Thursday, June 24, 2010

What Are The Prostate Cancer Symptoms?


One of the worst health problems that man (the males) can experience is prostate cancer. It is the enlargement of the prostate glands and if won’t do anything about it, it might get worst by the minute. To make sure that a man above 40 has no prostate cancer, he should be aware of the prostate cancer symptoms. Early warning signs include immediate need to urinate, frequent and/or painful urination, urinating more than three times a night and/or a delay in starting urination.


There are actually some home remedies for prostate cancer but the best thing you can do is consult a doctor and openly discuss with him any bothersome symptoms or changes in your urinary habits.


It is best that you should go to him as possible if you have been experiencing one or more of these prostate cancer symptoms or early signs: your urine has poor stream, it becomes asymptomatic, you have the untimely urge to urinate even if you have already done so, the frequency of your urination becomes erratic and there is a trace of blood in the urine. The last one can be experienced especially when you feel pain during urination.


If you don’t do something about these prostate cancer symptoms, it will escalate to more serious symptoms like pain in the bones particularly in the back and the pelvis area; your lymph glands become enlarged and kidney failure may start to arise. You can see some obvious prostate cancer symptoms like weight loss, always getting tired for no apparent reason, anemia and loss of appetite.


You have to know that prostate cancer typically spreads to the bony skeleton and the lymph glands of the pelvis. Bony metastases commonly involve the lower spine and pelvic girdle causing backache. If you have difficulty in urinating, you feel pain in your back and you see traces of blood on your urine, it’s high time to go to the doctor.


But it’s much better to go to your doctor periodically for a pre-check up. You don’t have to wait to experience these prostate cancer symptoms. If you’re already at your over-the-hill age, it’s best to go to him immediately and as early as possible to prevent enlarged prostate and prostate cancer.


Then, it is also highly advisable that you adapt a very healthy lifestyle. Just because you’re old doesn’t mean you don’t have to do periodic exercises. You need to go out and get some fresh air, you need to mingle more with other people, you need to get some diversion, you need to balance your diet and most of all, you need to be happy in life.

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

What is Prostate Cancer And What To Do To Prevent or Eliminate It?

Most men over 40 will start to experience some problems in urinating. Sometimes, the will feel an immediate need to urinate even though they are not that drinkers of water. Others can have frequent and/or painful urination. Some even have worse cases like urinating more than three times a night and the worst of all the worst, a delay in starting urination.


If a man at this age is having these kinds of signs, then, he better beware for he might have prostate cancer. If a woman has problems with menopause or UTI (urinary tract infection), men can be victims of prostate cancer and the best thing he needs to do is to visit his doctor.


For most people, especially the older ones and who has already been experiencing prostate problems, they would think that there is no more hope for them to get cured. What they thought was they just need to go through life by adapting a healthy lifestyle and taking some precautionary measures to live a life with prostate problems especially prostate cancer.


But little do they know or maybe they haven’t heard from other people yet that there are some individuals who have survived prostate cancer and not just survived but actually started to live a normal life without any of those problems anymore. Somehow, they have found a way to get rid of prostate cancer for good. Yes, you can say that you can prevent prostate cancer or you can still a vibrant life even though you have it but that doesn’t mean that you can’t get rid of it.


So, what are the means of getting rid of prostate cancer? Adapting a healthy lifestyle is one good way of eliminated this very dreadful disease. It is very important that a person with this type of cancer should start thinking about balancing his food intake. He needs to eat more alkaline-based food than acidic food like fruits and vegetables.


Some people might think that undergoing medical procedures like chemotherapy can be a big help. Yes, it is really a big help but undergoing those types of procedures can never guarantee total elimination of prostate cancer or cancer cells from the body. It can only prolong your life, it can only make you enjoy life more.


According to some herbalists and nutritionalists, the only way to get rid of prostate cancer is to change your lifestyle. There are many people who survived this ordeal by simply doing that. Try to consult your doctor or ask your dietician on how to go about a balanced diet.