What is bacterial prostatitis?
Bacterial prostatitis means you have an infection of your prostate gland. There are two types of bacterial prostatitis - acute (sudden onset) and chronic (persistent). (Another leaflet deals with non-infective prostatitis which is also called chronic pelvic pain syndrome.)
What is the prostate gland?
Only men have a prostate gland. It lies just beneath the bladder. It is normally about the size of a chestnut. The urethra (the tube that passes urine from the bladder) runs through the middle of the prostate. The prostate helps to make semen, but most semen is made by another gland nearby (the seminal vesicle).
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