Patient's question:
Male, 60 years old, has had weak erections for a year, with short duration, affecting sexual intercourse and difficulty in insertion. Is this phenomenon a sign of a certain disease? How can it be resolved?Doctor's answer:
Erectile dysfunction refers to a man's inability to achieve or maintain an erection during sexual activity, or the inability to complete normal sexual intercourse, or the inability to insert the penis into the vagina for sexual intercourse.Causes: Psychological factors, neurological, endocrine, urinary and genital organ diseases, pelvic organ blood supply insufficiency.
Prevention:
1. Eliminate psychological factors.
2. Reduce sexual frequency and masturbation.
3. Adjust diet.
4. Improve physical fitness.
5. Use medications cautiously. Examples include Wuzi Yanzong Wan, Yishen Ling Granules, and Xianle Xiong Capsules.
6. Psychological, non-hormonal, endocrine, vascular, vacuum erection devices, passive erection methods, and penile implant surgery.
My penis is not hard enough during sex. Solutions include:
- Mentally focus (release psychological burdens).
- Actively continue (be persistent).
- Moderately (balance quantity).
- Nutritionally enhance (build a solid foundation).
Dietary adjustment: Eat more aphrodisiac foods, such as dog meat, mutton, sparrows, walnuts, ox testicles, sheep kidneys, etc. Additionally, zinc-rich foods like oysters, beef, chicken liver, eggs, peanuts, pork, and chicken, as well as arginine-rich foods like Chinese yam, ginkgo, frozen tofu, eel, sea cucumber, cuttlefish, and octopus, can help improve sexual function. Avoid dietary restrictions.