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There is a prostatitis in women?

Natalia: Hello. My husband suffers from chronic prostatitis, have heard that kind of women that can't be, or am I wrong and can get infected from her husband?

The answer of the doctor-doctor: Hello. It is the concept which is embedded in the disease "prostate", women, of course, does not happen. Get it from her husband is not possible, due to the fact that the prostate in women is missing. However, many doctors in the term "female prostate", invest the inflammatory process in the gland of the Skin, a vestigial organ located in the urethra (the back wall). Incidentally, iron is not present in all women, it selects the secret – it's the equivalent of that produced by the prostate in men.

Another "prostatitis in women is andexit, inflammation of the uterine appendages, which develops after there introduced pathogens. If Your husband revealed Trichomonas, Mycoplasma or Ureaplasma, You can really catch and then there will be symptoms of andexit or female prostatitis.