Can the chronic inflammation of epididymis affect male fertility?

Epididymitis is a medical condition in which there is inflammation of the epididymis. The epididymis is a series of small tubes attached to the back of each testicle that collects and stores sperm. Therefore, the inflammation of epididymis has a important influence on male fertility.

Epididymitis is a disease with high incidence in young men. When a man is in a hypoimmunity condition, his body can possibly be invaded by some pathogens like E. coli, staphylococcus aureus and streptococcus. At this time, those pathogens go upward in spermaduct and invade epididymis. The epididymitis caused by the pathogenic bacteria are referred to as acute epididymitis, while the chronic epididymitis does not have clear causes. The chronic inflammation of epididymis is usually secondary to chronic prostatitis. In addition, chronic epididymitis is also transformed from uncured acute epididymitis.

The symptoms of chronic epididymitis, which usually are with no obvious external manifestations. According to the internal structure and tissues of human body, chronic epididymitis would induce fibrosis of epididymis and make the whole of that hardening, and might further lead to blockage of the duct of epididymis, infiltration of tissues by lymph-cells and plasma-cells and sometimes enlargement of the diameter of seminal duct thereof. What’s important is that the chronic epididymitis would be accompanied by chronic prostatitis and seminal infection. Due to the epididymis is where the sperms become mature, chronic epididymitis would cause sperm abnormality and aspermia, and if the both sides of epididymis are infected, male infertility would be caused.

Therefore, the patients with chronic epididymitis must be get treated immediately. Otherwise it will seriously affect male reproductive ability.

Antibiotics are usually used in the treatment of acute epididymitis, while the effective of antibiotics on chronic epididymitis is not good. To solve this problem, traditional Chinese medicine doctors suggests that using traditional Chinese medicine to cure the disease. The reason is that the Chinese herbs devote particular care on the circulation of Qi and blood. Diuretic and anti-inflammatory pill was refined from Chinese herbs like Houttuynia cordata, Plantain Seed and Pangolin. Many clinical practices indicated that it has good curative effect on diseases of the male reproductive system which including prostatitis, orchitis, and epididymitis etc.

In addition, patients need to keep good living habits when they take the Diuretic and anti-inflammatory pill to treat chronic epididymitis.