Patient's question:
I was recently diagnosed with frequent recurring urinary urgency, dysuria, and lower body pain due to prostatitis. My family members are very worried. I would like to ask if prostatitis can be infectious?Doctor's answer:
From a medical perspective, in clinical diagnosis, the vast majority of chronic prostatitis cannot be identified as having a pathogen, and it is classified as non-bacterial prostatitis. This chronic inflammation will never be infectious. In another case, clinically, a relatively small proportion of chronic prostatitis is caused by trichomonas or fungi, or by chlamydia or mycoplasma infection, which is also known as specific prostatitis in clinical diagnosis.