Do Not Abuse Antibiotics When Treating Prostatitis

Overuse of antibiotics is a serious mistake in the treatment of prostatitis at home and abroad. Even in regular hospitals, many doctors do not understand prostatitis well, but they still use large numbers of antibiotics for a long time, which is very easy to cause bacterial imbalance or drug resistance. Indications for the use of antibiotics are acute prostatitis and bacterial chronic prostatitis. But clinically, more common disease is chronic non-bacterial prostatitis, in which these patients should avoid the use of antibiotics. Under normal circumstances, the doctor is supposed to suggest the patient to take traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment of prostatitis, in which the herbal medicine Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory is a nice option. To figure out whether the prostatitis is bacterial or non-bacterial, doctors need to do the culture of prostatic fluid. However, many doctors don't like this process due to its complexity. To save time and energy, they solely rely on the leukocytosis in the prostatic fluid to decide whether to use antibiotics. In fact, even if the diagnosis is about bacterial prostatitis, there is no need for injection and infusion. When patients have acute bacterial prostatitis or chronic bacterial prostatitis, oral antibiotics should be used for 2 to 4 weeks or even 4 to 6 weeks. The cost of such a long time of injection and infusion is a troublesome challenge to the patient's life and work. Besides, the effects of oral antibiotics and intravenous antibiotics are almost the same. It is also worth mentioning that some patients with prostatitis may change their personality and appear to lack masculinity. For these patients, some doctors randomly use antibiotics without any examination basis, which will lead to a lot of trouble. This is an absolutely wrong treatment. Androgen supplementation should rely on strict indications, and after the exclusion of the contraindications of androgen supplementation, treatment should be carried out under close observation. Abuse of antibiotics is still common when it comes to treat inflammation, and often criticized by the medical community. We hope doctors and patients can pay attention to this issue. Don't abuse antibiotics just to save time. Treatment of prostatitis must depend on patience and perseverance, and having a scientific and rigorous attitude is also needed.