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Chronic Non-Bacterial Prostatitis

November 5, 2009 By 4 Comments

Chronic Non-Bacterial ProstatitisThis condition is an inflammation of the prostate that is often undiagnosed mostly because it is not discussed by men and their physicians. Symptoms may include urinary irritation, frequency, urgency, obstruction and pain. Some men complain of incomplete voiding, dribbling, sexual dysfunction, painful ejaculation or even pain in the penis/testis or even low back pain.

Causes of this condition may include stress, coffee, zinc deficiency, tight urinary sphincter muscles, infrequent ejaculation or even dehydration.

Naturopathic Options: Commonly prescribed natural medicines include zinc, quercitin, zinc, cernilton (bee pollen), saw palmetto and stinging nettle, however, identifying and treating the underlying cause is essential as one of the basic tenets of naturopathy. Furthermore, possible herb-drug interactions may also complicate the matter and should be discussed before supplementation.

Dr. Hoo’s suggestion: Metagenics’ Ultra Prostagen and Concentrated Ultra Prostagen contain a blend of raw prostate concentrate, zinc, pumpkin seed, stinging nettles, lycopene, and Vitamin D amongst other ingredients. Either of these formulations may be appropriate to manage symptoms of non-bacterial prostatitis.

Advice from Dr. Aaron Hoo: If you or someone you know experience symptoms associated with chronic prostatitis, I encourage you to discuss it with me or another healthcare professional in order to treat and prevent recurrence.

Foods options include: brazil nuts, pumpkin seeds, cereal, oysters, & red meat as sources of zinc. Additional options to manage non-bacterial prostatitis may include a healthy diet, regular exercise, optimal hydration, stress reduction and regular ejaculation.

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About Dr. Aaron Hoo

Dr. Aaron Christopher Hoo graduated from the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine in Toronto. Prior to this, he completed his Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology at the University of British Columbia. Aaron has a private medical practice in downtown Vancouver and travels across North America as a keynote speaker, educating doctors on functional medicine and clinical nutrition. In addition, he is a clinical supervisor and faculty member at the Boucher Institute of Naturopathic Medicine.

Dr. Hoo is also a medical writer for a Canadian health sciences corporation and past contributing writer with the Canadian Disability Magazine; he currently serves as a board member at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine. In his spare time, he maintains a balance of spirituality and wellness through travel, regular exercise, yoga and meditation.

  • wujiang

    A prostatitis patient recovered experience

    I was ever been a prostatitis patient for seven years . The prostate expand and pain sharply. My waist pain, dizzy and weak. I had seen many famous doctors in china , had used the microwave, infrared ray scan, acupoint injection , squeeze medicine into anus to cure the disease. But I failed. I had taken many kinds of Chinese herb medicine secret recipe and used many kinds of specific medicine that advertised Chinese medicine from one Chinese prostate hospital medicine every day, it only can relieve my pain ,I wasn’t cured. Recently ,I visited a famous prostate disease research institute. (They said that the cure rate is 85%. ) I was aroused by their method. And I used new cured plan which I synthesized seven years experience. By this way ,I was recovered only in one month .All the symptom disappear, and the prostate secretion test wasn’t found bacteria. The whole body felt relaxed ,the idea of committing suicide all gone. And I felt the life is so beautiful and valuable. It is said that a prolonged illness makes a doctor of patient. When you have this illness, you can learn from experience, and choose the best cured way. Absorb the good points of the every doctors ,and create the new way. As a recovered patient, I know the pain of prostatitis patient deeply. So I like to share my experience with the cyber acquaintance.

    My cure method include seven parts. (It is specialize in chronic prostatitis. The acute prostatitis is very easy to cure, if you eat portalaca olerrcea for ten some days continuously, you can recover.)

    　Point and whole synthetical balance treatment

    1. Eat four kinds of nature product every day . Bee honey, royal jelly, bee pollen and propolis. Building up your health, increasing sexual activity and enhancing immunity ,etc. Increasing the content of zinc element in prostate. I can guide you how to use them together.

    2. Use Chinese medicine powder ( involve scolopendra subspinipes mutilans, phellodendron, Chinese schneid, elaphe moellendorffi,etc) Ten kinds of ingredient powder mix a kinds of special vinegar product , external use to cover two acupoints that connect everyday. Prostatitis is so difficult to cure because eating medicine is very difficult permeate prostate. The medicine consistency can’t last for a long time. External use covering acupoints can effect the prostate all the time and maintained high consistency.

    3. Take a Chinese herb medicine prescription everyday . This prescription can attack prostate and kill the germ in urinary organ. But the medicine will not sap your vitality. There isn’t side effect. I can provide this prescription.

    4. Boil some Chinese medicine , pour into a basin, and sit on the basin’ s medical water for ten minutes before bath every day. So the medicine can kill germ in urethra and scrotum, effect to prostate directly. The medicine won’t be absorbed by intestines and stomach. There is no side effect. I can provide the prescription.

    5. Practise Qi Gong (a system of deep breathing exercise) I can guide you to practise . Stimulate the circulation of the blood and cause the muscles and joints to relax. Increase immunity, impact the focus. This kinds of Qi Gong is very safe and there is no deviation. But you can’t practise other kinds of QiGong freely , because some kinds of Qi Gong aren’t corresponding to prostatitis.

    6.Use K-01 prostate rehabilitator for half an hour when you go to bed every day . K–01 prostate rehabilitator is a help-yourself physiotherapy apparatus which cures BPH . Employing the alternative operation of the high frequency non-thermal effect and magnetic kick. It serves to diminish inflammation, relieve pain, destroy harmful microorganisms, improve local micro-blood circulation and is very effective in curing frequent micuition, urgency of urination, painful urinary stuttering , and dysuria caused by prostatitis. It only need to put it on perineum.

    7. No smoking (If you can’t stop, try not to smoke so much ). Stop drinking, stop piquancy foods (such as capsicum ,ginger ,garlic, pepper ,etc) , stop eating fried foods, bacon, and flame broiled meat.( because the temperature is about 300 celsius degree, so the protein had been denaturalization , the protein had been hot. If you cook it by water , the temperature will not exceed 100 celsius degree.

  • richard flamos

    I have had prostatitis for 10 months. Medical doctor put me on several different antibotics but nothing has worked. Please contact me regarding your recommended cure and it’s cost. thank you.

    richard flamos

  • http://www.doctorschoicenutrition.ca Dr. Aaron Hoo

    Hi Richard. Non-bacterial prostatitis is much more common compared to bacterial prostatitis; since you have been diagnosed with the former, it’s no wonder the antibiotics didn’t do much to improve your condition.
    The causes of non-bacterial prostatitis are unknown to the allopathic medical community. From the naturopathic perspective, causes may include the following: stress, food sensitivities/allergies, emotional distress (eg. anger), yeast overgrowth etc.

    Treatment and cost would depend on identifying the underlying causal factors. I would suggest that you consult with a naturopathic doctor.

    Aaron Hoo, ND
    http://www.doctorschoicenutrition.ca

  • Glenn

    One causal agent to chronic non-bacterial prostatitis that has little information is sit-ups (crunches) excessive exercise. I had many of the symptoms as explained in the Wise/Anderson book “A Headache in the Pelvis”. My doctor gave me antibiotics even though I told her I suspected that these exercises were the cause. I decided to discontinue these antibiotics after 3 days because I did not believe these would do any good. The pelvic floor muscles get substantial strain after doing these exercises for a long extended period of time. When I stopped doing these exercises at the gym on an incline board, the symptoms went away after about 7 weeks progressively improving. It’s any easy hypothesis to prove, if I do sit-ups I can feel these symptoms start to
    be reintroduced, stop them they go away.