Varicocele is a common disease in urology, and its general symptoms are not obvious. However, severe varicocele can affect sperm quality and lead to male infertility, which requires surgical treatment. Therefore, it is very important to prevent varicocele in life. So what should we do to prevent varicocele? Men must pay attention to it.

This should be done to prevent varicocele

1. Understanding Diseases

To prevent varicocele, we should start with a correct understanding of the disease. We should not be shy of asking and seeing a doctor, which will lead to the aggravation of the condition and even the serious consequences of male infertility.

2. Early prevention

According to the survey, varicocele is a disease that has begun in children and adolescents. It can occur as early as 6 years old and reach the peak in adolescence between 11 and 17 years old. The incidence of varicocele in children and adolescents can reach as high as 20%, which is much higher than that in adults.

3. Pay attention to diet

Teenagers should pay attention to dietary adjustment and avoid spicy and stimulating foods. At the same time, eat foods rich in vitamin E. Vitamin E has a certain function in the recovery of blood vessels. Regular consumption has a certain effect on the prevention and treatment of varicocele. Common foods rich in vitamin E include peanut oil, sesame oil, lettuce leaves, cabbage and so on.

4. Controlling Frequent Sexual Impulse

In adolescence, sexual impulse is more vigorous, and varicocele is related to sexual impulse and sexual organ hyperemia. Therefore, controlling frequent sexual impulse is also an important link in preventing varicocele in adolescents.

5. Attention to personal hygiene

Teenagers should pay attention to personal hygiene and change their underwear frequently in order to prevent skin itching and eczema caused by long-term contact with cotton underwear which is easy to absorb sweat and not easy to dry. At the same time, pay attention not to wear tight underwear, should wear cotton underwear with higher tightness, in order to help heat dissipation and sweat absorption, so as to achieve the effect of reducing the local temperature of scrotum and reducing gravity.

6. Avoid standing long

Avoid standing for as long as possible. If you have to stand for a long time in a working relationship, you'd better take turns to stand on two feet, that is, bend one foot slightly, let the weight of your body on the other foot, or turn your legs around, shake them off, and find opportunities to move around.

7. Change bad habits

No smoking, no alcohol, no stimulating food. Drinking more water and eating more fresh vegetables and fruits are very helpful for the prevention of varicocele.

8. Treatment of Reproductive Diseases

Timely treatment of genitourinary tract infections such as prostatitis, urethritis, etc., to reduce the chance of inflammation, is also an important means to prevent varicocele.

9. Early treatment

For patients with severe symptoms, abnormal semen routine examination and adolescent varicocele patients, high ligation of spermatic vein should be performed to treat them. In addition, if men with infertility after marriage are found to have abnormal semen, they also need to be operated as soon as possible to improve semen quality and fertility rate.

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