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Erection and problems with it

Erection – is increasing of the penis’s volume with the high increasing of its elasticity caused by stretching and filling the cavernous bodies with a blood during sexual excitement, that provides the possibility to have sexual intercource.

Erectile disorder (dysfunction) – is inability to have erection and maintain it at the level sufficient to carry out stable sexual act. Problems with erection doesn’t always accompany aging of the man and may be absent in the old age. With the years the frequency and intensity of ajaculations, the level of sexual tension and necessity in ajaculations are decreased, but the ability to have stable erection often are kept. If morning erections are saved as well as good erection is watched during masturbation – then the man have really stable psychological condition as it plays a great role in development of sexual disorders. With sustained inability to have erection under any circumstances organic cause is suggested as main reason in appearence of erectile disorders. The frequency of ed appearence is about 10% of the men population, but it’s necessary to Read more…

Impotence. Types and causes of impotence

Impotence, also known as erectile dysfunction – is man’s inability to achieve and maintain an erection. Erectile dysfunction may be occurred at any age and may become apparent in many forms. However, according to statistics, about 40% of men aged 35-40 years are suffered from ed.
Inability to achieve an erection leads not only to physical discomfort in the life, but also mates with psychological disorders that contribute to the disease. Locking in itself, considering the problem with potency purely personal matter, men are automatically fallen into the vicious circle of psychogenic problems and it seems impossible to find an exit. Nevertheless, all men should know that regardless of the causes of impotence, it may be cured in 95% of cases. So, let’s try to understand the causes of this very sensitive disease! There are many causes for the deterioration of erectile function: psychological (depression, stress), neurogenic (injury of the penis, surgery on the organs of the pelvis and damage to intervertebral discs, etc…), vascular (insufficient arterial blood flow in the vessels of the erectile mechanism), endocrine ( hormonal disorders), inflammatory diseases of the urogenital system and the pelvic organs (prostate, orhoepididimit, cystitis, etc.), trauma of the penis and etc… There are two types of impotence in field of medicine:

- Organic impotence
Organic impotence is based on the inability of the men to achieve and maintain
erection, the progressive loss of erectile function. The cause of Read more…

Some words about erectile dysfunction

Currently the all world associations of urologists understand the term erectile dysfunction as inability get and maintain erection, sufficient for satisfaction of sexual activity in the case if such sexual disorders last for at least three months. That is persistent inability to achieve erection and maintain it. The term erectile dysfunction is proposed in USA to replace old term impotence implying too categorical perception of the problem.
According to a lot of experiments, approximately every fifth man on the planet has some form of erectile dysfunction. After 21 years it occurs in 10% of men, and after 60 years about 30% of men may be suffered from ed. There are data, showing that only 20% of men suffering from erectile dysfunction, seek for medical help and only 30% from them receive treatment. Others don not consider erectile dysfunction as disease but perceive it as a normal manifestation af aging, a consequence of stress and fatique. Thus, more than 75% of men do not go with this problem to the doctor and poor self-medication leads to the further progression of the disease. It should be noted that often erectile dysfunction is a manifestation of many serious chronic diseases (diabetes, arteriosclerosis, stroke, multiple sclerosis), so to solve this problem, it is necessary a comprehensive survey of men and treatment with the Read more…

The history of viagra

Viagra, perhaps, is the most famous, popular, and promoted product for the treatment of the erectile dysfunction. This is a pill containing citrate of sildenafil. One of the benefits of treatment ed using viagra is that no need of injections into the penis or other medical procedures, you should just eat the pill before sexual intercourse. The essence of the drug is extremely simple and at the same time very effective: viagra can increase the amount of blood that flows into the penis – that’s how viagra helps man to create a natural erection, and that is “simple” and “natural” processes that are the main innovation and product’s advantages as against ed proucys of competitors.

The history of viagra takes start in 1992 in the nice small city of United Kingdom – Sandwich city. During the pharmaceutical research of the new drug substance – “sildenafil citrate” – by the company “Pfizer”, the new drug’s unusual properties were identified. Initially, the drug was developed for treatment of some kinds of heart ailments. Viagra – Sildenafil fistly was to help to increase blood flow to the heart muscle and reduce the blood pressure. But, it was found, that sildenafil citrate doesn’t have significant effect neither on blood circulation in the heart muscle, nor on the blood pressure. At the same time it was found that a lot of patients of male sex, who participated in the experiments, refused to return the sildenafil pills, despite of the end of experiments. And there was one main reason of rejection – all of them pointed the high improvement of erection! Thereby, despite of the minimal impact of new medicament on blood circulation in myocardium, sildenafil caused significant blood flow into genitals of the men. The opening of the Viagra pill became the third greatest accidental discovery in the medicine – after the discovery of X-rays and penicillin. These discoveries were awarded with a Nobel Prize. The same high award was given to researchers who discovered Read more…