Post Date April, 15 2023
The common name of the civilian is impotence, which is called erectile dysfunction (ED) in medicine. It is a kind of male dysfunction. During sexual intercourse, the penis cannot erect or maintain erectile function to satisfy sexual life.
Penile erection is a huge project, which needs to be completed under the complex nervous and endocrine regulation in the body. It is the comprehensive result of nerve activation, arterial blood supply and cavernous blood storage. Its functional status will be affected by individual spirit, psychology and various social factors. Therefore, if there are problems in the above links, ED may occur. According to the cause of the disease, it can be roughly divided into psychological ED and organic ED, some of which are mixed type.
In terms of psychology, erections may become a problem due to psychological trauma, wrong sex education, emotional disharmony of family couples, and unsatisfactory sexual life environment. Once many people have difficulty erecting, they will have a huge psychological burden, make the problem more serious, and form a vicious circle.
Organic erectile dysfunction accounts for about 50%, mainly including vascular, neurological, endocrine, etc. Vascular factors include arterial and venous ED. Generally speaking, ED caused by vascular factors is mainly manifested by the disappearance of penis erection at night and poor response to intravascular injection of vasoactive drugs.
Neurogenic ED mainly refers to sexual function problems caused by nerve damage, including hypothalamic pituitary tumor, local brain damage, such as localized epilepsy, encephalitis, cerebral hemorrhage and compression, spinal cord injury, chronic alcoholism, pelvic surgery damage to peripheral autonomic nerve, etc.
Endocrine ED is common in diabetes, pituitary insufficiency, testicular injury or dysfunction, or hyperthyroidism, adrenal insufficiency and other diseases.
In addition, some drugs that inhibit sexual function in clinic may also cause ED, such as some drugs for treating heart disease, hypertension and depression.
Finally, men should also understand that with aging, ED is very normal, just like chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes, most of which can be improved through treatment.
