic bacteria testing can assist in the analysis of prostatitis, determine the pathogenic bacteria involved and their drug sensitivity, guide clinical treatment, and can also evaluate the treatment effect and serve as one of the criteria for recovery. At present, the diagnosis of bacterial prostatitis mainly relies on the four-cup detection method to locate and shape the bacteria. However, because the shaping method is complicated and consumes time and money, there are many positive and false negative results. There is little value in guessing the effects of treatment.

In addition, many prostatitis patients are of non-bacterial type, so semen bacterial culture is of little value. Most prostatitis is currently caused by careless diet and work and rest time. As long as Chinese herbal medicines are used for symptomatic treatment and maintenance, it can generally be cured.

Unsuitable groups: Patients with damage to the external urethra orifice are not suitable for immediate semen collection. Taboos before inspection:

(1) Semen collection should be done after abstinence for more than 5 days. Otherwise it will affect the inspection results.

(2) Antibiotics should be stopped before specimen collection. Because after antibiotics enter the body, they can reach every tissue and organ in the body in a short period of time, and even inhibit the growth and reproduction of microorganisms such as bacteria in the specimen collection in the culture medium, resulting in false negative results and misdiagnosis of some pathogenic bacteria. Therefore, if the patient has been treated with antibiotics when seeking medical treatment, whether it is for the treatment of prostatitis or other organ infections, he or she should generally stop taking the medicine for 3 days before collecting urine, semen and other specimens, as well as routine physical examination, isolation and analysis of pathogenic bacteria. Of course, in some special circumstances, such as acute prostatitis or when waiting cannot be done for some other special reasons, you do not need to worry about this.

(3) Long foreskin can cause positive symptoms. Because there are often a variety of bacteria or other microorganisms on the urethra or the urethra orifice mucosa of patients with prostatitis, as well as on the skin of the genitals, collected semen and other specimens are often contaminated by these microorganisms that exist on the surface of the genitals. The microbial strains collected from these contaminated specimens can cause semen and other specimens that were originally tested for sterility to produce positive results for bacteria, making people mistakenly believe that the patient's prostate or other organs in the urinary system have infections or even serious infections. Therefore, before collecting specimens, you must pay attention to cleaning the vulva and check whether the foreskin is too long and whether there is infection.

(4) Collecting semen specimens The reproductive organs should be carefully cleaned before collection.