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If you are a man (especially aged over 50 years) and have the following symptoms:
- Weak urinary stream;
- Intermittent urinary stream;
- Not lampias during urination;
- Feeling to urinate again after urinating;
- Discharge the remaining urine for a few seconds at the end of urination (terminal dribbling);
- Frequency of urination is not normal (too often);
- Waking at night due to frequent urination;
- It’s hard to hold urine;
- Pain when urinating;
- Bloody urine / hematuria
Be alert to the presence of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) or enlarged prostate are classified as benign.
Based on the research, if you are aged over 50 years, chances are you have an enlarged prostate was 50%. When you are aged 80-85 years, chances are it increased to 90%
What are the symptoms of BPH?
Sometimes people do not feel any symptoms of BPH, but if the prostate enlargement continues to grow will eventually urge the urethra / ureter outside resulting in discomfort.
What should I do?
You need to do UROFLOWMETRYexamination to detect prostate enlargement.
What is uroflowmetry?
Uroflowmetry is an examination to determine the firmness of the flow of urine to detect the presence of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) or prostate enlargement.
Preparation needs to be done
There is no special preparation. Patients will be asked to drink a lot and urinate on a device that uses a detector (probe). Furthermore, the computer will analyze the strength of radiance.
Uroflowmetri with ultrasound examination should be with the agreement while it can be directly uroflowmetri.