Patient's question:
Last week, I went out for beer with an old comrade-in-arms. However, during dinner, I noticed he wasn't in the best mood and seemed very negative. I didn't know what was wrong. Yesterday, I heard from his child that he has benign prostatic hyperplasia. I don't know what that condition is.Doctor's answer:
1. Weak urine flow, thinning of the urine stream, and dribbling: Due to the obstruction caused by a fibrotic prostate, patients need to exert more force to overcome the resistance during urination, making it difficult to urinate. The fibrotic prostate compresses the urethra, causing the urine stream to become thin. As the condition progresses, symptoms such as intermittent urination and post-urination dribbling may also reappear.2. Hematuria: The presence of blood in the urine is called hematuria, also known as urinary bleeding. Under normal circumstances, urine does not contain red blood cells. In medicine, after centrifuging the patient's urine and examining it under a microscope, if there are more than 5 red blood cells per high-power field, it is diagnosed as hematuria.
3. Anterior urinary retention: This occurs in late-stage patients with severe benign prostatic hyperplasia.