Prostatitis Definition

    Prostatitis means inflammation of the prostate. You can also think of it as swelling of the prostate. The inflammation, or swelling, is caused by white blood cells that are entering the prostate in response to something.

     Exactly what the white blood cells are responding to is considered controversial.

     We know with certainty that acute prostatitis is often caused by infection.

     The possible causes of chronic prostatitis are infection, obstruction of the prostatic ducts, reflux of urine or semen into the prostate, autoimmune disease, allergic reaction, neurologic disease, muscular disease, trauma, or other causes. All these hypotheses should be researched, and the first step in researching the cause of disease is studying its pathology.