Is a Prostate infection always and STD or STI?

Is a Prostate infection always and STD or STI?If you get a prostate infection is it always the result of an STI or STD? Can there be any other source of the infection?

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STDs do not cause prostate infections (or at least only do rarely) It is an infection - just as any other infection. In the majority of prostatitis cases, causes are unknown.

A prostate infection occurs in one of two ways: bacteria from a urethral infection move into the prostate or infected urine moves into glandular prostatic tissue.

Any type of bacteria, fungus, virus can lead to a prostate infection. So in theory, if you have have a STD, the bacteria could cause a prostate infection if it gets to the prostate;of course, if you have a urinary tract or bladder infection (not caused by a STD), that could also lead to a prostate infection.

I would not get too freaked out that you have a prostate infection; the cause is most likely not a std. In addition, it is estimated that 1/2 of ALL men will have a prostate infection sometime in their lives (it is kind of the same as a UTI in women)

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