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Smoking and alcohol can cause ED. He said: “Alcohol increases sexual desire but decreases a man’s perform­ance.”

Prolonged bicycling -­which puts pressure on a vital artery and nerve near the genitals can also cause the condition. ED can either have mental or physical causes. Pug said that if the patient has normal morning erections, the ED is likely to be psychogenic, or mental, in nature. However, if a man’s morn­ing erections are poor, his erectile problems are prob­ably due to a physical cause. A patient with ED concerns consulting a doctor should expect to discuss his medi­cal history and go through a physical examination, includ­ing a urine test. Png said that properly prescribed medications such as sildenafil (Viagra) and tadalafil (Cialis) can have an 80 to 90 percent successful response rate with relatively minimal side effects. He discourages the use of alternative medicines that claim to boost male virility, especially if they are not from a reputable source.

He said: “These alternative medicines are not worth the risk when ED can be easily sorted out with a visit to the doctor.”

As sexual virility is associated with manliness, problems with erections understand­ably upset men. Erectile dysfunction (ED), also called impotence, is characterized by a man’s inability to have an erection hard enough to have sex or to keep an erection long enough to finish sexual intercourse.

However, one of the most important factors concern­ing a man’s erection is in the mind. Dr Damian Png, consultant urologist at Singapore’s MD Specialist Healthcare, said: “The brain is the biggest sex organ.

He explained that the brain processes all senses such as the tactile feel of skin or silk, the scent of perfume, melody of music and suggestive sen­sual visual stimuli.

These signals are then sent down the spinal cord and via nerves to the penis, which fills up with blood as a result of blood vessels opening up on stimulation. The penis gets rigid and becomes erect.

An erection thus requires the interaction of a man’s brain, nerves, hormones and blood vessels. Png said common causes of ED include problems related to blood vessels and nerves, such as diabetes, decreased male hormones due to aging and painful intercourse due to a crooked penis. He said that some medica­tion, such as antidepressants and those for blood pres­sure or prostate enlargement conditions, could also cause impotency problems.

Symptoms of prostate cancer can be or is not in a man with this condition. Since prostate cancer is more common in older people there are people who die of illness or other causes.

For men have symptoms of prostate cancer, the communities are everyday urination, the increase in the trend for urination at night, the difficulty of maintaining a regular urine, painful urination and blood in the urine. Prostate cancer can also lead to problems of sexual function, such as the difficulties of erection and ejaculation painful. If the cancer has on the spine, which can squeeze the spinal cord, leading to a weakness in the legs and urinary incontinence and fecal incontinence.

The symptoms of prostate cancer are very similar to other diseases of the prostate such as benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) and prostatitis. If the cancer is detected, the first step, the patient is a better treatment and the preservation of the status. Several methods for the detection of prostate cancer in recent years, and two of the most common are the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood and affect rectal (TR).

If a patient has a condition of the prostate, PSA is more freely in the blood at a level where it can be easily identified. PSA value of 4 ng / ml is considered normal, while the 4-10 ng / ml as an intermediary. But in some cases, the men with prostate cancer remains a low PSA. In this case, a rectal examination is often carried out to determine the results of the PSA test.

DRE is a process, the doctor inserts a glove, lubricated finger in the rectum to view the size, shape and texture of the prostate and to determine any irregularities. Other factors can cause high PSA in the blood of a man and the cause of irregularities in the prostate.

Evidence of cancer is only recommended if one of the symptoms of prostate cancer is the patient experience.