Alcohol Injections

[David]

Hello and thank you for reading my blog.

Does anyone know anything about the ethanol injection?

http://video.answers.com/injections-help-enlarged-prostate-175530797

Thank You,

David

[Arnon Krongrad, MD]

There are some papers on it for benign prostate enlargement, which is not prostatitis.

[David]

http://www.johnshopkinshealthalerts.com/alerts/enlarged_prostate/Jo...

[David]

I have to say that I'm more than a little disappointed on how people have responded to my question.  I understand the frustration, pain, and mental distress that comes with prostatitis.  But going off does not reduce one's stress level.  Which most of us know is a trigger to our condition.

 

Nobody's response with the exception of Dr. Krongrad comes remotely close to commenting on my question.

[Arnon Krongrad, MD]

Blake, we don't know the cause, although going through normal male puberty seems a necessary step. In some inherited anomalies, e.g. 5-alpha reductase deficiency, the prostate and BPH do not develop, which implicates dihydrotestosterone (DHT), a testosterone metabolite, as a required hormone

[Arnon Krongrad, MD]

It makes sense given that you need puberty and its surge of testosterone to help develop the prostate, but has anyone looked into this avenue? This I have not seen.