Patient's question:
I have prostatitis, and my wife has been afraid to have sex with me, afraid of getting infected. Does prostatitis cause infection?Doctor's answer:
How prostatitis is infected needs to be differentiated and analyzed. The inflammation of prostatitis is generally not infectious to women, because even in bacterial prostatitis, the prostate gland carries only a small amount of bacteria, and it is often difficult to infect the female reproductive tract. This is because the female reproductive tract has a very good barrier system. Under normal circumstances, there are large amounts of various kinds of miscellaneous bacteria in the female reproductive tract, and it is not afraid of the bacteria from prostatitis. Special cases are known to all, such as women who already have some vaginitis, or when the perinatal barrier is damaged.