Prostatitis is an unpleasant, dangerous disease in men. Unfortunately, it is by no means rare. The treatment of this disease is much easier to carry out at an early stage. Therefore, diagnosis is extremely important. The main analysis for her is an analysis of the secretion of the prostate. Most are frightened of this procedure and considers it unpleasant. It really is.
However, it is extremely difficult for a doctor to make a correct diagnosis without this analysis, which is why it is necessary. Therefore, many are prescribed an analysis of the secretion of the prostate. Deciphering it will be considered in this article.
What is prostate secretion?
Before you understand the features of the analysis of prostate secretion, you need to find out what it is. The secret of their prostate gland stands out . It is present in the body only in men. Secretion occurs during intercourse. It comes out with sperm through the urethra. About a third of the fluid leaving the penis is the secret of the prostate .
The main function of the secret is childbearing. It is thanks to him that sperm pass through the urethra without damage. This is possible due to the fact that it gives sperm a more fluid consistency, which improves its permeability. In addition, it helps to maintain sperm activity after they leave a man’s body.
The composition of the secret is quite voluminous. It includes a large number of antimicrobial nutrients. His condition, in fact, shows the state of the prostate gland, therefore, analysis of the secretion of the prostate (decryption should be competent) is so important in the diagnosis.
When is an analysis necessary?
The doctor prescribes this analysis if the patient has the following symptoms:
- pain in the groin or in its area;
- painful urination;
- urine in the process of urination leaves in small portions, the pressure of the stream is weak;
- the patient often wants to use the toilet, especially at night.
Contraindications
It should be noted that the analysis is not always possible. There are a number of situations in which the analysis of prostate secretion is prohibited. These include inflammatory processes in the body. They do not have to be associated with the prostate gland. They can be in the arm, leg, or in any other part of the body .
High temperatures from thirty-eight degrees are the basis for canceling the analysis.
Also, an analysis of prostate secretion should not be carried out if the patient has exacerbation of hemorrhoids or fissures, both internal and external, of the anus.
With tuberculosis of the prostate, analysis is not performed.
If such symptoms are found, you should immediately contact a urologist. Diseases of the prostate gland affect the reproductive function of the body, therefore, an operational response to the first syndromes is extremely important.
How is the analysis carried out?
Before you begin the analysis of the secretion of the prostate (decryption is carried out later), preparation for it is necessary. Some time before the procedure, you can not enter into intimacy. The exact date is set by each doctor in his own way, on average, it is equal to four to six days. Immediately before the analysis, an enema should be made and the bladder empty.
After this, the patient lies on his side on the right side, rests his elbow and knee on the couch. A doctor, by training a urologist, must wear medical gloves, grease the index finger with Vaseline or a special gel, and carefully insert it into the anus .
After that, he must detect the prostate and evaluate its condition, based on the shape, consistency, symmetry, and so on.
Next should be an alternate massage of each of the prostate lobes. And at the end, the secretion must be collected in a sterile jar, test tube or other container.
The procedure is actually very fast, it takes about two minutes.
It happens that the secret does not come out. In this case, the patient should go to the toilet. The first portion of urine will contain the secret necessary for diagnosis. It must be submitted for analysis, the results of which will be decoded by the doctor. The decryption process is crucial. It is during him that the doctor understands what the patient suffers from, as a result of which he can prescribe the appropriate treatment.
Much attention is paid to white blood cells. If their number is higher than normal, treatment is needed.
Here's how to analyze prostate secretion. Decryption will be discussed later.
Decryption Features
As a result of the tests, as mentioned earlier, the doctor decrypts them .
The analysis result contains two types of parameters:
The first type of parameters includes the smell, quantity, consistency and acidity of the secretion.
The second includes lipoid bodies, leukocytes, epithelial cells, Betther crystals.
Analysis of prostate secretion: norm and deviations
To understand whether the indicators differ from normal or not, you need to compare them with the norm. However, the result may vary due to, for example, a microscope. Therefore, it is necessary to compare the results with the norms of the particular laboratory in which the analysis of prostate secretion was performed .
For some reason, many do not pay attention to the fact that the amount of secreted secretion is small, considering that there is nothing to worry about, but this is not entirely true. The rate of discharge ranges from half to two milliliters.
The density of the secret is also important, since it is this indicator that affects the reproductive function of men. In addition, due to the high density of secreted secretions, the reproductive organ may be impaired.
Decryption process
After an analysis of the secretion of the prostate is taken, a decryption (the norm will be taken into account) is carried out as follows.
First, the indicators are compared with normal. In this case, the amount of secreted secretion ranges from two drops to four milliliters. The color of the selection is similar to white, but it can not be called snow-white. The consistency is thick, rather viscous, the pH is defined as acidic .
White blood cells should be in the range from zero to twelve. Red blood cells should be single. Amyloids are not present, while there should be many lecithin grains, at least half.
What happens with diseases?
If the patient suffers from prostatitis, an analysis of the secretion of the prostate will turn out to be different (the norm will not correspond to the obtained indicators). Moreover, they can be used to determine at what stage the disease is now - it is chronic, or at the stage of exacerbation.
If tests were taken at the time of the exacerbation of the disease, the results of the transcript will be as follows. First of all, the color of the selections will differ. It will be yellow with a brown tint. Moreover, the secret will be muddy. Pay attention to color! If the color of the secret is red, then prostate cancer is likely.
Another sure sign of exacerbation of prostatitis is the sweet smell of discharge. The number of leukocytes is up to half. Lecithin grains will be presented in a single copy.
Thus, the differences between the analyzes of a healthy person and a person suffering from exacerbation of prostatitis are obvious. What does an analysis of prostate secretion (transcript) look like in a patient with chronic prostatitis?
White blood cells increase at times. In a chronic disease, there will be about ten, if the value is higher, the urologist will make a conclusion about the exacerbated form of the disease. The secret may be too thick. There will be few lecithin grains, which ultimately can lead to disruption of the penis. The smell of a secret, just as with an exacerbation of the disease, will be sweetish. The color will be brown with a yellow tint .
If the prostatitis is chronic, but not bacterial, the indicators will be different.
The color will be brown, in some cases it may be brown. The secret itself will be muddy. No specific odor will be observed. White blood cells will be within normal limits. Lecithin grains are single. Red blood cells will be present, occupying more than half of the field of view.
Conclusion
We considered such concepts as analysis of prostate secretion, decoding, white blood cells, and norm. This is a rather unpleasant procedure, but, more importantly, it can be used to determine with certainty whether the patient has prostatitis, in what form it is, in what way it is better to treat it.
Moreover, according to the results of the analysis, prostate cancer can be detected. Therefore, they should not be neglected. Take care of your health, because it is much easier to prevent the disease than to treat its neglected form.