What causes erectile dysfunction?

Nowadays world associations of urologists understand erectile dysfunction as the disability to support an erection during sexual performance, sufficient for satisfaction, in case these disorders proceed at least within three months. So to say, it is a long-term inability to develop or maintain erection. The term 'erectile dysfunction' was originated in the USA instead of "the impotency", which was considered to be too categorical perception of a problem.

According to World Health Organization reports every fifth man on the planet suffers from any form of erectile dysfunction. Erectile dysfunction develops at 10% among men older than 21 years and more than 30% among men, elder 60 years. Due to statistics, only 20% of men, suffering from erectile dysfunction, ask for medical aid and only hardly more than 30% of them receive treatment. Others don't consider erectile dysfunction as an illness, and perceive it as a normal implication of aging, a consequence of stresses and weariness. Thus, more than 75 % of men don't address the doctor with this problem, as a result noneffective selftreatment leads to further disease advance. It is necessary to say that often erectile dysfunction becomes an implication of many serious chronic diseases (diabetes, atherosclerosis, strokes, a multiple sclerosis), therefore it is necessary to solve this problem with the help of various experts, through complex body inspection and correctly prescribed treatment.

Erectile dysfunction - struggle methods

Basically, any action referred on improvement and normalization of any functions of an organism, can be surveyed as an agent of restoration of erectile function. That is why the physiotherapy, hyperbaric oxygenation, magnito - and laserotherapy are often applied with other therapeutic actions.

Unfortunately, very often doctors can not relieve the man from a basic disease, which has led to problems with an erection, in case of organic forms of erectile dysfunction. In such cases treatment has symptomatic character, that is the treatment which only focuses on restoring the ability of man to normal erection. A series of methods is developed for this purpose. We will talk about each of them separately in other posts.

The reasons of erectile dysfunction can be shared into two groups – organic, when there is any disturbance in an organism, and psychological, which are caused only by features of mentality of the patient. Actually, it is more often when these reasons become a combination of any disease or the disturbance leading to erectile dysfunction, and the psychological moments, which don’t allow men to attain high-grade erection. All organic reasons of erectile dysfunction share on endocrine, medicamental, local, neurologic and vascular.

Psychological erectile dysfunction treatment

Often the reason of erectile dysfunction has the psychological character. Treatment of psychological erectile dysfunction should be held by the sexologist-psychiatrist specializing on treatment of psychosex disturbances. Sometimes psychological reasons can be a consequence of the endured problem with erection. In such cases the man consults sexologist after the spent treatment of the organic form of erectile dysfunction to restore such an important function of the organism as soon as possible.

The endocrine reasons

If man's organism produces insufficient quantity of a man's sexual hormone of Testosteron-Depotum, it can also lead to erection disturbance. Simultaneously there can also be such symptoms, as a voice augmentation, the termination of hair growth, adiposity on a breast, hips, breeches. Usually, these are serious hormonal sphere disturbances which require an obligatory endocrinologist's help.

On the other side, a tumor cosecreting the Prolactin hormone can appear in a pituitary body (the gland in brain). Thus, there can be observed none of any other disturbances in an organism, except erectile dysfunction. Apart from endocrinologist’s inspection, it is necessary to execute a computer tomography of a brain for its diagnostics. In this case treatment will be reduced to long-term reception of a medicinal preparation named "Bromocriptin".

The medicamental reasons of erectile dysfunction

Some medicinal and other preparations at long-term reception cause erectile dysfunction. Usually, it is caused by blocking of the nervous terminations providing occurrence of erection. Erection is quickly restored after the stopping of reception of a preparation. The substances causing accustoming (first of all it concerns drugs), lead to erectile dysfunction, as a result of the general influence and disturbances of the basic vital systems. In this case it is necessary not only to stop using a preparation (drug), but also to receive a course of treatment which will restore all broken functions of an organism for erection restoration.

The substances which influence the Central Nervous system:

Alcohol;

Aminazine;

Cimetidine;

Barbiturate;

Haloperidolum;

Heroin;

Guanethidine;

Doxepin;

Isocarboxazid;

Imipramine;

Cannabis;

Cocaine Mebanazin;

Morphine;

Phenelzine;

Protriptyline;

Thioridazine;

Phenoxybenwmine.

Local factors

Local factors leading to erectile dysfunction are various, but all of them conduct to extension of a sclerosis of cavernous tissue of a penis. This tissue reminds a sponge with fine cells. During erection each cell (cavern) is hardly filled with blood, penis is enlarged in sizes and becomes firmer. In case of a sclerosis of cavernous tissue walls of cells stick together, and can't be filled with blood any more.

As a fact, the sclerosis of a cavernous tissue happens with elderly men, that is why they lose ability to sexual intercourse fulfillment. These factors can accelerate an extension of a sclerosis of cavernous tissue:

• Penis injury;
• Frequent tightened sexual intercourses when the man, wishing to deliver the maximum satisfaction to the partner, detains an ejaculation;
• Repeated injections (nyxes) in a penis;
• The transferred priapism (a long spontaneous erection).