Epididymitis
is a common disease that often bothers young and middle-aged men. The infection
can bring much pain and discomfort to male patients, such as testicular pain,
redness and tenderness, swelling scrotum, lump on testicle, discharge from
penis. It often accompanied with a urinary track infection (UTI), so patients
also suffer from painful and frequent urination. Many patients have to live
with this disease for several times because of the relapse. It’s difficult for
some of patients to get a full recovery. Therefore, an efficient recurrent
epididymitis treatment is very important.
In
order to have a full cure, it’s necessary to find out the causes of recurrent
epididymitis. There are many factors can induce the relapse. Some patients stop
taking medicines immediately when the symptoms disappear. They think the
disappearing of symptoms indicate the infection is cured fully. But it’s not.
The residual infection will cause a flare up, thus, the symptoms will appear
again. Therefore, it’s essential for patients to finish the whole course of the
medication and follow the prescription of their doctors. Other factors like
living habits can also contribute to the recurrence, such as eating spicy food,
drinking alcohol, smoking, etc.
If
the relapse of epididymitis is caused by unhealthy living habits, patients
should keep lifestyle changes, even though the infection is cured completely.
If it’s caused by taking medicines improperly, patients should take medicines again
until the whole course is finished.
For
patients who have no complete cure by taking conventional medicines like
antibiotics, herbal medicine called Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory Pill may be
a great choice for it has high effectiveness. As a herbal remedy, it contains herbs like angelica
sinensis, saffron, semen persicae, and radix paeoniae rubra, which can provide good effects on improving blood and
Qi flow, so as to relieve the pain and swelling. The urinary symptoms can also
be eliminated with this herbal remedy because herbs like talcum, antago
seed, dianthus superbus, and polygonum aviculare have properties of inducing
diuresis to relieve strangury. Other natural herbs in this medicine have strong
bacteria-killing property, so that the pathogenic bacteria like E.coli can be
eradicated. Thus, the infection won’t recur.
