Category: Erectile Dysfunction - Part 2

The fact that alcohol has negative impact on potency has long been known. Moreover, ancient physicians had even a saying that claim that wine can cause desire, but would deprive of opportunity to perform it. It is no secret that alcohol is a poison that has destructive effect on all systems and individual organs of human body. And, male reproductive system is not an exception. At the same time there is a misconception that if…

Physiology of erection was studied in the late twentieth century, after the discovery of the important role of nitric oxide in vasodilatation process. Scientists believe that it is a nitric oxide that plays a crucial role in the erectile function. A significant role of nitric oxide is connected with the fact that it stimulates relaxation of the cavernous bodies and this in its turn contributes to penile erection.

About 10% of antibiotics can cause deterioration of potency in men. This list can include hypertensive pills, hormonal drugs, antidepressants and sedatives that suppress male hormones production.

So, antibiotics may cause temporary erectile dysfunction, which is more linked to the whole body weakening, rather than negative influence of drugs directly on potency. Especially brightly it was observed in sexually transmitted diseases treatment.

If treatment is ended, and sexual function didn’t restore, you should think about other possible factors, that may cause impotence, and seek help from sexual health specialist.

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Recommendation: During treatment period and at least 2 weeks after it, it is not recommended to conceive children, because antibiotics negatively affect sperm quality and composition, which can cause various pathologies development at the future baby.

Which Antibiotics can Reduce Potency?

The following antibiotics negatively affect potency:

• antidepressants;
• desipramine;
• chlorpromazine;
• trazodone;
• propranolol;
• verapamil;
• clonidine;
• ranitidine;
• gentamicin;
• cephalosporins;
• colimycine.

What to do to Protect Yourself?

1. Before you start taking these or that preparations it is necessary to coordinate treatment with the doctor. It is also important to consult a specialist if at the beginning of treatment you continue to take other medications that may be incompatible with antibiotics.
2. Ask an expert to assign additional drugs (Bifidus bacteria or probiotics), restoring the weakened body.
3. Be sure to follow dosage and treatment regimen because the undertreated infection can cause serious complications, including – impotence.
4. Carefully read instructions for use, there are always possible side effects.
5. During treatment, eat as much as possible products that enhance erection. They include seafood (shrimp, salmon, squid, mussels), nuts and greenery (parsley, spinach, green onions), eggs, lean meat, ginger.

Other Factors that Affect Potency

According to Canadian pharmacy, often complaints on erection deterioration after prolonged antibiotic treatment are groundless because this problem can be triggered by other factors.

• In the first place of this list, of course, alcohol. It’s no secret that alcoholic drinks by themselves adversely affect health, and even more so they are harmful in combination with antibiotics. As a result of uncontrolled consumption of large quantities of alcohol, male hormones production is disrupted, which can cause lack of erection or premature ejaculation during intimacy.
• Also, medical studies have proven that impotence cause can be smoking. Everyone knows the detrimental effect of nicotine on heart and lungs, but other than that, this chemical constricts blood vessels, which impairs blood circulation throughout the body, including, blood flow to the penis.
• Lack of erection at men is often caused by external factors affecting their psychological state. They include stress in the family and at work, depression, disturbance of day regimen, lack of sleep. All this sooner or later causes hormonal disruptions in the body and often leads to sexual passivity.
• Overweight may significantly affect sexual desire. This happens because male libido depends on hormone – testosterone (learn more), production of which is blocked at obesity, moreover in blood increased level of female hormones is observed, which causes lack of erection.
• Excessive exercise is also harmful to men, because they, as well as other factors, may reduce potency, which is quite common among professional athletes. In this case, moderate exercise and alternating them with wholesome rest will help to solve the problem.

According to researches, erectile dysfunction may be caused by several reasons:

• endocrine;
• medicamental;
• local;
• neurological;
• vascular.

All this refers to organic erectile dysfunction form when it is caused by some change or disorder in the body. Much more common is psychological erectile dysfunction form, then normal sexual life is interfered by psychoneurological male features. Besides, almost always problems with erection, conditioned by organic causes, are accompanied with psychological component, which, after root causes, elimination can take center stage.

Endocrine Causes

Endocrine erectile dysfunction causes include primarily hypogonadism – insufficient sexual glands function and low production of male hormone – testosterone. Besides erection problems this state is characterized by increased voice pitch, face and body hair growth cessation, chest, femora and buttocks adipopexia. As a rule, these changes occur at severe human body hormonal system disorder, and in these cases endocrinologist help must be obtained. Fortunately, such diseases are relatively rare.

Other endocrinological erectile disorders cause may be pituitary tumor – one of the most important endocrine glands in human body, which is located in brain. If such tumor secretes hormone called prolactin, no other changes in the body, except for persistent erectile dysfunction, will not be observed. In this case, for diagnostics not only patient’s hormonal state examination is necessary, but also brain computer tomography.

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Medicamental Causes

There are several types of drugs that may have adverse effect on male erectile function. Hormonal drugs that block male sex hormones action (so-called anti-androgens), as well as female sex hormones medications cause serious problems with erection because of all its hormonal mechanism violation. These drugs are usually prescribed only for severe diseases treatment, the most common of which is prostate cancer. In this case, doctors are guided by the principle, when it is essentially necessary to prolong and facilitate patient’s life as much as possible.

However, there are cases when «kind» doctor prescribed powerful anti-androgens (sometimes even called castration drugs) to patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (more commonly known as adenoma). There is no need to say, that these medications are 100% sure to help, but all patients were horrified when realized that they no longer feel themselves «men». Fortunately, erectile function was restored quickly after such drugs were withdrawn.

Other medical preparations influencing erection are related to substances with brain cortex supressive effect. This is mainly alcohol and narcotic preparations, that, besides impact on brain, cause cachexia which contributes neither to erectile function in particular, nor to reproduction function in general. In such cases, to restore normal erection not only drug withdrawal is required, but also properly conducted recovery period.

Moreover, there are certain drugs, according to pharmacological classification of various groups that block peripheral nerve endings responsible for erection. Few people know, for example, that antihistamines, the most famous of which is diphenylhydramine, for this reason must not be applied for more than 10 days. If you are not indifferent to normal erection issue, before taking any prescribed medication ask your doctor if it causes such violations.